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British version of the topical US comedy show will air live on Sky One and will be written in the week before broadcast Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed have been named as the first three guest hosts of the UK spin-off of Saturday Night Live. The first episode of the long-awaited British version of the US late-night comedy show will air live on Sky on 21 March. Continue reading...

Trustees approve Trump’s $257m ‘revitalization project’ to remake DC arts institution that president has taken over Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Kennedy Center board of trustees unanimously voted on Monday in favor of a controversial plan to temporarily shutter the arts institution for renovations , rubber-stamping a $257m project initiated by …

Ten million people left without power in latest of outages that sparked violent protest last weekend Cuba’s national electric grid has collapsed, the country’s grid operator has said, leaving approximately 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system. The grid operator, UNE, said on social media on Monday that it …

Energy minister says it will take ‘some time’ for extra supply to reach regional areas. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The NSW government will today introduce measures it says will toughen penalties and lead to more prosecutions for hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community. They include a new offence which responds to a series of attacks reve…

Time is running out to find agreement on areas such as tuition fees EU citizens would pay in Britain and rules for food safety The EU is hoping to urgently reboot talks on the “reset” of relations with the UK as negotiations are in danger of foundering before a planned July summit. At a public meeting of the EU-UK parliamentary partnership assembly in Brussels, the European Commission vice-presid…

PM refuses to be drawn into wider conflict as Germany and Italy defy Trump’s call to help reopen strait of Hormuz Middle East crisis – live updates Keir Starmer has insisted that the UK will not be drawn into the wider war in the Middle East as European leaders ruled out sending warships to the strait of Hormuz . In his clearest signal yet of the UK’s divergence from Donald Trump’s attack on Iran…

University of Kent students queue for antibiotics and have exams moved online as officials try to control outbreak On Monday morning, nine days after a night out at Club Chemistry, a nightclub in Canterbury, Joe Bradshaw realised he had been linked to the meningitis outbreak that has killed two people, a university student and a sixth-former, in the city. He ran through the week in his mind, begi…

Deaths of student and sixth-former named as Juliette announced as long queues for antibiotics form at Canterbury campus Cases of invasive meningitis have been confirmed at the University of Kent and three schools in an outbreak that has killed two young people and left 11 others in hospital. One of the young people to have died was a student at the University of Kent, while the second was a sixth…

Bovino was demoted in January as head of controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Gregory Bovino of the US border patrol, who was demoted in late January as the public face of the controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis , says he is retiring at the end of March. Bovino announce…

Wiles, 68, praised by president as ‘one of the strongest people I know’, to continue working while having treatment Susie Wiles , the first woman to serve as White House chief of staff, has been diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer but plans to continue working while undergoing treatment. The 68-year-old revealed on Monday that the illness had been detected in the past week. Both she and Dona…

Carie Hallford, 48, whose ex-husband Jon received 40-year term, pleaded guilty to defrauding grieving families Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A former Colorado funeral home owner who helped her ex-husband hide nearly 200 decomposing bodies in a building was sentenced Monday to 18 years on a federal fraud charge, nearly the maximum allowed under the l…

Effective closure of strait of Hormuz also affecting Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, which have brought in crisis measures Sri Lanka is introducing a shorter four-day working week to preserve its shrinking fuel and gas reserves, as the Middle East conflict continues to severely disrupt energy supplies in the region. Countries across south Asia are facing crippling shortages of fuel and LPG gas, w…

Ukrainian president’s visit coincides with deadline for Roman Abramovich over proceeds from £2.5bn Chelsea sale Middle East crisis – live updates Keir Starmer will host Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Tuesday as the prime minister warns US-Israeli strikes on Iran cannot be allowed to become a “windfall for Putin”. Zelenskyy’s visit will come on the day of the government deadline for …

Abbas Araghchi demands clarification on reports Saudi crown prince had urged Donald Trump to ‘hit the Iranians hard’ Middle East crisis – live updates Some Gulf states hosting US forces may be covertly encouraging the slaughter of Iranians, Iran’s foreign ministerclaimed on Monday in a thinly veiled attack on Saudi Arabia. Abbas Araghchi demanded clarification on reports that Mohammed bin Salman …

Israeli defence minister says IDF instructed to destroy ‘terror infrastructure’ in southern villages Israel’s announcement on Monday of a ground campaign in new areas of southern Lebanon is fuelling fears of a prolonged occupation among hundreds of thousands of displaced Lebanese. Concerns intensified after Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, drawing comparisons with Gaza, warned displaced Le…