Decision to cancel the Boulter’s to Bray Swim in Maidenhead was made after records showed sewage had been discharged for 10 hours straight after heavy rain on Sunday night

As John Swinney emerges as candidate for first minister, Guardian readers assess the parties’ records and promises

Hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, was living under a false identity near Paris

In a first, researchers were able to compare records of people who drank polluted water in Veneto, Italy, with neighbors who did not

Survey of 2,000 Americans conflicts with the box-office records being broken for film running well over two hours

Dublin records near-doubling of tax revenue from duties on imports of clothing, food and other goods from Great Britain

Joe Biden wasted no time taking aim at Donald Trump during last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner (27 April), bringing up his ongoing Stormy Daniels hush money trial. The president poked fun at jibes about his age, remarking that he was ...

Alison Hammond revealed how she recently confronted a shoplifter trying to steal her bag. The presenter spoke about her ordeal during a discussion on shoplifting on Friday’s episode (26 April) of This Morning, after it was revealed the crime is at ...

Official UK figures show 33% jump in deaths from alcohol-specific causes from 2019 – the highest since records began in 2001

Former president accused of falsifying business records to cover up an attempt to influence 2016 election

People affected by serious sexual and violent offences can face large fees to obtain written records from their cases

A Nigerian chess champion has played the game non-stop for 58 hours to break the world record. Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa with his marathon attempt that began in New York City’s Times Squar ...

Police gathered outside Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York after a man set himself on fire close to the courthouse on Friday, 19 April. The trial was breaking for lunch when the man self-immolated outside the New York Criminal Courthouse. Th ...

Donald Trump lamented how “cold” it was in the courtroom on the third day of his criminal trial in New York on Thursday, 18 April. The former president and current Republican candidate faces 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a p ...

The UAE has been hit with the most rainfall since records began

City records over 120mm of rain in a day, about as much as it expects in a year as rain floods highways and homes

Once again, Donald Trump made history on Monday, becoming the first American president to ever stand on criminal charges. The former president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in a bid to conceal a hush money payment mad ...

Donald Trump arrived at a Manhattan court for the first day of a historic criminal trial stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star. He will become the first American president to stand trial on criminal charges. Mr Trump has been charged with ...

Former US president becomes first to undergo criminal trial over charges of falsifying business records to hide his affair with Stormy Daniels

Prosecutors say they’re leaning on ‘the bread and butter of our white-collar work’ – falsifying business records