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April 18, 2024

Lives 'destroyed' by abuse unchecked in care homes

Predatory staff who target vulnerable adults in care homes are free to move jobs unchallenged, The Independent can reveal, as almost 10,000 incidents of sexual abuse have been recorded in the past three years.

4 mins

Lords back Afghan heroes and block PM's Rwanda bill

A defiant House of Lords has refused to cave to ministers and sent Rishi Sunak's flagship Rwanda plan back to the Commons with two key demands.

3 mins

Netanyahu rejects Cameron call for restraint over Iran...

....saying Israel will decide for itself how to respond to attack

3 mins

Starmer accuses the PM of 'smears' in Rayner tax row

Sir Keir Starmer mounted his strongest defence of Angela Rayner yesterday, accusing “billionaire” Rishi Sunak of “smearing a working-class woman” during the ongoing row about her former living arrangements.

3 mins

Tory party investigates MP over misuse of donor funds

A Tory MP is being investigated by the party following claims he misused campaign funds.

2 mins

Should the rise of national conservatives be a concern?

Order has been restored to the National Conservatism conference in Brussels, just in time for the politicians, sympathetic journalists, academics and others of the hard-right to welcome their poster boy Viktor Orban.

6 mins

Phone-hacking case settled by actor for ‘enormous sum'

Hugh Grant has settled with the publisher of The Sun for “an enormous amount of money” after being advised he risked being liable for £10m in legal costs if his case proceeded to a trial.

2 mins

Man who hid girl under bed in kidnap plot dies aged 54

A man who kidnapped a nine-year-old girl in a case that gripped the nation 16 years ago has died from cancer in hospital.

2 mins

Marten a victim of class prejudice over accidental death of baby, court told

Lawyers for aristocrat Constance Marten claim she is a victim of “nasty class prejudice” as they insist her baby’s death while on the run was a tragic accident.

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Home Office attacked over sex offender expulsion delay

An Iraqi sex offender who wants to return to Iraq has been waiting to be deported for three years due to Home Office failures, an MP has said.

1 min

Junta ready to use Suu Kyi as human shield, son fears

Kim Aris questions the motives behind Myanmar’s military moving his 78-year-old mother from jail to house arrest

3 mins

World's biggest election

Indians will head to the polls for a weeks-long vote to elect their new PM as incumbent Narendra Modi seeks third term

6 mins

Strike on flat kills at least 17 as Ukraine requests support

At least 17 people have been killed after three Russian missiles slammed into a busy area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded for more air defences to protect civilians.

3 mins

Big Apple jurors worming out of Trump trial selection

New Yorkers’ busy lives are under the microscope in Donald Trump’s hush-money case, as potential jurors have been bringing up their jobs, their political views, their busy schedules and even their dogs during jury selection in the Manhattan courtroom.

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Cavill's embrace of chivalry is all a bit strange in 2024

The Superman actor apparently ‘stands up every time a lady walks into a room' - a kind gesture but also one that whiffs of sexism, writes Oliver Keens. Isn't all this a tad outdated?

4 mins

'It was built into the story that we'd have sexist trolls'

The 'She-Hulk' star Tatiana Maslany talks to Tom Murray about Marvel fan misogyny, her part in the actors' strike and what she thinks about the recent revelations around kids' TV

5 mins

How tragedy struck the cult group of rave and baggy

They were the \"southern Happy Mondays\": a gang of north London scruffbags who burst out of late-Eighties British clubland, perfectly formed to fit with the then-dominant culture, at the sweet spot where acid house met baggy.

10 mins

MADE IN BRITAIN

With 62 screens and 31 hours of footage, John Akomfrah's 'Listening All Night to the Rain' is a visual feast exploring the UK experience, writes Mark Hudson at the Venice Biennale

4 mins

Stubborn inflation rate kills off interest rate cut for now

The inflation genie has given warning that it isn’t quite ready to return to its bottle, sharpening the Bank of England’s interest rate dilemma.

3 mins

Gunners fail to raise game again in meek performance

Bayern Munich win 3-2 on aggregate

3 mins

Man City treble dreams killed by kings of Europe

Real Madrid won 3-4 on penalties, 4-4 on aggregate

3 mins

After five years stuck in the pits, China gets back in gear

A lot has happened since Formula One last visited China. Back in April 2019, the sport was celebrating its 1,000th race as Lewis Hamilton won for a sixth time at the Shanghai International Circuit at the start of a season that would see him win a sixth world championship. Mercedes’s Valtteri Bottas and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel were the other drivers on the podium.

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