What is happening with Harry’s six High Court claims?

Fall gets its official start this weekend in the Northern Hemisphere

Mr Biden has a 12-point lead over former president Donald Trump in a new poll from CNN

Scientists believe rare rescue is a sign that the fearsome reptiles may be capable of compassion

Updated models bring titanium design and improved cameras

One rescue shelter said it had to turn down an average of 15 XL Bully dogs a week

Watch live as Pope Francis arrives in Marseille for a two-day visit on Friday, 22 September.

Ex-president’s promise to find national consensus is unpalatable for conservative culture warriors

The batter has switched focus to his next duel.

On eve of party conference, leader says he feels a heavy responsibility to help get Conservatives out of powerEd Davey is to pledge a £5bn-a-year guarantee of free care packages for all in England as the Liberal Democrats gather for their first in-person conference since 2019.Desperate to translate recent byelection successes into a mass haul of parliamentary seats, the Lib Dem leader plans to use the event in Bournemouth, which starts on Saturday, to become the first of the major UK political parties to set out a suite of specific policy ideas. Continue reading...

No complete examples of the plane remain, but one that crashed in 1944 is being painstakingly reconstructedThe process is painstaking, fraught with difficulties and highly sensitive, but after a half-century wait, a labour of love to rebuild a “missing link” in the UK’s military aviation history is coming to fruition.Laid out on the floor of a cavernous hangar at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Somerset, the ghostly silhouette of a Fairey Barracuda torpedo and dive bomber fuselage is taking shape and over the next 10 years visitors will be able to watch as the plane is completely rebuilt.Barracuda Live: The Big Rebuild opens to visitors from Friday 22 September and the experience is included with a museum ticket. Continue reading...

After decades of chaos, what Andy Burnham and campaigners have achieved could be a blueprint for the rest of the UKCat Hobbs is the founder of We Own It, which campaigns for public ownership of public servicesAfter nearly 40 years of Thatcherite deregulation and privatisation, the buses in Manchester are back under public control. On Sunday, 50 Bee Network electric buses will take their first journey across Bolton, Wigan and parts of Salford and Bury, with the full rollout across Greater Manchester scheduled to be complete by January 2025.Andy Burnham, the mayor of Manchester, should be proud. He faced down his critics, and stood firm against the immense pressure of the private bus operators who challenged his decision but failed to overturn it in the courts. The role of local campaigners Better Buses for Greater Manchester in this result must also be recognised; they clearly made the case for why public control would improve services and put pressure on Burnham to go through with his campaign promise. Thanks to them, the chaos of bus deregulation in the city will finally come to an end.Cat Hobbs is the founder of We Own It, an organisation that campaigns for public ownership of public services Continue reading...

It’s rich, witty and looks exquisite. This vibrant, lively, 70s-set series about a sex mag is huge amounts of fun – and deserves a gigantic fanbaseWhen Minx was shooting the finale of this second season, it received the news that its then home in the US, HBO Max, was going back on its renewal and was dropping the show. It looked as if this vibrant and lively 70s-set sex-mag comedy, which never quite seems to have found the audience that it deserves, was dead in the water. But another US network, Starz, threw it a lifeline, and here it is, thrusting its “queen of dicks” Joyce Prigger back into the spotlight.By 1973, Joyce (Ophelia Lovibond) has turned a pornographic publisher’s pet project into the bestselling new women’s magazine in the US, with a two-year waiting list for advertisers to tout their wares in its pages. As season one ended with publisher Doug (Jake Johnson) handing ownership of the magazine to Joyce, the first job at hand is to get the old band back together. Though they can barely make it through a minute without bickering, Doug and Joyce work best when they’re a duo, provoking each other and being annoyed at each other’s shortcomings. One of the show’s many clever decisions is to make Joyce a bit of a prude, still tied up in the academia of her feminist studies at university, even if she’s having to highlight the witticisms of famous women by slotting them into a calendar full of nude men. (“It pulls focus from the schlongs!” argues Doug.)Minx season two is on Paramount+ Continue reading...

Crushed-up chocolate sandwich biscuits provide the foundations for what might just be the ultimate creamy fridge cakeBourbon biscuits provide a really good foundation when crushed and layered in a dessert. One of the great parts of preparing a chocolate mud pie is its adaptability to suit the dish at your disposal: you can make it in a round pie dish or large deep bowl; I even tried this in a rectangular pie dish and it worked well. I particularly like this dessert for gatherings, where it can be casually placed on the table and generously served with a large spoon. It requires minimal effort but delivers maximum flavour. Don’t hesitate to generously season with salt – it works! Continue reading...

Kobbie Mainoo has not featured for Manchester United this season due to injury but he looks set to play his way into Erik ten Hag's side as soon as he returns to fitness

On the eve of the Liberal Democrat conference, Sir Ed told The Mirror the policy would help people in England struggling with 'really high costs' of social care

Lisa Cameron is facing a challenge to remain the SNP’s candidate in East Kilbride after she criticised how the party handled a complaint against former chief whip Patrick Grady

Staff were seen gathered in a circle in a touching moment.

The lifeless bodies of Dr Ruth Alamilla Olguin and her daughter Maggy Alamilla were found hours after they were abducted yesterday

A South Carolina man has gone viral for an amusing interview with a local news station after he claimed to have heard an F-35 jet crash close to his home.

Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou has a decision to make at centre-forward for Sunday's visit to Arsenal.

Across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies meet on the sidelines of the United Nations while world leaders gather at the annual General Assembly

The Duchess of Sussex was seen grooving and clapping to Sam Ryder's performance at the Invictus Games last weekend, with the former actress looking as though she was really enjoying herself

A 'serious weapon' was also taken off the streets, police said

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is "at the cusp” of a historic breakthrough leading to a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia

Democratic chair of powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee is subject of lengthy federal probe

Police said they met the suspect on the roof of the 225-meter-tall skyscraper.

He’s clearly got a cheeky personality.

Royal Court, LiverpoolJames Graham’s funny and violent TV adaptation belies a sensitive study of male mental health, as right-wing economics hits a group of road layers’ livesThe emotional high point of Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff is the funeral of George Malone. The death of this retired Liverpool docker is powerful not only because he is the one uncomplicatedly good character in the 1982 series, a masterpiece of television drama, but because he is a figurehead of socialist values. In a drama about the debilitating effects of unemployment, George symbolises the time before right-wing economics laid waste to working-class pride.Playwright James Graham rightly places the scene at the culmination of his powerful stage adaptation for the Royal Court and Stockroom. But he also does something clever with it. As the unemployed labourers congregate to remember George (an excellent Andrew Schofield), Graham overlays the liturgy of the Catholic funeral mass with the banal call-and-response questions of the dole office. Suddenly, the scriptures of church and state look as formulaic as each other.At Royal Court, Liverpool, until 28 October Continue reading...

Four Chelsea players are in a race to be fit for Sunday’s home Premier League match against Aston Villa.

A United Methodist Church court has acquitted a California bishop of all charges in the first trial of one of the church’s bishops in nearly a century

The 50-year-old, originally from Ethiopia, was arrested last month and could face the death penalty if convicted of espionage

Tottenham head coach Ange Postecoglou has insisted his side's performance is more important than the result in Sunday's north London derby, as he vowed not to abandon his ultra-attacking approach against Arsenal.

Lawson looks likely to lose out on a 2024 AlphaTauri seat to Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda despite his fine start to life in F1, though Williams could offer him a second chance

Savings from a curvier, less fast line need serious consideration as it would be a colossal waste to stop at BirminghamEverybody, supporters and opponents alike, used to agree on one point about HS2: it would be a colossal waste of money to build a fast railway that would run only between Birmingham and London.Even in the rose-tinted world of 2012, before the project’s projected costs exploded from £33bn, the government’s economic appraisal said the whole Y-shaped design, to Manchester in the west and to Leeds on the eastern leg, would be needed to make the cost-benefit ratios work. The logic was obvious: if the chief beneficiary is supposed to the north of England, you don’t build only the southern half. Continue reading...

Captain Ivan Kovgan, 52, was gunned down in the disputed Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where he was seconded as deputy commander of a peacekeeping force

Deysel’s yellow card for the collision, with France leading 54-0, was upgraded to red following a review by the television match official.

A new series will see 456 real-life contestants take on challenges from the hit South Korean drama

Actors are reportedly having ‘fun’ together after Malek’s split from Lucy Boynton

The actress showed her week had got better after she was seen taking cover on the Corrie set when filming for the ITV soap was 'rained off'

The reality star makes for a believably bitchy publicist in the 12th season premiere of Ryan Murphy’s campy horror showIn its earlier years, there was something undeniably seductive about the brash build-up and eventised premiere of an American Horror Story season. Ryan Murphy’s gory, goofy anthology would afford much-deserved screen-time to women who had been starved of it elsewhere, from Jessica Lange to Angela Bassett to Kathy Bates, slick, artfully deranged campaigns would play a long game with fans in a way that had previously been restricted to the big screen and even casual viewers would wonder just how far each new iteration would push TV boundaries.But its sheen dulled over time as Murphy’s troupe of actors started to lose its major names, writers started to run out of interesting themes and that once pungent shock value started to grow tired, his relentless prodding more easily swatted away. Interest has once again been piqued however by the 12th season, bringing Kim Kardashian into the fold, a similar level of poppy “but can she?” curiosity that came with Lady Gaga’s involvement in season five. While Kardashian’s acting career is unlikely to follow a similar Hollywood trajectory, (unless Bradley Cooper is a secret AHS superfan) she’s surprisingly fun in an albeit slight role. The problematic reality mogul plays the catty publicist to Emma Roberts’s Oscar-hungry actor, the two easily operating in a world adjacent to their own, in a Rosemary’s Baby-aping setup. Continue reading...

A schoolgirl who tragically died in a suspected drug death has been named as Carly Kilpatrick - her family have since paid tribute following a vigil held in Scotland this week

Andy Farrell’s men top Pool B following bonus-point wins over Romania and Tonga.

Cycling company Shimano is recalling some 760,000 bike cranksets in the U.S. and Canada due to a crash hazard that has resulted in several reported injuries

Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered cartoons at Kent migrant centre to be painted overUK politics live – latest updatesIt was an act of mean-spiritedness that shocked people across the political spectrum. In April, a UK government minister ordered a mural of cartoon characters at a reception centre for migrants to be painted over lest children mistook it as a sign of welcome.But out of adversity has come joy. In response, leading cartoonists have created an uplifting Welcome to Britain colouring book to be given to children arriving in the UK. Continue reading...

Man arrested after scaling 738-feet tower in the City

Staff at 42 universities still plan to strike between September 25 and 29