General news

• Theresa May sets out bid to lead Tories in 2022 general election

  30-08-2017 23:58
  Theresa May wants to fight the next general election as leader of the Conservative Party, she has revealed.Speaking to Sky News, the Prime Minister insisted she was "in this for the long term" - indicating she will lead the Tories into the 2022 election.
  
  Read more

• After North Korea missile, Britain and Japan agree closer security ties

  30-08-2017 23:38
  By William JamesTOKYO (Reuters) - Britain and Japan on Thursday will pledge closer cooperation on defence, cyber security and counter-terrorism as Prime Minster Theresa May looks to strengthen relations with one of her closest allies ahead of Brexit.Visiting her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe as Tokyo responds to the increasing military threat posed by North Korea, May will visit Japan's flagship helicopter carrier for a military briefing before attending a national security meeting.
  
  Read more

• Brexit negotiators trade barbs, eying deadlines

  30-08-2017 23:32
  By Alastair Macdonald and Gabriela BaczynskaBRUSSELS (Reuters) - British and European Union negotiators exchanged recriminations on Wednesday over a lack of progress in the latest round of talks on Britain's withdrawal, with both sides demanding change to meet looming deadlines.Ahead of a planned Thursday morning news conference with his British counterpart David Davis, chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier rejected complaints that his team was too rigidly tied by laboriously agreed guidelines from
  
  Read more

• UK tells Brussels negotiators their Brexit bill sums do not add up

  30-08-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Tensions rise as EU says Britain failing to show its hand and UK argues some claims for money have no legal basisThe UK has told EU negotiators their sums on the Brexit bill do not add up, as talks on Britain’s separation from the bloc hit deadlock.Tensions boiled over in Brussels as the EU accused Britain of failing to reveal its hand on the financial settlement. UK officials hit back at the EU, saying some claims for money had no legal basis.Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Theresa May expresses unity with Japan in face of North Korea threat

  30-08-2017 23:30
  Shinzo Abe greets Theresa May upon her arrival for a tea ceremony in Kyoto.Theresa May has promised that the UK will stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Japan over the threat from North Korea, with the prime minister due to announce in Tokyo an increase in mutual cooperation over defence and cyber-security.
  
  Read more

• Gareth Southgate’s England regime places greater emphasis on playing time

  30-08-2017 23:30 via theguardian.com
  • Nathaniel Chalobah’s Watford move indicative of the change
  • Chris Smalling alone of the 28-man squad yet to start league gameGareth Southgate has introduced a policy in the England setup where players who are not featuring regularly for their club sides should not expect to keep their places when it comes to the national team.Southgate brought his players together at a previous England meet-up and told them that he would not be as understanding as the previous regime when it c
  
  Read more

• Sports Direct's Mike Ashley sues former business partner over £3m golf course scheme

  30-08-2017 23:13
  Mike Ashley claims his former ‘trusted friend’ lured him into handing over £3m linked to a fraudulent investment.Mike Ashley, the billionaire owner of Newcastle United, is moving from the pub to the golf course in his latest high court dispute with a former business partner.Ashley claims his former “trusted friend” Tony Jimenez, an executive at Newcastle United under Ashley until 2008, lured him into handing over £3m linked to a fraudulent investment in a Fren
  
  Read more

• Grenfell inquests opened into victims Ernie Vital and Hesham Rahman

  30-08-2017 23:06
  Two more Grenfell Tower victims were identified using dental records and DNA,a court has heard, as the family of one of the men paid tribute to a "loyal son".Hesham Rahman, 57, and Ernie Vital, 50, died on the 23rd floor, Westminster Coroner's Court heard - as it opened and adjourned inquests into their deaths.Mr Vital is believed to have lived on the 16th floor with his mother Marjorie, 68, who also perished in the blaze.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Theresa May to lead Conservatives into next general election

  30-08-2017 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  The prime minister told the BBC she would lead her party into the next general election.
  
  Read more

• May: 'I'm in this for the long term'

  30-08-2017 23:05
  The Prime Minister has said that she wants to take the Conservatives into the next General Election, currently scheduled for 2022.
  
  Read more

• 'I'm not a quitter' says May, vowing to fight next election

  30-08-2017 23:03
  By William JamesKYOTO, Japan (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said she wanted to continue as Britain's leader beyond the next parliamentary election, not due until 2022, dismissing expectations she could stand down after Brexit as early as 2019.May's authority has been badly damaged by a ill-judged election campaign earlier this year which cost her Conservative party its majority in parliament and failed to provide a clear mandate for her Brexit strategy.After apologising for her election
  
  Read more

• 'I'm not a quitter': Theresa May says she could fight another election as PM

  30-08-2017 23:00 via theguardian.com
  May tells reporters she is ‘in this for the long term’, risking reigniting anger in her party over the disastrous general election and criticisms of her leadershipTheresa May insisted she could fight another general election as prime minister, arguing that she is “not a quitter” despite June’s disastrous election result and repeated criticisms of her leadership style.Risking reigniting anger from within her own party, the Conservative leader said that she was &ldquo
  
  Read more

• 'I'm not a quitter': Theresa May says she could fight another election as PM

  30-08-2017 23:00
  Theresa May, takes part in a tea ceremony with Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe.Theresa May insisted she could fight another general election as prime minister, arguing that she is “not a quitter” despite June’s disastrous election result and repeated criticisms of her leadership style.Risking reigniting anger from within her own party, the Conservative leader said that she was “in this for the long term” and that there was no foundation to reports that she
  
  Read more

• Ivanka Trump supports rollback of Obama's policy to close gender pay gap

  30-08-2017 22:56 via theguardian.com
  Initiative would have required employers to collect data on wages but ‘would not yield the intended results’ says Trump, despite professed support of equal payIvanka Trump, who came into her father’s administration vowing to fight for women in the workplace, has blessed a White House plan to roll back an Obama-era policy aimed at eliminating the gender pay gap.The initiative, which was unveiled by Barack Obama in January 2016, would have required employers to collect data on ho
  
  Read more

• Sebastian Gorka Tells Channel 4 News's Krishnan Guru-Murthy He's 'Spinning Left-Wing Wet Dreams'

  30-08-2017 22:17
  Donald Trump’s former aide Sebastian Gorka is continuing to bash the media on behalf of his former boss, despite leaving the White House last week.
  
  Read more

• We need action to address the mental health crisis, not more empty words | Clare Allan

  30-08-2017 21:53 via theguardian.com
  Theresa May and her ministers now talk the talk. But government policies helped to fuel a problem they can no longer ignoreFront page articles on mental health have become a regular occurrence. This week we learned that Britain’s biggest police force received a phone call relating to mental health every five minutes last year. And James Munby, head of the high court’s family division, hit the headlines this month referring to the case of girl X – a suicidal teenager for whom no
  
  Read more

• Briton extradited over Lloyds and Barclays cyberattack allegations

  30-08-2017 21:52
  A British man has been extradited from Germany to face claims that he launched cyberattacks against Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays.Daniel Kaye, 29, of Egham, Surrey, is accused of using an infected network to attack and blackmail the lenders, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.The NCA said Lloyds Banking Group - which includes Halifax Bank of Scotland as well as Lloyds Bank - saw services disrupted by an apparent cyberattack in January this year.
  
  Read more

• Kate Evans on Kezia Dugdale and the Scottish Labour leadership – cartoon

  30-08-2017 21:34 via theguardian.com
  Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• US Open, day three: Millman knocks out Kyrgios, plus Sharapova and more – live!

  30-08-2017 21:32 via theguardian.com
  Updates from 87 first and second-round matchesDay two: rain washes out most of play at Flushing Meadows Email [email protected] or tweet @KatyMurrells 8.32pm BSTKyrgios says he's not good enough for coach Grosjean. "I'm not dedicated to the game at all". 8.30pm BSTWhile Del Potro looks good to come through this first-round match, that fifth point in the previous game summed up why he’s not often challenging at the business end of tournaments these days. His forehand remains one
  
  Read more

• Transfer window liveblog: Sanches, Aurier, Oxlade-Chamberlain latest – live!

  30-08-2017 21:29 via theguardian.com
  The latest transfer news and updates from around the worldSanches set to join Swansea on loan from Bayern MunichLiverpool agree £40m Oxlade-Chamberlain and chase LemarAnd feel free to email Nick or tweet @NickAmes82 8.29pm BST“As a Baggies fan, I’m delighted that we’ve completed the loan deal for Grzegorz Krychowiak. I now look forward to us re-signing Tomasz Kuszczak and Dick Kryziwicki,” laughs Alan Davies. I had to look Kryziwicki up, I must admit, but wow, what
  
  Read more

• Macron says wants euro zone budget worth 'several points' of bloc's GDP

  30-08-2017 21:29
  PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he wanted euro zone countries to set up a budget worth "several points of the euro zone's GDP", which would be funded by a share of taxation currently going to national budgets. Macron, who was elected in May on a pro-EU platform and had touted plans for a euro zone budget before, gave more details about the reform he plans to outline after the German elections, in a wide-ranging interview with Le Point magazine published on its website on
  
  Read more

• Alleged mastermind behind bank cyber-attacks extradited to UK

  30-08-2017 21:27 via theguardian.com
  Briton Daniel Kaye, extradited from Germany, is accused of attempting to blackmail Lloyds and Barclays banksThe alleged mastermind behind a series of cyber-attacks on Lloyds and Barclays banks that disrupted up to 20 million accounts has been extradited from Germany to face charges in the UK.The British man, Daniel Kaye, 29, is accused of attempting to blackmail the banks after using an infected network of computers known as the Mirai#14 botnet. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Dara Khosrowshahi's Uber in-tray: 20 issues new chief must address

  30-08-2017 21:26 via theguardian.com
  Uber’s new boss begins work with a bulging in-tray of problems, including the firm’s ‘creepy’ image and a founder looming largeAs Dara Khosrowshahi takes the chief executive’s chair at Uber, his in-tray is groaning with issues in urgent need of addressing. In no particular order, here are 20 of the problems on his extensive to-do list. Related: Dara Khosrowshahi: who is the man chosen as Uber’s next CEO?Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Grenfell inquests opened into victims Hesham Rahman and Ernie Vital

  30-08-2017 21:23
  Inquests into the deaths of two more victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster have been opened and adjourned.Hesham Rahman, 57, and Ernie Vital, 50, died on the 23rd floor of the flats, Westminster Coroner's Court heard.Mr Vital is believed to have lived on the 16th floor with his mother Marjorie, 68, who also perished in the blaze.
  
  Read more

• First Reformed review – Ethan Hawke finds faith and fury in portrait of a whisky priest

  30-08-2017 21:20 via theguardian.com
  Paul Schrader fans won’t find his new drama a revelation – but Hawke fills the flawed holy man template wellFirst Reformed, in upstate New York, is a tourist-trap church that no one actually attends. Once, long ago, this place served as a way-station on the underground railroad, providing shelter for runaway slaves en route to Canada. Now the church is preserved as a pretty antique, a clapboard white elephant propped up by a Christian conglomerate called Abundant Life and bankrolled
  
  Read more

• Serge Aurier given Home Office clearance to sign for Tottenham

  30-08-2017 21:18 via theguardian.com
  • £23m full-back Aurier had French sentence for assault reduced on appeal
  • Mauricio Pochettino also signs Juan Foyth from EstudiantesSerge Aurier is primed to complete a £23m (€25m) move from Paris Saint‑Germain to Tottenham Hotspur after the Home Office granted him a work permit. The London club have also announced the £8m signing of the 19-year-old Argentinian centre-back Juan Foyth from Estudiantes on a five-year contract.Aurier, a 24-year-old Ivory Coa
  
  Read more

• Schools around England ejecting 'underperforming' sixth-formers

  30-08-2017 20:58 via theguardian.com
  Testimony from parents and students suggests St Olave’s grammar school is just one of many institutions ‘weeding out’ studentsDozens of parents and pupils have contacted the Guardian complaining that schools in different areas of the country are ejecting sixth form students half way through their two-year A-level course after failing to achieve sufficiently high grades.Some of the schools identified are in areas where there are a high number of grammar schools, including Kent,
  
  Read more

• Schools around England ejecting 'underperforming' sixth-formers

  30-08-2017 20:58
  Dozens of parents and pupils have contacted the Guardian complaining that schools in different areas of the country are ejecting sixth form students half way through their two-year A-level course after failing to achieve sufficiently high grades.Some of the schools identified are in areas where there are a high number of grammar schools, including Kent, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, though non-selective schools elsewhere are also implicated.The testimony from parents and students suggests th
  
  Read more

• Police in Aberaeron investigate carnival float 'considered racist'

  30-08-2017 20:55 via theguardian.com
  Men wore black face paint and dressed as characters from Jamaican bobsleigh team film Cool Runnings for Aberaeron paradePolice are investigating allegations of racism against a group of men who wore black face paint when they dressed as members of the Jamaican bobsleigh team for a carnival parade.The men, who were meant to be characters from the 1993 film Cool Runnings, also donned black wigs and bodysuits in the colours of the Jamaican flag.Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Child in fostering row 'should live with non-practising Muslim' grandmother

  30-08-2017 20:52 via theguardian.com
  Family court order says court-appointed guardian found child was ‘settled and well cared for’ but grandmother is ‘a suitable carer’The English-speaking child at the heart of a religious fostering row should live with her grandmother, said to be a non-practising Muslim, a family court judge has ordered.
  The detail emerged in a court order that sets out for the first time some of the facts in the controversial case, following reports that the child was Christian and was unh
  
  Read more

• Child in fostering row 'should live with non-practising Muslim' grandmother

  30-08-2017 20:52
  The council said it welcomed the family court’s decision to publish details of the controversial case.The English-speaking child at the heart of a religious fostering row should live with her grandmother, said to be a non-practising Muslim, a family court judge has ordered.The detail emerged in a court order that sets out for the first time some of the facts in the controversial case, following reports that the child was Christian and was unhappy at having been placed in the care of foster
  
  Read more

• New Uber CEO meets staff as emotional Travis Kalanick gets standing ovation

  30-08-2017 20:45 via theguardian.com
  Dara Shosrowshahi, the former Expedia CEO, holds an all-staff meeting as the ousted Uber founder describes the last six months as the hardest of his life The incoming Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, former CEO of Expedia, addressed the ride-hailing company in an all-hands meeting Wednesday at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.Khosrowshahi, who starts next Tuesday, replaces the ousted leader and co-founder Travis Kalanick, who resigned following a string of controversies including alleg
  
  Read more

• Mike Ashley sues former business partner over golf course scheme

  30-08-2017 20:45
  Mike Ashley claims his former ‘trusted friend’ lured him into handing over £3m linked to a fraudulent investment.Mike Ashley, the billionaire owner of Newcastle United, is moving from the pub to the golf course in his latest high court dispute with a former business partner.Ashley claims his former “trusted friend” Tony Jimenez, an executive at Newcastle United under Ashley until 2008, lured him into handing over £3m linked to a fraudulent investment in a Fren
  
  Read more

• Liverpool agree £40m Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain deal and pursue Thomas Lemar

  30-08-2017 20:42 via theguardian.com
  • Arsenal’s Oxlade-Chamberlain opts for Liverpool rather than Chelsea
  • Jürgen Klopp refusing to give up on Monaco midfielder LemarLiverpool are on the verge of signing Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for £40m from Arsenal and could take their spending inside a week to around £170m should Monaco sanction the sale of Thomas Lemar on transfer deadline day.Oxlade-Chamberlain was undergoing a medical with Liverpool staff on Wednesday at St George’s Park, where he is pr
  
  Read more

• Brazilian court blocks abolition of vast Amazon reserve

  30-08-2017 20:35 via theguardian.com
  Judge says president Michel Temer went beyond his authority in issuing decree to dissolve Renca, after fury from activistsA Brazilian court has blocked an attempt by the president, Michel Temer, to open up swaths of the Amazon forest to mining companies after an outcry by environmental campaigners and climate activists.The federal judge Rolando Valcir Spanholo said the president went beyond his authority in issuing a decree to abolish Renca, an area of 46,000 sq km (17,760 sq miles) that has bee
  
  Read more

• Volcanic eruptions triggered global warming 56m years ago, study reveals

  30-08-2017 20:34 via theguardian.com
  Scientists say one of the most rapid periods of warming in Earth’s history was due to gradual release of CO2, warning current levels of emissions were even higher A dramatic period of global warming 56 million years ago that saw temperatures climb by up to five degrees and triggered extinctions of marine organisms was down to volcanic eruptions, researchers have revealed, in a study they say offers insights into the scale and possible impact of global warming today.One of the most rapid pe
  
  Read more

• Defense secretary quickly contradicts Trump over North Korea diplomacy

  30-08-2017 20:33 via theguardian.com
  Minutes after president says ‘talking is not the answer’ to tensions with Pyongyang, James Mattis says diplomatic solutions never run outDonald Trump appeared to rule out contacts with the North Korean regime in the wake of its missile test over Japan on Wednesday, declaring: “Talking is not the answer.”Minutes later, however, the defense secretary, James Mattis, flatly contradicted the president’s blanket statement, telling reporters: “We’re never out o
  
  Read more

• Another 1,000 badgers to be killed in Somerset and Gloucestershire

  30-08-2017 20:27 via theguardian.com
  Critics say authorisation of supplementary culls shows the programme, which began four years ago, is not workingAnother 1,000 badgers are set to be killed this autumn and winter in the two UK counties where the controversial cull began four years ago. Natural England confirmed on Wednesday that supplementary culls had been authorised in Gloucestershire and Somerset.Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Corbynites hope leftwinger will emerge to stand for Scottish Labour leadership

  30-08-2017 20:25 via theguardian.com
  Senior Westminster figures hope for influx of new members into Scottish party following Kezia Dugdale’s surprise departureJeremy Corbyn is hoping a leftwing candidate will emerge to stand for the leadership of the Scottish party, after Kezia Dugdale unexpectedly announced her resignation.Labour’s London leadership had initially been expected to press for a quick contest to replace Dugdale, in the hope that Neil Findlay, the MSP who ran Corbyn’s leadership campaign in Scotland,
  
  Read more

• UK government unveils £200m in aid to help fight Boko Haram in Nigeria

  30-08-2017 20:23 via theguardian.com
  International development secretary Priti Patel announced the five-year care package on a visit to Nigeria with foreign secretary Boris JohnsonThe UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, and international development secretary Priti Patel have travelled to the heart of the Boko Haram uprising in Nigeria to show solidarity with the fight to bring the jihadists under control.In their first joint visit, the two ministers travelled to Maiduguri, the capital of the north-east state of Borno, which suffe
  
  Read more

• Irish Turf Club reopens case of jockey Davy Russell punching his horse

  30-08-2017 20:20 via theguardian.com
  • ISPCA argues that earlier punishment was ‘too lenient’
  • Russell has admitted punching Kings Dolly at TramoreDavy Russell is once more at risk of a ban for punching his horse, after the Irish Turf Club’s decision to reopen the case against him. The jockey was given a caution after three members of the Turf Club heard the evidence against him on Saturday but senior officials have since held an internal review, decided a caution was “unduly lenient” and re
  
  Read more

• The white polo shirt: how the alt-right co-opted a modern classic

  30-08-2017 20:18 via theguardian.com
  From its roots in the worlds of polo and tennis, through Ralph Lauren and the rap scene, the white polo shirt is a garment loaded with aspiration. For the white supremacists who marched on Charlottesville, it acted, chillingly, as a uniform Last week, film-maker and GQ correspondent CJ Hunt was in the middle of the Charlottesville violence when he recorded something extraordinary. A young man ran into frame. Separated from his supremacist clan, lost amidst the leftists, in panic he whipped off h
  
  Read more

• Liberals can’t hope to beat Trump until they truly understand him | John Harris

  30-08-2017 20:15 via theguardian.com
  Rightwing populists are operating according to different rules. If everything is a circus, who cares about bread?This week brought a fascinating spectacle indeed: Donald Trump telling the unvarnished truth. The occasion was a joint press conference with the stoic-looking president of Finland, three days after Hurricane Harvey made landfall and Trump simultaneously announced his pardon of Joe Arpaio – the notorious former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was facing a possible jail s
  
  Read more

• West Brom sign PSG’s Grzegorz Krychowiak on season-long loan

  30-08-2017 20:10 via theguardian.com
  • Poland midfielder joins a year after €30m transfer
  • Baggies also complete permanent deal for Kieran GibbsWest Bromwich Albion have completed the signing of the defensive midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak from Paris Saint-Germain on a season-long loan, with Kieran Gibbs also joining from Arsenal for an undisclosed fee believed to be around £7m.The Poland international Krychowiak, who left Sevilla for the French capital last year for €30m, started just seven league games
  
  Read more

• The Guardian view on privacy: computers gossip | Editorial

  30-08-2017 20:04 via theguardian.com
  We need secure digital identities but they must never be allowed to grow too large and powerfulAt the beginning of the internet age, people used to go online, but no longer. Instead we live there from the moment we first pick up a smartphone to the moment it is laid on a bedside table. Our digital lives are now as real as money, and so debates about online privacy are actually about our political freedoms. Around the world these debates are reaching very different conclusions.Last week, the Indi
  
  Read more

• The Guardian view on Kezia Dugdale’s resignation: good for her, not for Scotland | Editorial

  30-08-2017 20:03 via theguardian.com
  She was the party’s eighth leader in 18 years. She lost many big battles. But she also showed Scottish Labour a way backKezia Dugdale’s resignation as leader of Scottish Labour is not in the best interests of her party. For the first time in the most dismal decade in its history, Scottish Labour has been recovering in the polls. The general election went better than expected. A working relationship had been forged between the UK party’s Jeremy Corbyn and the more reformist Ms D
  
  Read more

• William and Harry recall 1997 scenes as they view Diana tributes

  30-08-2017 20:02
  The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry have viewed tributes laid outside Kensington Palace to their late mother Princess Diana.On the eve of the 20th anniversary of Diana's death, her two sons recalled scenes from two decades ago as they stopped to look at messages, pictures and flowers left at the gates of the royal residence.William and Harry sheltered under umbrellas as they thanked the several hundred well-wishers who had gathered outside Kensington Palace on Wednesday, which was Diana's off
  
  Read more

• UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns

  30-08-2017 20:01 via theguardian.com
  Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review revealsThe government must act urgently to ensure that patients and UK taxpayers – not just tech companies – gain from new commercial applications of NHS data, an independent review of the UK life sciences industry has said.Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university who led the government-commissioned review,
  
  Read more

• Bank cyber attack suspect extradited from Germany to appear in British court

  30-08-2017 20:00
  (Reuters) - A British man has been extradited from Germany after being accused of launching cyber attacks on the networks of Lloyds Banking Group and Barclays banks this year, the National Crime Agency said on Wednesday.Daniel Kaye, 29, from Egham, west of London, is accused of using an infected network to attack the banks' systems.Kaye is also facing a charge that he endangered human welfare with an alleged cyber attack against Lonestar MTN, Liberia's biggest internet provider, the agency said.
  
  Read more

• William and Harry lay flowers for Diana at Kensington Palace

  30-08-2017 19:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The princes spoke to members of the public who left tributes outside Kensington Palace.
  
  Read more

Follow @GeneralnewsUK on Twitter!