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When doctors tried to work out whether Marie Tidball would need a specially designed birth plan, one asked her to lie fully clothed on the bed and spread her legs in the air so they could see how far they could open. The incident was one of several occasions when Tidball, now a Labour MP, … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Welcome Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories before Emily Wind picks up the slack. We’ve got another blog going with all your latest Cyclone Alfred updates – you can find … Read more
A child has died and another has been injured after a car was driven on to a sports pitch in Cumbria, police said. Cumbria police were called at 4.58pm on Wednesday to reports of a collision involving a black BMW i40 and two children on a pitch at Kendal Rugby Union Football Club. The force … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Here’s the latest map of the storm’s forecast track, from the Bom: TROPICAL CYCLONE FORECAST TRACK MAP for Tropical Cyclone Alfred Issued at 4:51 am AEST Thursday 6 March 2025. Photograph: Australian Bureau of Meteorology Share Ben Smee Weather bureau says … Read more
European financial markets have rallied sharply and German borrowing costs have soared after the country’s prospective leaders announced a historic deal to loosen its “debt brake” rule to boost spending on defence. The yield – in effect the interest rate – on 30-year German government bonds rose by about 25 basis points to 3.08% in … Read more
For the second time in weeks, a Canadian icon has emerged as the unlikely victor in an existential battle on the ice. Mervyn Sequeira, an Ontario photographer, was out with his family on a recent morning when they spotted a bald eagle descending towards a frozen lake. Sensing a looming attack on unsuspecting prey, Sequeira … Read more
A Conservative peer has been accused of using antisemitic tropes after saying in a debate in the Lords that Jewish people should pay for a proposed Holocaust memorial in London because they have “an awful lot of money”. Archie Hamilton, who served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher and John Major and was made a … Read more
Syria’s foreign minister has vowed to swiftly rid the country of the chemical weapons remaining after the downfall of Bashar al-Assad’s government, and he appealed to the international community for help. Asaad Hassan al-Shibani spoke during closed-door meetings at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, where he became the … Read more
Donald Trump’s claim in his address to Congress that the US will acquire Greenland “one way or the other” was widely condemned in Nuuk as “disrespectful” and was said to present an “unacceptable view of humanity”. In his speech on Tuesday night, the US president was met with laughs, including from the vice-president, JD Vance, … Read more
Thousands of refugees clashed with police in a Kenyan refugee camp this week after receiving news that their food allocations would be cut because of funding problems. The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, confirmed that four refugees and a local government official had been injured when police intervened to stop the protesters at the Kakuma refugee … Read more