Sabastian Sawe has always had a propensity to surprise. Having never competed on the road, the Kenyan began the 2022 Seville half marathon as a pacemaker, proceeded to drop everybody within the first 10km, and carried on to claim victory in a course record time. Running the second-fastest marathon debut …

'My husband might give up work to care for our kids' - nursery bills in Wales highest in Britain Mum-of-two Charlotte Seddon says she and her husband might have had more children if it wasn't for the high cost of childcare in Wales. "We would have had the children closer …

Babies among those tied up and allegedly abused in Indonesia childcare centre Warning: this piece contains descriptions of alleged child abuse. For years, Noorman had entrusted his two young children to Little Aresha, a daycare centre near his home in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta which advertises its well-equipped facilities …

Sarah, not her real name, had £20,000 stolen in an investment fraud so sophisticated it was 17 months before she discovered it was a scam. Lloyds bank initially told her there was a 13-month time limit on reporting scams so it would only refund her £1,000. Within a day of …

In mid-2025, frustration boiled over for Cedrik Sixtus. Finding his Spotify playlists increasingly sprinkled with tracks he suspected were AI generated, the Leipzig-based software developer built a tool to automatically label and block them from his listening. He uploaded his Spotify AI Blocker to a couple of code-sharing websites, where …

'United King Don' and 'PM battles to block sleaze vote' Almost all of the front pages carry photographs of King Charles III and Queen Camilla meeting US President Donald Trump at the White House, at the start of their state visit to the US. The Daily Mirror focuses on hopes …

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have arrived in the US at the start of their four-day state visit to the US - the first since Queen Elizabeth II's state visit in 2007. The trip, which comes as the US approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence from Britain, is …

Melania Trump has criticised late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over a joke in which he called her an "expectant widow" just days before a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner she attended with the president. The first lady called Kimmel's remarks "hateful and violent", urging his network, ABC, to …

A man has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder more than 20 years after the fatal ambush shooting of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay. Jay Bryant, 52, changed his plea on Monday to guilty, telling a judge that he helped others get into a building to ambush and kill Jay …

A 21-year-old man is going on trial in Austria charged with planning and preparing a terrorist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in August 2024. The Austrian man, named only as Beran A. , has been charged with terrorism and other offences and is appearing in court in …