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It was once regarded as a non-job. But the election for Angela Rayner’s successor as deputy Labour leader threatens to plunge the party into a new civil war. The contest, whenever it happens, could potentially be the most divisive since the bitter left-right split when Tony Benn challenged the incumbent, …

There are currently limited options to prevent owners who are not providing adequate funding for their club from doing so, whether that is by the leagues, the regulator, or the government. Championship club Sheffield Wednesday have been thrown into financial turmoil under owner Dejphon Chansiri. The Owls are under investigation …

Reuters More than 800,000 Sudanese have fled Darfur, where the landslide occurred, since conflict erupted in 2023 A landslide has killed at least 1,000 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, according to the rebel group The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. Days of heavy rain triggered the landslide on …

Media organisations from across the world have renewed calls for the killing of journalists in Gaza to stop – warning there will “soon be no one left to keep you informed”. The campaign is also demanding foreign media is allowed free access to Gaza and an “end to the impunity …

Laura BickerChina correspondent, Dalian, China BBC Chinese shipyards, among the world’s most productive, are giving the country a critcial edge in the oceans “Socialism is good…” a pensioner warbles into a portable karaoke mic, slightly off-key and drowned out by her friends’ chatter. But they join her for the chorus: …

Jack SilverBBC News, Channel Islands Jim Lake Collection/disused-stations.org.uk Jersey had passenger trains for more than 65 years A Jersey company is hoping to bring train travel back to the island for the first time in nearly 90 years. It would be the first time either of the two largest Channel …

Shares in UK banks have fallen sharply on the back of a report which urges the chancellor to place their profits in her sights in the coming budget. As Rachel Reeves stares down a growing deficit – estimated at between £20bn-£40bn heading into the autumn – the Institute for Public …

Shares in UK banks have fallen sharply on the back of a report which urges the chancellor to place their profits in her sights in the coming budget. As Rachel Reeves stares down a growing deficit – estimated at between £20bn-£40bn heading into the autumn – the Institute for Public …

Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent in Bangkok Getty Images Paetongtarn Shinawatra Thailand’s Constitutional Court strikes again, removing yet another prime minister from office. The country’s notoriously interventionist panel of nine appointed judges has ruled that Paetongtarn Shinawatra violated ethical standards in a phone call she had in June with the …

Jonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent in Bangkok Getty Images Paetongtarn Shinawatra Thailand’s Constitutional Court strikes again, removing yet another prime minister from office. The country’s notoriously interventionist panel of nine appointed judges has ruled that Paetongtarn Shinawatra violated ethical standards in a phone call she had in June with the …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gisele Bündchen is showing off in her latest fashion campaign. The 45-year-old Brazilian supermodel posed in an ad campaign for Italian fashion label Elisabetta Franchi, wearing a zipped-up burgundy leather jacket paired with matching underwear and tights. The photos come just six …

Archana Shukla, Roxy Gagdekar & Garikipati Umakanth BBC News Reporting fromTiruppur, Surat & Veeravasaram Vishnu Vardhan, BBC News Tiruppur, which contributes to a third of India’s exports of apparel to US brands, is gripped by anxiety about tariffs An eerie silence hangs over N Krishnamurthy’s garment manufacturing unit in Tiruppur, …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! When “va-va-voom” Michelle Pfeiffer walked onto the set of “Grease 2,” Maxwell Caulfield knew he wouldn’t be tempted by the sultry starlet. The actor, who starred as motorcycle-riding Michael Carrington, is gearing up to honor his wife, Juliet Mills, at this year’s …

Several bands have pulled out from the Victorious music festival just hours before their scheduled performances, following claims by Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers that they were “cut off” for displaying a Palestinian flag. The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords, and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer …

George Torr BBC News, Derby Derbyshire Police Charles Hartle was detained for a minimum term of 20 years A teenager “obsessed with knives and gang culture” has been given a life sentence after stabbing another man through the heart with a Rambo-style blade. Charles Hartle, 18, delivered a single blow …

Chinese ambassador to India Xu Feihong has said that Beijing “firmly opposes” Washington’s steep tariffs on Delhi and called for greater co-operation between India and China. Xu likened the US to a “bully”, saying that it had long benefitted from free trade but was now using tariffs as a “bargaining …

Sudan’s army has denied bombing a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy taking aid to a famine-hit area in the country’s Darfur region. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had blamed the army for Wednesday’s air strike in the town of Mellit, which is under RSF control. The WFP did not …

There’s a persistent belief that in order for sharks to breathe underwater, they must keep on swimming. While this is partly true for a few species, the myth likely stems from how certain types of fishes (bony fish, if you want to know) need to breathe through constant motion, inhaling …

BBC “Migrant hotels facing closure” headlines the Daily Telegraph after a High Court ruling “threw government’s asylum plans into turmoil”. The broadsheet also writes US President Donald Trump has promised “air support but no boots on the ground” to Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Elsewhere on the page, reports …

All eyes were on Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as they met for the first time in more than six years, the Russian president visiting the US for high-stakes talks anticipated beforehand to potentially shape the war in Ukraine. The two leaders greeted each other with a handshake after stepping …