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Police officer standing behind police tape outside Keir Starmer's home.

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Police investigate fires at properties and car linked to Starmer

Counterterrorism officers are investigating suspected arson as three blazes in four days linked to PM

Universities face tax on foreign students under immigration rules

The immigration white paper proposes overseas graduates be forced to return home after 18 months unless they find a skilled job

Politics

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IN DEPTH

What are Starmer’s new immigration rules and will they work?

Politics

Immigration to UK ‘will fall by 100,000 a year’ under new rules

Sir Keir Starmer announced sweeping reforms including tighter visa restrictions and promised to ‘take back control of our borders’

Politics

Photo of Edan and Alexander paraded by Hamas and the Red Cross.

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Hamas releases Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander

Release raises hopes for a ceasefire as Trump prepares for a visit to the Middle East

Israel-Hamas war

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

Illustration of Sean Diddy Combs making a heart shape with his hands in court.

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Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

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Nigel Farage reacting to his party's by-election win.

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Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

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Bulgarian honeytrap agents in Russian spy ring jailed

Crime

Severely damaged Ferrari submerged in river.

British couple die in Spain after Ferrari plunges into river

Europe

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

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Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

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Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

UPDATED

IN DEPTH

Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

17 minutes ago

UPDATED

IN DEPTH

Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

17 minutes ago

NEW

Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

NEW

Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

NEW

Bulgarian honeytrap agents in Russian spy ring jailed

Crime

British couple die in Spain after Ferrari plunges into river

Europe

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

UPDATED

IN DEPTH

Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

17 minutes ago

NEW

Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

NEW

Bulgarian honeytrap agents in Russian spy ring jailed

Crime

British couple die in Spain after Ferrari plunges into river

Europe

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

UPDATED

IN DEPTH

Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

17 minutes ago

NEW

Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

Tom Cruise bemoans young actors’ lack of technical knowledge

Film

UPDATED

IN DEPTH

Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

17 minutes ago

UPDATED

IN DEPTH

Diddy’s defence: I’m a domestic abuser but my sex life is not a crime

US news

17 minutes ago

NEW

Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

NEW

Mandelson: I can’t imagine Nigel Farage ever becoming PM

Politics

NEW

Bulgarian honeytrap agents in Russian spy ring jailed

Crime

British couple die in Spain after Ferrari plunges into river

Europe

Screengrab of Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales, embracing by a loch.

Kate says ‘nature has been my sanctuary’ in new video series

The Princess of Wales says she is ‘celebrating humanity’s longstanding connection to nature’ as part of Mental Health Awareness Week

Royal family

Illustration of an obese person measuring their waist, with a heart and measuring tape overlaid.

Obesity in your twenties doubles your risk of dying young

Healthcare

Overweight twelve-year-old boy measuring his waist.

NEW

NHS rolls out ‘spy scales’ that track children’s weight remotely

Healthcare

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News in Pictures

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News in Pictures

NHS nurses threaten summer strikes over pay rise cap

Healthcare

Nurses picket outside a London hospital during a 48-hour strike.

NHS nurses threaten summer strikes over pay rise cap

Healthcare

CLEAN IT UP

Southern Water pauses water-saving scheme despite drought fears

Environment

Low water levels at Baitings Reservoir reveal exposed banks; people walk with their dog along the shoreline.

CLEAN IT UP

Southern Water pauses water-saving scheme despite drought fears

Environment

British father jailed in Saudi Arabia ‘over deleted tweet’

Crime

Ahmed al-Doush, a British national, in front of a building.

British father jailed in Saudi Arabia ‘over deleted tweet’

Crime

Editor's picks

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Bafta TV awards 2025 highlights: Ruth Jones’s speech to Danny Dyer

A gushing Marisa Abela and hilarious Chris McCausland were among the winners, the men stole the show on the red carpet and The Traitors and Wolf Hall missed out

TV & Radio

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FIRST PERSON

I tried an anti-ageing guru’s ‘fake fasting’ plan. Did it work?

Health & Fitness

Virat Kohli celebrating a century in a cricket match.

MIKE ATHERTON

Kohli was an elite batsman and a captain who changed way India played

Cricket

COMMENT

CAITLIN MORAN

The question I fear most: ‘What do you think of dachshunds?’

Columnists

INTERVIEW

WHAT I’VE LEARNT

Michel Roux: ‘Many restaurants have closed. It’s a dire situation’

Food & Drink

Illustration of four graduates in different professions: a nurse, a chef, a construction worker, and a mechanic.

Degrees without the debt: a parents’ guide to apprenticeships

Parenting

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MINDGAMES

The Times Daily Quiz

COMMENT

CAITLIN MORAN

The question I fear most: ‘What do you think of dachshunds?’

Columnists

INTERVIEW

WHAT I’VE LEARNT

Michel Roux: ‘Many restaurants have closed. It’s a dire situation’

Food & Drink

Degrees without the debt: a parents’ guide to apprenticeships

Parenting

MINDGAMES

The Times Daily Quiz

FIRST PERSON

I tried an anti-ageing guru’s ‘fake fasting’ plan. Did it work?

Health & Fitness

MIKE ATHERTON

Kohli was an elite batsman and a captain who changed way India played

Cricket

World

Illustration of a man speaking at a podium about a new air traffic control system, with an airport in the background.

NEW

ANALYSIS

‘Like Apollo 13’: What is wrong with US air traffic control?

Officials are playing a blame game — is it all Ronald Reagan’s fault?

US news

Sean "Diddy" Combs' daughters walking outside a courthouse.

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P Diddy’s daughters walk out of trial’s first day — as it happened

US news

48 minutes ago

Split image of Donald Trump and another man.

Syrian leader offers Trump Ukraine-style minerals deal and tower in Damascus

Middle East

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P Diddy’s daughters walk out of trial’s first day — as it happened

US news

48 minutes ago

Syrian leader offers Trump Ukraine-style minerals deal and tower in Damascus

Middle East

Comment

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WILLIAM HAGUE Trump still buys Putin’s picture of innocence

Easily flattered, the US president’s acceptance of a portrait from the Kremlin does not bode well for Ukraine peace talks

Illustration of a man in a pub saying, "We risk becoming an island of strangers!" A woman responds, "I don't know who you are anymore..."

Cartoon by Morten Morland

MELANIE PHILLIPS Was London audience on the side of an antisemite?

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JAMES MARRIOTT TikTok and AI are junk food — start dieting

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GILES COREN | NOTEBOOK Bye, LTNs — glad I helped run you off our roads

ANTHONY SELDON | THUNDERER Britain lacked a museum about its prime ministers — until now

Life & Style

Man holding a black dog, with three other dogs in the back of a vehicle.

INTERVIEW

James Middleton: I was terrified I’d be called a fraud

When the Princess of Wales’s brother decided to write about his depression he feared the reaction, he tells Andrew Billen

Celebrity

Robert Crampton I know the true meaning of high-level stress

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Dr Mark Porter Mounjaro will be on prescription. You still need new lifestyle habits

Robert Crampton I know the true meaning of high-level stress

Dr Mark Porter Mounjaro will be on prescription. You still need new lifestyle habits

Business

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

UPDATED

US and China slash tariffs for 90 days

Stock markets and the dollar rise on the temporary easing in trade tensions while gold falls as investors sell safe-haven assets

Economics

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Mehreen Khan The US may use the dollar but that doesn’t mean it can control it

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Alistair Osborne Landmark deal lands two firms in mire

Mehreen Khan The US may use the dollar but that doesn’t mean it can control it

Alistair Osborne Landmark deal lands two firms in mire

Sport

Harry Kane of Bayern Munich holding the championship trophy.

NEW

INTERVIEW

JONATHAN NORTHCROFT

Kane: I’m very aware I hadn’t won a trophy. You think, will it ever happen?

Bundesliga champion felt Rory McIlroy’s emotions when golfer ended wait for career grand slam as he reflects on finally landing his first trophy

Football

Trent Alexander-Arnold looking dejected during a Liverpool soccer match.

Paul Joyce Warring factions over Trent exit turns Liverpool title carnival into circus

Collage of soccer players and a commentator.

Martin Samuel This is the Kylie season: a lot of clubs just got lucky, lucky, lucky

Paul Joyce Warring factions over Trent exit turns Liverpool title carnival into circus

Martin Samuel This is the Kylie season: a lot of clubs just got lucky, lucky, lucky

Culture

The truth about my great-aunt Greta Garbo — and why she stopped making films

As a new movie explores the star’s love affairs, loneliness and screen scandals, her relative and biographer explains why we’ve got her wrong

Film

The best musical, dance and theatre shows to book now

Theatre & Dance

Illustrations of Bob Dylan at the Halcyon Gallery.

The best exhibitions in the UK to see now

Art

The best musical, dance and theatre shows to book now

Theatre & Dance

The best exhibitions in the UK to see now

Art

Travel

Catania harbor with Mount Etna in the background.

Sicily’s most seductive city break — in the shadow of a volcano

East coast Catania offers baroque architecture, a Roman theatre and daily food markets, plus day trips to Mount Etna. Here’s how to spend a weekend here

Sicily