Rachel Reeves is planning to raise taxes, cut spending and get tough on benefits in October’s budget amid Treasury alarm that the pickup in the economy has failed to improve the poor state of the public finances. With the latest official set of borrowing figures out on Wednesday, the chancellor is insisting she will still … Read more
Barack Obama to deliver keynote speech on second night of Democratic national convention Hello, US politics blog readers, and thanks for joining us as we cover the second night of the Democratic national convention. Barack Obama will be the keynote speaker this evening, the theme of which is “A Bold Vision for America’s Future.” Before … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Closing summary We’re now closing this blog – but join us for all the latest speeches, news and reaction from the second day of the Democratic national convention in our dedicated blog: Thanks for following along so far. Here is a … Read more
Laxman Adhikari Thame village was devastated in recent floods Sitting at an altitude of around 3,800m (12,467ft) is Thame, a small Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region. It is home to many record-holding Sherpa mountaineers, including Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first person to climb Mount Everest along with explorer Edmund Hillary. But on 16 August, … Read more
The most powerful person in English women’s football takes a breath, scans the room and seems to pause for reflection. Nikki Doucet, the chief executive of the new company that is now running the top two women’s leagues in the country, has just been asked how it is going and the look in her eyes suggests there’s a … Read more
Six people are now presumed dead after the super yacht they were onboard sank in a violent storm off the coast of Sicily. Divers tried in vain on Tuesday to gain access to the inside of the sunken 56-metre Bayesian luxury vessel, where rescue crews believe those missing may have been trapped. Those unaccounted for … Read more
‘Masculinity is taking action,’ says one organizer. ‘Masculinity is caring for the people that you love.’ Photograph: Guardian Design “Oh, no, no, I think you’re trying to get in contact with my wife.” That’s what a man in Florida recently told an activist who knocked on his door to talk about abortion rights. But the … Read more
From “skinny kid with a funny name” to elder statesman: Barack Obama, the former US president, will be the headline speaker at the Democratic national convention in Chicago on Tuesday – 20 years after he first burst onto the national political scene. Obama, a state legislator from Illinois, was days from his 43rd birthday and … Read more
BBC It is less than a year since we met Jade in Glasgow’s Merchant City to hear her story. She was someone with direct and painful experience of Scotland’s horrendous drug death tally – figures which are rising again, and remain significantly higher than those in the rest of Europe. Jade told us she had … Read more
BBC Giuliana Rossi was seriously injured boarding a train at Clapham Junction Giuliana Rossi was on her way to see A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic when the incident happened on 15 November 2023. Boarding a train at platform 10 at Clapham Junction station, she misjudged the big gap between the train and the … Read more