Battle for London One last push for Hall, but has 'cars and crime' campaign fallen wide of mark?

Paul Icely puffs out his cheeks - and then slowly exhales. He is visibly deflating. \"I thought there might be a few more of us,\" the 67-year-old black-cab driver admits, his eyes darting between the students milling outside Barking and Dagenham college. \"You seen anyone else?\" Icely asks Lisa Prager.

‘America has lost a noble soul: author Paul Auster dies at 77

Paul Auster, the author of 34 books including The New York Trilogy, has died aged 77.

School pays tribute to 'gentle, caring' boy killed in east London sword attack

The 14-year-old boy killed in the east London sword attack was praised as a \"true scholar\", gentle and a gifted footballer, as it emerged he attended the same school as one of the victims of the 2023 Nottingham stabbings.

BBC grinds you down’ over equal pay, female presenters tell tribunal

Four senior female news presenters have accused the BBC of \"grinding down\" women on pay and failing to tackle persistent pay discrimination, at a tribunal court hearing in London.

Boat death Father of girl crushed in crossing tells of anguish

The father of a seven-year-old girl crushed to death on a small boat has said they tried to cross the Channel after being informed his young family would be deported to Iraq following years spent in Europe.

Britain Fresh wave of camps set up at universities

A fresh wave of student demonstrations and encampments was under way at UK universities yesterday in protest over the war in Gaza, after violent scenes on campuses in the US where hundreds have been arrested in a crackdown by police.

‘Have your own experience’: top sculptor pulls plug on gallery audio guides

They are ubiquitous at art galleries across the world: the audio guide telling shuffl ing visitors the full story of what they are looking at and occasionally how they should feel.

Khan says Tories are unpatriotic for 'always trying to do London down'

Sadiq Khan says the Conservatives’ treatment of London is “unpatriotic” and accuses the government of putting obstacles in his way every day of his eight years running the capital.

Hundreds of students arrested at US protests

Police in riot gear have moved to stamp out a weeks-long pro-Palestinian protest movement on university campuses across the US, arresting hundreds of people and clearing encampments, as duelling groups of protesters clashed in Los Angeles.

Explained: how did the Everton crisis get to this point?

Owner made bold promises but the club have this week had to callin insolvency advisers amid huge debts

Key expects ‘slugfest' as England's batting muscle ripples from top

Amidrising tide of Twenty20 run-rates, the defending champions have opted for more aggression in selection

'Defending democracy' The fears behind EU ultimatum to Meta on fake news

Fears that Vladimir Putin is trying to fill the European parliament with pro-Russia MEPs were behind the EU's blunt message to the Silicon Valley owner of Facebook yesterday. It gave Meta just five days to explain how it will root out fake news, fake websites and stop adverts funded by the Kremlin, or face severe measures.

Whitbread to cut 1,500 jobs and sell 126 restaurants

The Premier Inn owner Whitbread is to cut 1,500 jobs in the UK and shut more than 100 struggling restaurants despite announcing a significant rise in returns to shareholders.

'Poised and calm' The young, fresh face of France's far right

A mid the paté stalls wine-tastings and of a country fair, a young politician hailed as the new face of the French far right was jostled by crowds shouting for photographs and handing him tricolour flags to autograph. \"Rockstar!\" shouted one 18-year-old.

Five skeletons unearthed at home where Goring lived in Nazi base

Amateur archaeologists have found five human skeletons missing their hands and feet under the former home of the Nazi war criminal Hermann Goring at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair military headquarters in present-day Poland.

Trump fined 9,000 for violating gag order and warned of jail time

Donald Trump was fined 9,000 yesterday for nine violations of a gag order designed to protect participants in the former US president’s criminal trial in New York as thejudge warned him faced jail ifhe continued to violate the order.

Student protests Expulsion threat at Columbia campus

Tensions at Columbia University are boiling over since students protesting over the Israel-Hamas war inside Hamilton Hall now face expulsion, a spokesperson said yesterday.

Shh! Intimate Ralph Lauren runway show whispers quiet sophistication

In recent years, the settings for Ralph Lauren's runway shows have become something akin to displays of the designer's power and influence.

Running round a Wall of Death may aid astronauts’ fitness on moon

As humans prepare to return to the moon after an absence of more than half a century, researchers have hit on a radical approach to keeping astronauts fit as they potter around the ball of rock.

Two men charged over felling of famous Sycamore Gap tree

Police have charged two men in their 30s over the felling of the famous Sycamore Gap tree last September.

Homeless figures jump by 16% as data shows scale of crisis

The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures which lay bare the scale of the country's housing crisis.

Tory chair won't say if party took £5m more from disgraced donor

The Conservative party chair, Richard Holden, repeatedly refused to say yesterday whether the party had continued to take millions from its biggest donor, Frank Hester, after it was revealed that the businessman had made comments condemned as racist and misogynistic.

‘We are here’ Galloway's Workers party reveals first general election candidates

The former England cricketer Monty Panesar and a former Ukip MEP are among hundreds of candidates who will run under the banner of George Galloway's Workers party in the general election.

Vote to admit women as Garrick members or we quit, Sting and Stephen Fry tell club

The musicians Sting and Mark Knopfler have co-signed a letter with some of London's leading theatre producers, warning that they will be obliged to resign their memberships of the men-only Garrick Club if members refuse to approve a decision to admit women in a vote next Tuesday.

Mental health Khan says cuts to blame for 'preventable' crimes

Too many people with mental health issues who have committed violent crimes have missed out on treatment as a result of cuts to support services, Sadiq Khan has said.

King Charles meets cancer patients on his return to public duties

King Charles told patients he was well yesterday during a visit to a London cancer treatment centre, where he also spoke of the \"shock\" of receiving his cancer diagnosis.

‘Uber ambulance crisis’ forces more people to make OWN Way to A&E

Growing numbers of seriously ill people are making their own way to A&E in what has been called an \"Uber ambulance\" crisis, because 999 response times are too slow.

Importers of EU food say new UK fees could push costs up by at least 60%

Importers of food from the EU into Britain have said that newly introduced post-Brexit checks could increase their costs by up to 60%, pushing up prices for customers and driving some shops out of business.

years’, Sook closes on British edition of Waiting-room staple Reader's Digest

After almost a century in print, during which it became a near-ubiquitous presence in libraries and dentists' waiting rooms, the British edition of Reader's Digest magazine has succumbed to financial pressures, closing down with immediate effect.

First wave of asylum seekers held ahead of flights to Rwanda

An asylum seeker who turned up for a routine Home Office appointment on Monday was detained and told that he is being sent to Rwanda, a charity has said.