Army chief elected Lebanon’s president
Lebanon’s parliament has elected the country’s army chief as president, ending a power vacuum that has lasted more than two years. Joseph Aoun’s candidacy was backed by several political parties,…
Alarm as skyrocketing flu cases add to NHS strains
Getty Images Flu cases are skyrocketing, causing huge problems for hospitals, NHS England bosses are warning. Last week the number of patients in hospital in England with the virus topped…
Political content on Instagram and Threads ramped up
Threads and Instagram users will no longer be able to opt out of being shown political content from people they do not follow, parent company Meta has announced. The head…
How Elon Musk seized on baseless memo claim to create wave of misinformation
Reuters Elon Musk’s online attacks on former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown over grooming gangs draw on a baseless claim about a Home Office memo supposedly issued 17 years ago,…
Lily Allen to take break from podcast Miss Me? over ‘spiralling’ mental health
Lily Allen has said she is taking a break from her podcast for “a few weeks” because her mental health is “spiralling” and she is not “in a good place”.…
Why are gilt yields rising and how does it affect me?
Getty Images What’s happening in the bond markets? A bond is a bit like an IOU that can be traded in the financial markets. Governments generally spend more than they…
Photos of Los Angeles wildfires show blazes ripping through neighbourhoods
Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images The blaze started in the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, and quickly spread with strong winds and dry conditions A wildfire that started in the Pacific…
Liz Truss legal threat to Starmer over claim she crashed economy
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has sent a legal “cease and desist” letter to Sir Keir Starmer demanding he stop saying she “crashed the economy”. Her lawyers argue the claim…
Russell Brand fined for speeding in Slough and Oxfordshire
Reuters Russell Brand is currently under investigation over allegations of sex crimes against women Actor and comedian Russell Brand has pleaded guilty to speeding. The 49-year-old was caught driving his…
Bitcoin miner’s claim to recover £600m in Newport tip thrown out
During the hearing in December the court heard how Mr Howells had been an early adopter of Bitcoin and had successfully mined the cryptocurrency. As the value of his missing…