July 30, 2024

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner visit housing development, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom - 26 Feb 2024

Angela Rayner clears the way for “council house revolution”

Josh Schlicht | Daily Briefing

Labour’s controversial new housing plans involve 370,000 new builds and major construction in the green belt.

2XMTRY2 Protesters demonstrate against the official election results declaring President Nicolas Maduro's reelection, the day after the vote in Valencia, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacinto Oliveros )

Unrest overwhelms Venezuela as election marred by accusations of fraud

Josh Schlicht | World

The re-election of Nicolás Maduro has triggered calls for revolution in Venezuela and a polarised global reaction.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against army recruitment in Jerusalem on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Israel's Supreme Court last week ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the army,

Ultra-Orthodox opposition to military service is a major threat to Netanyahu’s government

Ran Porat | Israel

The Haredi army draft conflict touches on the very essence of the relationship between the Jewish state and its citizens.

Edna O'Brien by photographer James Davies

Edna O’Brien was a brave and acutely perceptive writer on romantic pain

Adam Boulton | Obituary

The pain that affairs of the heart bring to women’s lives was the great theme running through the Irish writer’s seventy year long career.

Police in Southport following stabbing (via Alamy)

Two children dead in Southport stabbing attack

Caitlin Allen | Daily Briefing

Two children have been killed and nine others have suffered stab wounds after a man went on a knife rampage at a children’s club in the Merseyside seaside town.