News – World and UK

Kemi Badenoch has criticised a Conservative MP’s suggestion she could not head the Tories because she was too “preoccupied” with her children, saying “it isn’t always women who have parental responsibilities”. Kemi Badenoch has criticised a Conservative MP’s suggestion she could not head the Tories because she was too “preoccupied” with her children, saying “it isn’t always women who have parental responsibilities”. Meanwhile, her leadership rival Robert Jenrick also distanced himself […]

Payne, 31, who found fame on The X Factor with the boy band, died after falling from a balcony on the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Liam Payne’s One Direction bandmates have said they are “completely devastated” and will miss the singer “terribly”. Payne, 31, who found fame on The X Factor with the boy band, died after falling from a balcony on the third floor […]

Israel’s foreign minister has confirmed that Israeli troops in Gaza have killed Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war. Mr Sinwar has topped Israel’s most wanted list since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war just over a year ago, and his killing strikes a powerful blow to the militant group. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamas of his […]

The Israeli military said it was looking into whether Hamas’s top leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a military operation in Gaza, while an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians killed at least 15 people, including five children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The military said in a statement that three militants were killed during operations in Gaza, without specifying where or elaborating further. It said the identities […]

The wife of a Conservative councillor who used Twitter to stir up racial hatred against asylum seekers on the day of the Southport attacks has been jailed for 31 months. Lucy Connolly, who is married to West Northamptonshire councillor Raymond Connolly, posted a message on July 29 which read: “Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the b******* for all I care… If that makes me racist, […]

Five children were among at least 15 people killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in northern Gaza on Thursday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israeli military said the strike targeted dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants who had gathered at the site. The strike hit the Abu Hussein school in Jabaliya, an urban refugee camp in northern Gaza where Israel has been waging […]

The X Factor has said Liam Payne will “leave a lasting legacy on the music industry” through his time in One Direction, following his death. The singer rose to stardom at the age of 16 after joining the boy band on the ITV singing competition in 2010 alongside Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Niall Horan, having returned to the show two years after his first audition. Music stars […]

He's died at the age of 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires. Local police said the 31-year-old singer fell from the third floor into the courtyard of the Casa Sur Hotel in the Palermo neighbourhood of Argentina’s capital, before medics confirmed his death. According to police in Buenos Aires, officers were initially […]

Former One Direction star Liam Payne has died at the age of 31, according to local reports. Payne is reported to have died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, local officials said, according to the Associated Press. Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, said on Argentina’s Todo Noticias TV channel that Payne fell into a courtyard of the Casa Sur […]