UK hospitals are using nurses to cover for doctors because of an NHS-wide shortage of medics, raising fears that “substitute doctors” may provide inferior care. Health professionals known as advanced

Many of us are still getting our heads around the price increases and tax tweaks that took effect this month, but you might want to give some thought to next April. Some big changes to pensions, savi

The way Wang Chuqin plays, ping-pong is a physical impossibility. By the time you made it to the end of the first two words of that sentence, Chuqin, the men’s world No 1, has seen the ball, calculate

There is always magic in the air on a London Marathon morning. But this year the event promises to dazzle and soar more than ever. A world-record 59,000 people will take part in Sunday’s race, raising

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Going out: Cinema Mother Mary Out now Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel play a pop star and a fashion designer embroiled in a psychosexual affair in this A24 drama-slash-thriller from the reliably id

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TV If you only watch one, make it … Half Man BBC iPlayer Summed up in a sentence Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd tackles toxic masculinity in a brutal, brilliant drama that leaves you queasy.

Writing from his cell in the Rajai Shahr prison in the northern Iranian city of Karaj, Babak Alipour wanted to tell his friends about those who had already gone to their execution. There was Behrouz

Sean Bowen is champion jump jockey for the second year in a row - and only 10 other men have shared that title over the past 50 years. How many of them can you name?

For a man at the centre of a storm that has rocked the political establishment, Peter Mandelson has spent the week looking remarkably relaxed. Day after day, as MPs have grilled civil servants over wh

Sitting at the back of the public gallery watching Olly Robbins give his evidence to the foreign affairs select committee hearing on Tuesday felt horribly like the summer of 2022 all over again. Back

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A man has been charged with the murder of a 27-year-old woman in London two years ago after being extradited from the United Arab Emirates. Enzo Bettamio, 18, was put on a flight from Dubai to the UK

I’m sitting in the kitchen with my phone on speaker, listening to an instrumental work featuring a repeated piccolo melody, as I have been for the last half hour. At first it seemed to be a compositio

Abby on Charlie What were you hoping for? A different kind of Friday night with good company and a fancy meal! First impressions? Charlie was super friendly and really easy to chat to. What did y

The critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a canopy bridge to cross a road. In 2024, conservationists in the Pakpak Bharat district of North Sumatra in Indo

The dosimeter clipped to your chest ticks faster the moment you step off the designated path inside the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Step back, and it slows again – an invisible line between clean g

Walking into Christine Dawood’s kitchen, it’s impossible not to be drawn to the model Titanic in the centre of the room. Sitting in its own glass-fronted cabinet, the Lego ship is almost 1.5 metres lo

Aaron Ramsey would have been forgiven for putting his feet up after announcing his retirement earlier this month. His was a long and distinguished career, and one which was scarred by injury too. But

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The US said on Friday it had imposed sanctions on an independent “teapot” refinery in China for buying billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil, as Washington and Tehran head into another round of pe

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Hundreds of thousands of Australians gather in the darkness before dawn around Australia to honour those who have fallen. Anzac Day is a sacred day in the Australian and New Zealand calendars, when w

The Post Office is seeking to delay the second Capture scandal case at the Court of Appeal, Sky News has learned. Steve Marston was convicted in 1998 of stealing from his branch after using the fault

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When asked about what he hoped the King's state visit to the US next week could achieve on the row, Weston said he wanted the monarch to persuade Trump to "back down and calm down".

Britain's community of travellers and gypsies say they are facing a fight for survival of their way of life. The days when they could pitch up at the side of the road are gone. Current laws prevent t

The US military announced on Friday that it killed two people in an attack on a boat in the eastern Pacific, part of a series of deadly strikes on vessels in recent months which it claims are targetin

A toddler is pictured having a tantrum in the Oval Office on the Star, after his mother was invited to the White House by Trump. The paper says the president - or "ManBaby" in its words - later "threw

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