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Princess Kate channels her inner-Barbie with striking all-pink outfit

Kate joins school pupils for Chelsea Flower Show’s first children’s picnic Princess Kate has been showing off no shortage of pink outfits lately, royal commentators have noticed. Recently, the Princess of Wales wore a pastel pink pantsuit with a fitted pink shirt of the same shade for a visit to a museum in London. She […]

Whitehall in lockdown after car crashes into Downing Street gates

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video Whitehall has been closed by the Metropolitan Police after a car crashed into the Downing Street gates. Armed police were called to Whitehall this afternoon and say a man has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. […]

Madeleine McCann searches at Portuguese reservoir come to an end

Fresh searches in the hunt for Madeleine McCann have drawn to a close after three days of searching a remote reservoir in Portugal. Briefing tents have been taken down and heavy machinery is being removed from the site. A joint operation by Portuguese, German and British police spent three days scouring the Barragem do Arade, […]

China-backed hackers spying on US critical systems, warns Microsoft

Microsoft has spotted a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group called ‘Volt Typhoon’ targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. On Wednesday, the tech giant said with ‘moderate confidence’ that the hacking campaign was pursuing development of capabilities that could disrupt critical communications infrastructure between the United States and Asia region during future crises. The espionage […]

Biden accused of ‘sitting on fence’ in face of China lab leak Covid theory

US President Joe Biden has hindered the hunt to find out where Covid first developed by “sitting on the fence” when it comes to the China lab leak theory, according to a respected British science writer. President Biden was initially strong on rhetoric regarding the possibility the virus could have leaked from a Chinese research […]

People scramble to decode simulated 'alien' signals beamed from Mars

On Wednesday, Europe’s Mars orbiter sent an encoded message to Earth to simulate a signal from aliens. Sixteen minutes later, it was received by three big radio telescopes on Earth, kicking off a global effort to decipher the cryptic signal. The signal is part of an experiment run by SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) to prepare […]

What Does Russia’s Success in Bakhmut Mean for the War in Ukraine?

Russia has declared victory in its devastating, nearly yearlong assault on Bakhmut, and its Wagner mercenaries have begun to withdraw. Ukraine, whose forces have made small gains on the outskirts, has signaled that it is now focused on making it difficult for Moscow to hold onto the city. Whatever comes next, Ukraine’s setback in Bakhmut […]

U.K. Immigration Hits Record Level, Sharpening a Dilemma for Sunak

Immigration into Britain has surged to a new high, according to data released on Thursday, an unwelcome record for a government that is divided internally about how to manage migration policy more than two years after Brexit gave it full control over who can legally enter the country. The new statistics showed that net migration […]

114,000 Ukrainian refugees arrived in UK in 2022 but some left within months

UK immigration figures have revealed the number of Ukrainian refugees who sought safety in the United Kingdom during the year 2022 numbered a total of 114,000. However, a portion of those who arrived under the Government backed Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and Ukraine Family Scheme visas programmes departed from the country within just a few months […]