General news

• Caitlyn Jenner speaks about past suicidal thoughts during first episode of new show I Am Cait

  22-07-2015 23:35
  
  Former Olympic athlete Caitlyn Jenner has admitted that she had suicidal thoughts before she came out as transgender.
  
  Read more

• The BBC is facing its most deadly political threat since its foundation - but its spirit should be revived, not crushed

  22-07-2015 23:00
  John Whittingdale, newly appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, is one of the more devout followers of Margaret Thatcher. As a young man he worked in her office, and was inside No 10 Downing Street at the time of her political assassination in November 1990. He has always been clear that he owes his career to the former prime minister.
  
  Read more

• Suruc bombings: Turkish President accused of not doing enough to help Kurds fight Isis threat across its border in Syria

  22-07-2015 22:35
  A suspected Isis suicide bombing on Turkish soil has plunged the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan into fresh crisis, triggering rioting, mass arrests and the execution of two police officers.
  
  Read more

• Andy Burnham 'would serve under Jeremy Corbyn'

  22-07-2015 22:31
  
  Labour leadership hopeful Andy Burnham has revealed he would serve in the shadow cabinet if left-winger Jeremy Corbyn takes the party's top job.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• American Idiot: The Musical, review: Pulsating Green Day grunge-fest throbs with the energy of a Billie Joe Armstrong gig

  22-07-2015 22:30
  You can say what you like about American Idiot but a feeble Sondheim rip-off it resoundingly ain't.
  
  Read more

• Social robots such as Pepper can help with household chores - but at what cost to privacy?

  22-07-2015 22:15
  
  When most people think of robots, they either think of hulking Terminators or the dumb industrial varieties taking part in a future robot uprising. But there's another class of robot that's also gaining traction – social robots that cost less than £650 and are designed for the home. They are more WALL-E than Terminator, and are meant to be personal companions and even "one of the family".
  
  Read more

• Divorce costs to soar after court fees review

  22-07-2015 22:07
  
  The cost of getting divorced will jump by a third after the Government announced increased court fees.
  
  Read more

• Donald Macintyre's sketch: A realm of almost Confucian abstraction

  22-07-2015 22:07
  
  Everything was in place. The perma-tan. The suit and open-necked shirt. The glottal stop working overtime. (He now doesn’t even pronounce the “t” in “But”.) The trademark pregnant pause which answers a tricky question as eloquently as words. And the walk on to the podium to an ecstatic welcome.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Striking French farmers blockade roads, tourist sites and bridges amid protest over low prices

  22-07-2015 21:55
  
  French farmers laid siege to popular tourist sites and blocked key bridges and north-south motorways for a third day to voice their anger at the prices of milk, beef and pork.
  
  Read more

• Ed Miliband's vanity has doomed Labour for a generation

  22-07-2015 21:27
  
  Those of us who supported Labour when it won elections ought to be angry with Ed Miliband for what he has done to the party. Not only did he fail to win on 7 May, but he has ensured that the party is further away from ever winning again.
  
  Read more

• Ai Weiwei to curate upcoming Royal Academy exhibition after China returns his passport

  22-07-2015 21:17
  
  Dissident artist Ai Weiwei will travel to Britain to personally curate his upcoming Royal Academy exhibition later this year – after the Chinese government unexpectedly returned his passport.
  
  Read more

• Tributes to Jessica Lawson, after France school trip swimming tragedy

  22-07-2015 21:17
  
  Family and friends have paid tribute to 12-year-old Jessica Lawson, who died in a swimming accident on a school trip to France, describing her as "the most beautiful and outgoing girl".
  
  Read more

• Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw: The actor transformed himself with 2,000 press-ups a day

  22-07-2015 21:15
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal slept for 14 hours straight when he wrapped Southpaw. Possibly the most gruelling role of an award-winning, shape-shifting film career, he underwent a punishing regimen to transform himself into a champion boxer.
  
  Read more

• Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw: The actor has transformed himself for the new boxing film

  22-07-2015 21:15
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal slept for 14 hours straight when he wrapped Southpaw. Possibly the most gruelling role of an award-winning, shape-shifting film career, he underwent a punishing regimen to transform himself into a champion boxer.
  
  Read more

• Poppi Worthington: Court overturns baby's 'unexplained death' verdict

  22-07-2015 21:12
  
  Poppi Iris Worthington was just 13 months old when she died in December 2012 and still, nearly three years later, the reasons why remain a secret. This is despite the efforts of several pathologists, a “fact-finding” judgment that remains unpublished, an ongoing Serious Case Review, and a failed police investigation that saw three officers accused of misconduct.
  
  Read more

• Glasgow bin lorry crash man 'punched and shouted at slumped driver'

  22-07-2015 21:07
  
  A binman on a runaway lorry that careered in to a packed street shouted at the driver slumped at the wheel: "You're killing people."
  
  Read more

• Ministers turning to behavioural psychology to tackle policy problems

  22-07-2015 21:05
  
  Ministers are turning to behavioural psychology to tackle some of the most contentious and intractable problems facing the Government, including attempting to cut illegal immigration and countering Islamic extremism, it has emerged.
  
  Read more

• Divorce costs to rise by a third to £550

  22-07-2015 21:02
  
  The cost of getting divorced will jump by a third after the Government announced increased court fees.
  
  Read more

• Jessica Lawson: Pupil Died On School Trip

  22-07-2015 20:54
  
  A 12-year-old British schoolgirl has died in a swimming accident on a school holiday in France. Jessica Lawson, a pupil from Wolfreton School in Hull was among a group of 24 students and three staff visiting an adventure centre in the Massif Central region. Her sister Polly Lawson, who is in France with the family, said on Facebook: "It's a huge loss but we are remembering how beautiful she was and still is and how she was just a joy to know.
  
  Read more

• Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall in battle to avoid being kicked out of Labour leadership contest following Jeremy Corbyn's success

  22-07-2015 20:48
  The two women vying to become Labour leader are locked in a fight to avoid being knocked out of the contest following a surprise surge in support for the left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn.
  
  Read more

• Ministers preparing to slash subsidies paid to households which install solar panels

  22-07-2015 20:38
  
  Ministers are preparing to slash the subsidies paid to households which install solar panels on their roofs in an attempt to rein in runaway spending on renewable energy schemes.
  
  Read more

• Anniversary Games: Sub-10 second men aim to give Usain Bolt run for his money in the 100 metres

  22-07-2015 20:33
  
  The biggest draw of this weekend’s Anniversary Games at London’s Olympic Stadium is a man who ran a season’s best of 10.13 seconds for the 100 metres on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach all the way back in April.
  
  Read more

• Suruc suicide attack: Bombing shows that Turkey is being sucked into the violence in Syria

  22-07-2015 20:15
  
  The suicide bombing which killed 32 and wounded 104 young people in the Turkish town of Suruc shows the increasing degree to which the political agenda in Turkey is dictated by its involvement in the war in Syria. The victims of the blast were on their way to the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani to build a children’s playground and day centre.
  
  Read more

• Jean Charles de Menezes: Family hold 10-year memorial service outside Stockwell tube station

  22-07-2015 20:07
  
  Ten years since Jean Charles de Menezes' death, family and campaigners held a memorial service outside Stockwell underground station where he was accidentally shot by police officers. The Brazilian national was shot on an underground train at Stockwell station in South London on 22 July 2005. Police incorrectly believed he was Hussain Osman, a man involved in a failed attempt to bomb the city's transport infrastructure two weeks after the 7/7 bombings.
  
  Read more

• Bob Smith: The strange case of the CIA agent that never was – and his hoard of 1,200 firearms

  22-07-2015 20:06
  
  Was Bob Smith a super-spy or a super-fantasist? That was the question many in Los Angeles are trying to answer after the puzzling death of man who kept a hoard of more than 1,200 firearms and two tons of ammunition at home.
  
  Read more

• Banned chemical 'may be affecting porpoise reproduction'

  22-07-2015 20:00
  
  British porpoises may be struggling to breed because of a banned chemical pollutant, research suggests.
  
  Read more

• NHS CT scans can damage patient DNA and kill cells, research finds

  22-07-2015 20:00
  
  CT scans of the sort used throughout the NHS can damage DNA and kill cells, a study has found.
  
  Read more

• Business live: Anti-austerity protest in Athens ahead of bailout vote

  22-07-2015 19:57
  
  MPs in Athens will vote on a second package of economic measures tonight, as the ECB provides €900m in emergency liquidity to Greece’s banksLatest: Anti-austerity rally underwaySummary: Crucial vote tonightECB raises ELA by €900mEC: We’re making swift progress towards bailout dealIntroduction: Another test for Alexis Tsipras
  Here’s what Greek MPs will vote on tonight 6.57pm BST The debate in the Greek parliament hasn’t started yet. It should begin in around 30 minutes, but a vote is
  
  Read more

• Human rights for cats and dogs: Spanish town council votes overwhelmingly in favour of defining pets as 'non-human residents'

  22-07-2015 19:57
  If the Magna Carta marked the birth of human rights, today we may have reached its apotheosis. In Spain, or at least in one Spanish town, politicians have just voted overwhelmingly in favour of creating what are effectively human rights for dogs and cats.
  
  Read more

• Key Westminster Figures In Child Abuse Papers

  22-07-2015 19:53
  
  Key Westminster figures from the 1970s and 1980s have been named in a series of Government child abuse documents. After months of requests from Sky News the Government has revealed that papers exist that relate to Margaret Thatcher's former parliamentary secretary the late Sir Peter Morrison, former Home Secretary the late Leon Brittan, former diplomat the late Sir Peter Hayman and former minister the late Sir William van Straubenzee. In January Sky News forced the Government to release the
  
  Read more

• Dylann Roof to be charged with federal hate crime in Charleston church massacre

  22-07-2015 19:49
  
  Dylann Roof, the man who has confessed to killing nine parishioners last month in Charleston, will be charged with a federal hate crime, according to an official close to the case.
  
  Read more

• Dylann Roof charged with federal hate crimes in Charleston church massacre

  22-07-2015 19:49
  
  Dylann Roof, the man who has confessed to killing nine parishioners last month in Charleston, has been charged with federal hate crimes, according to an indictment released Wednesday.
  
  Read more

• Jamie Blackley: actor in Woody Allen's latest is ‘a bit of a nervous wreck’

  22-07-2015 19:48
  
  The British actor, who takes the screen in Woody Allen’s new film Irrational Man, loves football and Joy Division – enough that he has an Ian Curtis tattooNever mind the refined chin line or rakish mid-length brown locks through which Jamie Blackley runs his fingers as he slouches at a 45-degree angle on a banquette in the dimly lit bar of the Carlyle hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. What’s harder to notice is underneath his thin, striped T-shirt: a fist-sized tattoo of the late Joy
  
  Read more

• 'I don't feel like a pioneer!' Rachel Treweek becomes bishop of Gloucester

  22-07-2015 19:41
  
  CofE’s most senior clergywoman urged to ‘disturb’ the church after high-profile joint consecration with Dame Sarah Mullally, new bishop of CreditonOn the feast day of the Bible’s most radical woman, Mary Magdalene, the Church of England consecrated its most senior female bishop – set to be the first to enter the House of Lords – with the Venerable Rachel Treweek urged to be as subversive as Jesus’s most prominent female follower.Treweek and her fellow new bishop, the Rev Canon Dame
  
  Read more

• Student from group of British-Sudanese Isis recruits killed in Syria

  22-07-2015 19:39
  
  Medical student Osman Mustafa Fagiri, 23, listed on the electoral register at a London address, is thought to have been killed fighting pro-Assad forcesA student who was part of a British-Sudanese group of medics who joined Islamic State has been killed in Syria, as an international manhunt intensifies for the alleged ringleader of the group.Osman Mustafa Fagiri, 23, who is listed on the electoral register at his grandfather’s home in Swiss Cottage, north London, was understood to have been ki
  
  Read more

• Why secretly taped meetings with Planned Parenthood executives have catapulted abortion into the Republican presidential campaign

  22-07-2015 19:38
  “Can you help us?” a young woman bearing a clipboard asked me one day this week as I walked through Bryant Park here in Manhattan. As I mustered my usual sorry-in-a-frightful-hurry expression and scooted past, I glimpsed the logo of Planned Parenthood. Maybe I should have stopped.
  
  Read more

• Andy McSmith's Diary: Another day, another Tobias Ellwood embarrassment

  22-07-2015 19:38
  
  Tobias Ellwood, the Foreign Office minister, has – as I wrote on 22 July – refused to answer questions in the Commons about the fate of the Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, on the grounds that his case is still being considered by the Saudi Supreme Court and the UK could not interfere in another country’s judicial process. Everyone else who has followed the case thinks that his right of appeal is exhausted, and his public flogging could resume at any time. I asked the Foreign Office either to co
  
  Read more

• Lorry Crash: Binman Tried To Wake Driver

  22-07-2015 19:37
  
  Henry Clarke, 58, collapsed at the wheel of his council refuse lorry, causing the vehicle to career out of control, killing six and injuring 10 others in Glasgow three days before Christmas last year. The inquiry, which is expected to last for at least a month, will also look at whether it was appropriate for the lorry to drive the city centre route in the mid-afternoon during the pre-Christmas period.
  
  Read more

• 'The Krays were glamorous guys'

  22-07-2015 19:35
  
  Flashy suits, fancy clubs and Freudian fights: a new film about Ronnie and Reggie Kray polishes their brutal myth into a glossy true-crime thriller. Legend director Brian Helgeland on getting under the skin of the notorious East End gangsters and shooting two Tom Hardys Brian Helgeland first heard of the Kray twins in 1998, when the writer-director met a veteran English showbusiness manager with a dramatic scar. Eventually, curiosity nudged him into asking how it happened. That, he was told, had
  
  Read more

• Gary Player hopes for Tiger turnaround because golf 'needs a black champion'

  22-07-2015 19:34
  
  South African great says it is ‘sad’ to see Woods in decline and believes a non-white champion would inspire more children in Africa and Asia to play golfGolf needs Tiger Woods to recapture his former glory – because the sport needs a black champion, according to South African great Gary Player.Woods, a 14-time major winner who has spent greatest total number of weeks at world No 1, missed yet another cut at the Open this week to fall to 258th in the global rankings, and Player said Woods�
  
  Read more

• Third of parents 'use online banking to pay pocket money'

  22-07-2015 19:31
  
  Pocket money being handed out in cash is a dying tradition; with parents now using digital means to pay their children's allowance.
  
  Read more

• Kim Kardashian and family rally behind Caitlyn Jenner in reality show I Am Cait

  22-07-2015 19:31
  
  The first episode of Caitlyn Jenner's new reality show, I Am Cait, shows the Kardashian-Jenner clan rallying around her.
  
  Read more

• Donald Trump is heading for the Mexico border as he opens up big lead in the polls

  22-07-2015 19:31
  
  Donald Trump has dominated headlines about the 2016 presidential race since he launched his campaign last month.
  
  Read more

• Versace apartments: Luxury living hits the next level in London

  22-07-2015 19:30
  
  If the organisers of the launch of Britain’s first housing development partnered with Versace were concerned they had missed their target market, they need not have looked further than the venue’s car park for reassurance.
  
  Read more

• Lloyds shareholders win court fight over disclosure of HBOS legal advice

  22-07-2015 19:29
  
  Lloyds has been told it must hand over legal advice related to its disastrous takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) in a victory for disgruntled shareholders mounting a £350 million legal claim.
  
  Read more

• President Obama in Kenya: Prodigal son returns - but can he bring much needed change to his father's homeland?

  22-07-2015 19:26
  
  Evans Kidero, Nairobi’s ebullient governor, is chuckling over a Twitter hashtag that is drawing a lot of attention. It’s #KideroGrass, a wry reference to the massive preparations the city is making ahead of Friday’s arrival of US President Barack Obama, in particular the planting of new grass that will not grow in time.
  
  Read more

• The world's most and least peaceful countries in the world revealed through new research

  22-07-2015 19:22
  
  A huge set of new figures showing levels of peace and violence around the world has been released by major think tank the Institute for Economics and Peace.
  
  Read more

• Syria named as the world's most dangerous country in latest research on global levels of peace and violence

  22-07-2015 19:22
  
  Syria has been named as the most dangerous country in the world, amidst its civil war and the rise of Isis, according to a huge set of new figures showing global levels of peace and violence.
  
  Read more

• Syria has become the world's most dangerous country, according to latest research on global levels of peace and violence

  22-07-2015 19:22
  Syria has become dangerous country in the world in the last few years, over the course of its civil war and the rise of Isis, according to a huge set of new figures showing global levels of peace and violence.
  
  Read more

• Website claims to offer Nick Clegg's services for up to $55,000 a speech

  22-07-2015 19:21
  
  Spokesperson admits former deputy prime minister has taken on an agent to manage speaking invitations but says he ‘did not authorise’ the website listingNick Clegg has taken on an agent to manage his after-dinner speaking engagements, but has distanced himself from a website which is offering his services for up to $55,000 per speech.The former deputy prime minister and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats is listed among the speakers on the website of events company Leading Authorities, which
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralnewsUK on Twitter!