When Covid hit, people were anxious and frightened. So Catherine Barrett started a page – the Kindness Pandemic – to let them know they weren’t alone Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Naomi Colville said panic quickly set in when her neurodivergent daughter didn’t come home after her first day of high school. “My…

Rescuers gathered at first light to scour banks of river from ford between Bolton and Abberwick to sea at Alnmouth Searches are continuing for the missing former England wing Tom Voyce, who is believed to have died while driving across a flood-swollen river during Storm Darragh. The 43-year-old’s car has been recovered from the River…

Policy pitched as incentive for businesses to spend more at local venues amounts to using taxpayer money ‘to shout your boss steak tartare’, government says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Labor government has ridiculed the Coalition’s plan to allow…

Axel Rudakubana, who murdered three girls in a stabbing spree last year, had been referred to Britain’s counterterror program, Prevent, three times before his attack last July.

Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.

François Bayrou said France must look global powers ‘face on’ in reference to Donald Trump’s return to office The French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said France must stand firm in the face of figures such as the tech billionaire Elon Musk, who represents a “new world disorder”. In his first policy speech to the…

The official death toll so far is 14, but there are fears that the number killed in the French territory by Tropical Cyclone Chido could be much higher.