Politics daily briefing: May 15
All the latest political updates from the UK, as Boris Johnson says Ukraine’s Eurovision win is a show of solidarity for the ‘fight for freedom’.
As the blockbuster six-week defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard drew to a close, the courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia burst into spontaneous applause to congratulate the stenographer who transcribed every detail.
What better way to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee than with a terribly British afternoon tea - here are the best places to get one according to Tripadvisor reviews.
Liverpool have been beaten in the Champions League final after a 1-0 defeat by Real Madrid in Paris. The Reds dominated much of the first half with Real Madrid's Thibault Courtois making saves, but it was the Spanish champions who came closest to breaking the deadlock with a goal by Karim Benzema disallowed after a lengthy delay for a VAR check. Brazilian winger Jose Vinicius Junior put Real Madrid ahead in the 59th minute, slotting in after a driven cross from Federico Valverde.
Sergeant Laurence Knight has been suspended from duty following rape charge
Met assistant commissioner will ask Home Office why he was overlooked for top job
The discovery of the bodies of three women inside a Chicago senior housing facility after a brief heat wave this month raises questions about whether officials and residents are prepared for the kind of brutal heat that killed more than 700 people in the city nearly three decades ago
Bartholomew School in Eynsham took second place in the National Reading Champions Quiz run by the National Literacy Trust.
Ted Cruz on Friday claimed that “far more children would be murdered” and “many more” women would be assaulted if the US banned guns. The Republican senator made his comments during the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Houston, less than 300 miles from where 19 children and two adults were killed in a school shooting on Tuesday. “Let me tell you what would happen if they succeeded in confiscating guns, many more people would lose their lives,” Cruz said.
"Hitler never shut our pubs, clubs, you name it , too long to detail . When our civilian populations houses were being carpet-bombed by the Nazis. But Boris did."
The proposed settlement of more than $1 billion as compensation for the 98 people who died in a Florida condominium collapse is far from the largest in U.S. history
‘Why did you come to this convention, to take blood money?’
The courtroom in Fairfax County Court in Virginia witnessed a rare moment of agreement among the legal teams of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
US President Joe Biden will visit Uvalde on Sunday to console residents mourning 19 children and two teachers who were gunned down at an elementary school in the small Texas town.
Antiquated excuses for keeping the sculptures are wearing thin after 12 years of Conservative cultural freezes
The protest followed the publication of Sue Gray’s report into parties in Downing Street during Covid-19 lockdowns.
From jumping into ice-cold water to falling a terrifying 500 feet from a bridge in sub-zero conditions in the Italian mountains, Dianne Buswell calls her time on BBC's Freeze The Fear With Wim Hof "really quite life changing".
A Ukrainian coal miner, completely starved of information, thought he might be able to reason with Russian forces blocking the last good road running out of his war-scarred city on the eastern front.
Two lanes of a motorway have reopened after a crash involving three vehicles.
EasyJet has also announced it will scrap more than 200 flights over the next 10 days.
The Rolling Stones are about to embark on their first European tour since Charlie Watts passed away in 2021.