25 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave Robert Jenrick’s defection to Reform UK features heavily on Friday’s front pages. The former Conservative shadow minister, who was sacked by Kemi Badenoch for plotting against her, has become the “most senior Tory to switch to Reform”, the Guardian reports. Jenrick has called the Conservatives “rotten” and a “failed” party….
Actor Timothy Busfield has made his first court appearance after turning himself in on criminal charges that he allegedly sexually abused two boys on the set of a TV series filming New Mexico, prosecutors say. The Emmy-winning actor, who starred in Thirtysomething and The West Wing, was taken into custody in Albuquerque on two counts…
Joe PikePolitics correspondent EPA On Wednesday afternoon in a large wood-panelled room in parliament, Robert Jenrick was sitting alongside Kemi Badenoch and the rest of the Conservative shadow cabinet talking about foreign policy. “He was honestly very positive and chipper”, says one who was in the room. Within twenty-four hours a sensational leak from inside…
Watch: Machado says she “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has told reporters that she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it. “I think today is…
World champion Luke Littler beat veteran Paul Lim 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals of the Bahrain Masters. On his first trip to the oche since retaining his world title at Alexandra Palace on 3 January, Littler put in a statement performance. The 19-year-old had an average of 106 as he brushed aside 71-year-old Singaporean Lim….
Reuters Rights groups say more than 2,400 people were killed in the authorities’ violent crackdown on protests Families of people killed in the protests in Iran have told the BBC that the authorities are demanding large sums of money to return their bodies for burial. Multiple sources have told BBC Persian that bodies are being…
Facebook via Reuters Erfan Soltani is one of 18,000 protesters reportedly detained over the past three weeks in Iran Iran’s judiciary has denied it scheduled the execution of a man arrested in connection with the country’s recent protests. Norway-based Kurdish human rights organisation Hengaw said earlier this week that the family of Erfan Soltani, 26,…
There were no tears from Mohamed Salah when the final whistle went in Tangier as Egypt fell at the semi-final hurdle. Just a little smile, but one no doubt hiding immense disappointment. Yet again, his Egypt side had failed at AFCON and yet again, they had fallen against Senegal and Sadio Mane, Salah’s ex-Liverpool team-mate….
Vanessa PearceWest Midlands West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford has apologised for providing incorrect evidence to MPs in the Commons Downing Street has said it no longer has confidence in West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford, echoing comments made in the Commons on Wednesday by the home secretary. Other senior members of the…
Paul KirbyEurope digital editor Reuters A Danish air force transport plane arrived in Greenland as European Nato allies deployed to the capital, Nuuk, for joint exercises A small French military contingent has arrived in Greenland’s capital Nuuk, officials say, as several European states deploy small numbers in a so-called reconnaissance mission. The limited deployment, which…