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Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A long-serving University of Sydney academic with severe respiratory and autoimmune conditions is facing the sack after the institution refused to let him continue teaching online, despite medical advice urging them to do so. The university has deemed

It was on our stamps and coins. It was paid for by the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland. So bravo to Kate and Camilla for wearing THAT tiara – a real tribute to Queen Elizabeth II The tiara most associated with the late Queen is a favourite of Kate’s It is significant that Queen

Moment Israel’s ex-PM furiously accuses BBC of ‘lacking moral clarity’ and ‘taking the side of Gazans’ in its Israel-Hamas war coverage – before heated interview with Victoria Derbyshire is abruptly cut off Live feed to Tel Aviv cuts off as ex-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is mid-sentence Israel’s former Prime Minister furiously accused the BBC of

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lieutenant Oleg Kurilsky’s last known words were “I am wounded, I need help”. In March last year, he was fighting in Poposna in eastern Ukraine when he was caught up in a massive Russian artillery bombardment. The shelling

Tory Chief Whip ‘vowed to crush the religious Right’ amid rows over the conversion therapy ban, sources claim Simon Hart advised No 10 to go ahead with ban last week to avoid a party revolt Tory Chief Whip Simon Hart was last night at the centre of extraordinary claims that he had vowed to ‘crush

Moment four ‘Islamic radicals’ are arrested by Spanish police after one obtained dark web manual on how to make Mother of Satan explosive The Mother of Satan explosive was possessed by the 2017 Barcelona attackers Four people have been arrested in Spain in connection with alleged terror offences after one obtained a dark web manual

400,000 pensioners at risk of being hit with shock tax bills a year after they receive their pension, former minister warns More than half a million will be dragged over their personal allowance threshold Someone getting £242 a week will pay tax but it won’t be deducted from pension Hundreds of thousands of pensioners could

Call for cuts after Treasury’s inheritance tax haul hits record £3.9bn Comes as data showed boost in tax revenues resulted in lower borrowing  Inheritance taxes are on course to hit a record high after the Treasury took £3.9billion from the death duty in the first half of the financial year alone. The bumper haul, £400million

Israel releases ‘hostage manual’ found on bodies of Hamas fighters which instructs the gunmen to ‘kill the problematic’ to create chaos as well as ‘violence and terrorism’ Israel says 203 innocent people have been kidnapped and taken back to Gaza  With instructions such as ‘kill the problematic ones’, a hostage-taking manual found on Hamas gunmen

Jeremy Hunt dismisses desperate Tory pleas for tax cuts in Autumn Statement despite government borrowing coming in £20bn below forecasts – as HMRC rakes in an extra 6% Jeremy Hunt dismissed desperate Tory pleas for early tax cuts today despite government borrowing coming in lower than expected. Public sector net borrowing was £14.3billion last month,