To ensure less privileged students are not put off, a more progressive system for repayment of loans is also urgently needed, says former Labour MP Peter Mandelson

Ukrainian forces recapture Russian stronghold in Kharkiv after fighting including hand-to-hand combat

More than three decades after Sean Combs named his label Bad Boy Records, he’s been arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges, accused of everything from arson to kidnapping. As authorities outline the shocking activities alleged ...

Shocking video footage shows the music mogul attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie, as two more women come forward with allegations, reports Andrea Cavallier

New lawsuit filed in New York accuses music mogul of violently sexually and physically assaulting a woman and filming it

The actor said that abortion rights were at the forefront of her decision

Strikes between Hezbollah and Israel are ramping up, fuelling fears of an all-out war

 

‘Whiteness’, low youth engagement and lukewarm pro-Europeanism in some states risks eroding bloc’s founding values, expert says

The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched by the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force into the Pacific Ocean

Lebanon says only US can end conflict, as Hezbollah confirms death of Ibrahim Qubaisi in Israeli attack on Beirut

Exclusive: Education secretary to launch callout for empty classrooms to be converted as part of free childcare plan

Texas man Richard Ozment is accused of killing woman with ‘machete-like’ weapon

It comes as a Lebanese minister warned the country would pay a ‘very big price’ for escalation with Israel

Prosecutors announced new charges against Ryan Routh on Tuesday

 

 

From anger over the winter fuel allowance to a row over freebies, Labour’s first conference in power for 15 years started under a cloud. Did the prime minister’s speech lift the gloom? With Jessica Elgot