The actor and campaigner Samantha Davis, the wife of Harry Potter star Warwick Davis, died after suffering a cardiac arrest hours before a hospital was planning to discharge her, an inquest has found. Davis, who co-founded Little People UK – the dwarfism charity known as “an essential resource for little people and their families” –…
It is difficult to find a term more fitting for the fate of the Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García than Kafkaesque. Abrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported under the Trump administration to the Cecot mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a macabre partnership with the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator”, Nayib…
It has been a fixture of British-Indian dining since it first opened its doors in April 1926 on the day of Elizabeth II’s birth, serving guests over the decades ranging from Marlon Brando to the late Queen herself. Yet despite surviving the Blitz and London’s relentlessly competitive restaurant sector, a dispute with the current monarch’s…
The chief executive of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon, has warned that the chances of a US recession have “increased” in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariffs and that an escalating trade war poses “material risks” for US and global growth. The Wall Street boss said the growing uncertainty over the fallout of US tariffs could…
The former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said an arrest warrant issued against her in Bangladesh over allegations she illegally received a plot of land from her aunt, the country’s ousted former prime minister, is a “politically motivated smear campaign”. Speaking to reporters on Monday, the Hampstead and Highgate MP said: “No one from the…
Bin workers have “overwhelmingly” rejected a deal that would have ended an all-out strike in Birmingham, during which bin bags have piled up in the streets and the city has faced an influx of rats. Negotiations between the council and Unite, representing the striking workers, have stalled for months, and refuse workers have been on…
Six women – including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King – are set to launch into space from a private Texas ranch on Monday morning on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur. The women, who also include Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez, will…
The former Conservative MP Craig Williams is among 15 people, including several other senior Tories, charged by the Gambling Commission for alleged cheating connected to bets based on the date of the 2024 UK general election. Williams was the MP for Montgomeryshire and Rishi Sunak’s parliamentary private secretary, but lost the support of the Conservative…
North-west Italy is braced for heavy rainfall and thunderstorms across the southern side of the Alps, particularly in Piedmont and Liguria. Turin and Genoa are expected to be among the worst affected, with snowfall also likely on higher ground. The region has been forecast to receive 140-160mm of rainfall between Sunday and Friday this week….
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Chinese president in Vietnam to bolster regional economic ties Chinese President Xi Jinping will be welcomed by Vietnam’s President Luong Cuong today as he seeks to strengthen economic ties in south-east Asia amid a trade war with Washington that has caused…
