It's Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil has predicted another six weeks of winter

BREAKING: A protester has cliumbed the Iranian embassy in London torn down the flag of the Islamic regime and raised the Imperial flag in its place. It comes amidst widespread protests in Iran against the regime

President Nicolás Maduro has been captured along with his wife Cilia Flores following strikes in Venezuela carried out by the US under orders by President Trump. Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has confirmed that Maduro is missing & demanded "immediate proof of life"

Brigitte Bardot, singer, actress, sex symbol, '60s icon, and animal rights actist, has died aged 91

Death toll in Bondi beach terror attack rises to 16 with some forty people remaining in hospital with a range of injuries.

UPDATE: Police declare Bondi beach incident as a terrorist attack. One of terrorists 'known to authorities' with possible links overseas. Raid ongoing at a home some 46km from Sydney. IED found in a vehicle nr beach. 12 dead, inc 1 terrorist. 29 others injured

Multiple deaths after shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach, police say, as two "neutralised" . Shooting occurred during Hanukkah event at the beach.

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri

Starmer denies misleading public and cabinet ahead of budget

BREAKING: Zelenskyy fires closest ally Andriy Yermak over corruption probe. While Yermak was not accused of profiting from embezzlement & corruption, he had been accused of stifling anti-corruption investigations.

BREAKING: 2 National Guardsmen dead after shooting, West Virginia governor says

UK did 'too little, too late', leading to thousands more COVID deaths, COVID inquiry finds at the end of Module 2

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Home Secretary Shabanna Mahmood, setting out her Asylum Policy plans, gets angry with the LibDem spokesman and says "I'm the one that gets called a fucking Paki and told to go back home". She is forced to apologise to the House by deputy speaker

Fmr Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity & corruption following her ordering troops to quell protests in 2024. Hasina is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founding president, who was himself assassinated in a coup d'état in 1975.

BREAKING: Agency refuse workers brought in to cover for Birmingham's long-running bin strike have voted to take industrial action themselves over claims of bullying and harassment.

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BREAKING: HMP Wandsworth admit releasing 2 prisoners mistakenly in a week. 24-year-old Algerian sex offender, Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, was released on Wednesday 29th October, & 35-year-old William Smith, was released on Monday, 3rd November within hours of being sentenced to 4 yrs

BREAKING: Manhunt after prisoner mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth prison on 29th October though MET only informed on 4th November. News breaks after Justice Secretary and Deputy PM David Lammy was pressed on whether any further prisoners had been accidentally released

Anthony Williams, 32 of no fixed address, has appeared in court after being charged with 11 counts of attempted murder, following a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening and a separate incident in London hours before.

Valencia President Carlos Mazón steps down after mismanagement of deadly floods in late 2024 which claimed the lives of 229 people. Mazón had faced increasing pressure in the Spanish media and from other politicians in recent days.

Two people have been arrested after a stabbing spree on a train in Huntington, Cambridgeshire. Reports suggest up to 10 people have been stabbed. One suspect was tasered by police.

Britain's Prince Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and ordered out of royal mansion. Extraordinary move by King Charles comes amid swirling scandal over Andrew’s association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

M&S, Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft are among some of the sites and services experiencing problems amid a global Microsoft outage.

Just Stop Oil activists Jennifer Kowalski [left], 28, and Cole Macdonald [right], 22, spared jail despite being found guilty of attempting to deface Taylor Swift's private jet & causing criminal damage. The pair caused damage in excess of £55,810 but Kowalski was fined just £480

Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership election

Plaid Cymru wins the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with 47% of the vote in a record turnout - Reform is second on 36% while Labour comes a distant third. It is Labour's first defeat in the area for 100 years. Turnout was 50.43%

Hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi elected Japan’s first female leader

Many of the world's biggest websites and apps are down due to an outage affecting Amazon Web Services

Israel has accused Hamas of attacking Israeli forces in southern Gaza with the military carrying out airstrikes on the city of Rafah, the first major test of the US-brokered ceasefire.