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Of 11 seasonal items in Guardian price comparison, six hit highest price in last three months, with some nearly doubling in price in last week The heatwave has triggered a surge in prices for seasonal items, with the cost of one inflatable hot tub nearly doubling in a week, while an industry expert said air conditioning units have risen by about 17% since April. The Guardian looked at the cost of…

Exclusive: Vetting officials also flagged £1m loan when recommending he should be denied security clearance Key questions: did ‘mitigations’ cover links to China and Russia? Peter Mandelson’s associations with senior figures in China, Russia and Israel were among the concerns raised by the UK’s vetting agency when it concluded he should be denied clearance, multiple sources have told the Guardian…

Local authorities deem UK arrivals to be children more than twice as often as border forces, Home Office data shows Young asylum seekers in the UK are more than twice as likely to be assessed as adults by immigration officers than by social workers, according to home office data . Between July 2025 and March 2026, 4,320 initial age decisions made by immigration officials found just 1,363 new arri…

Randy Hubbs died and Nicole Klein was injured after the two collided during a group jump at West Plains Skydiving A skydiver was killed and another injured after the two collided midair during a group jump in Washington state, authorities said this week. The Adams county sheriff’s office said in a statement on Monday that authorities were called Sunday evening regarding reports that “two skydiver…

State attorneys general say their deputies were turned away despite Vance saying crackdown ‘shouldn’t be partisan’ Three Democratic state attorneys general said their deputies were turned away from a roundtable hosted by JD Vance on Tuesday, sowing confusion about what the White House has billed as a bipartisan crackdown on fraud. After attorneys general – including New York’s Letitia James, Cali…

Kenneth Iwamasa pleaded guilty over role in Friends actor’s death from drug overdose in 2023 Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The personal assistant who injected Matthew Perry with ketamine several times with no medical training, including on the day the Friends actor was found dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles residence, will be sentenced on Wednesday. Kenneth Iwamasa, 61, pl…

Former president says disclosure of recordings tied to classified files inquiry would violate his privacy Joe Biden , the former president, has filed a lawsuit to try to prevent the justice department (DoJ) from releasing transcripts and audio of interviews that exposed his frequent memory lapses and helped derail his 2024 re-election campaign. The decade-old conversations with the author of his …

Since Péter Magyar’s election victory he has vowed to reverse withdrawal from court before it took effect Lawmakers in Hungary have voted overwhelmingly for the country to remain a member of the international criminal court, reversing a decision made by the previous government of Viktor Orbán. Wednesday’s vote came days before the country was poised to become the only EU member state not to recog…

One of heaviest days of bombing in weeks complicates US talks with Iran, which insists any peace deal must mean end of attacks on Lebanon Middle East crisis – live updates Israel launched more than 120 airstrikes against Lebanon on Tuesday in one of the heaviest days of bombing in weeks, as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said his military was escalating its offensive against Hezb…

Daniela Klette sentenced to 13 years for crimes committed during three decades of hiding in plain sight A German court has sentenced Daniela Klette, a former member of the Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof group, to 13 years in jail for armed robberies committed during three decades hiding in plain sight. Long Germany’s most-wanted woman , Klette was the last female member of the…

Domestic abuse commissioner ‘deeply concerned’ by move as councils in England and Wales struggle to fund reviews The Home Office has rejected a proposal to allocate government funds for reviews into domestic abuse-related deaths. Nicole Jacobs, the domestic abuse commissioner, said it was “deeply concerning” that local authorities in England and Wales would not receive direct resources to help th…

Agreement averts strike and shows latest impact of AI boom as two more chipmakers join $1tn club Business live – latest updates Employees at Samsung Electronics’s memory chip division are to receive bonuses averaging about £310,000 each through a landmark profit-sharing agreement, as the AI boom drives up chipmakers’ profits. Fears of a strike at Samsung were averted on Wednesday after two unions…

After the initial euphoria of victory, Zoë Garbett prepares to begin running one of England’s most diverse and deprived boroughs For the first time in decades the person sitting behind the desk in the wood-panelled office of Hackney’s imposing art deco town hall is not a Labour politician. Zoë Garbett was elected as the east London borough’s first Green party mayor in this month’s local elections…

Video appears to show divers discovering group sitting on a rock surrounded by flood water, as search efforts continue for the missing Five villagers stuck in a flooded cave in central Laos for more than a week have been found alive, rescuers said on Wednesday, but two others are missing. The villagers entered the cave in Xaisomboun province on 19 May, but heavy rain triggered flash flooding that…

Scientists warn of ‘new reality’ of heat extremes that claim three times more lives than car crashes and 16 times as many as murderers Malcolm Mistry knew it was going to get “very warm, very quickly” on Monday morning but a slow start out of bed delayed his plans for an early game of cricket with his son. It was already 10am by the time the pair arrived at the sun-soaked nets of their local club…