15+ hour, 43+ min ago  (303+ words) To millions of Persian speakers, the Prime Minister's first name sounds remarkably similar to one of the language's most commonly used obscenities. The word " " transliterated as "kir" " is a vulgar term for a penis, and Sir Keir Starmer has been…...

15+ hour, 44+ min ago  (285+ words) Labour has been accused of "bankrolling" the education of more EU students than British ones, following a decision to rejoin the bloc's Erasmus student exchange scheme. Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Mike Wood took aim at Labour's agreement with the EU,…...

15+ hour, 39+ min ago  (851+ words) Bereaved parents vowed to keep up the fight to stop more tragic deaths linked to social media, after Labour MPs threw out a proposed ban for under-16s. Ellen Roome, whose son Jools Sweeney died aged 14 in 2022, said: "How many more…...

16+ hour, 7+ min ago  (352+ words) Russia has made a direct threat to strike targets across the UK that it believes is helping the Ukrainian effort against Moscow, but experts have named the 19 places considered "safe". Russia and Ukraine have been in conflict since February 2022 after…...

16+ hour, 33+ min ago  (414+ words) The Duchess of Sussex has said she was "bullied and attacked" every day for 10 years on social media and was "the most trolled person in the entire world". Speaking to a classroom of young people involved with the mental health…...

16+ hour, 55+ min ago  (517+ words) Donald Trump has announced on Thursday he has brokered a landmark phone call between the leaders of Israel and Lebanon " which he says will be the first direct contact between the two nations' heads of government in 34 years. The US…...

18+ hour, 35+ min ago  (379+ words) The United Nations' nuclear watchdog has warned that North Korea has made "very serious" advances in its ability to produce nuclear weapons. This comes at a time when nuclear warfare is firmly in the public consciousness, amid ongoing Middle East…...

19+ hour, 18+ min ago  (515+ words) American forces have issued a stark warning to vessels in the Strait of Hormuz to "prepare to be boarded" as the US military enforces Donald Trump's naval blockade of Iranian ports. US Central Command released audio of the warning on…...

21+ hour, 15+ min ago  (441+ words) The Islamic Republic of Iran is poised to execute Bita Hemmati, who is set to become the first female protester to be hanged in connection with the recent anti-regime uprising. Hemmati is amongst an estimated 1, 600 individuals sentenced to death by…...

23+ hour, 47+ min ago  (375+ words) Johanna Baxter MP asked her Labour Party colleague, pensions minister, Torsten Bell MP, at a meeting of the Work and Pensions Committee in March, what assessment the DWP had made of the impact of the change on the health of…...