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Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner Prize with two exhibitions, including a series of brightly coloured sculptures.The Glaswegian, 59, took home the visual arts prize along with £25,000 at an award ceremony on Tuesday in Bradford, this year's UK City of Culture. As reported by The Guardian, she is the first artist with a learning disability to win the award. Image: Nnena Kalu, from Glasgow, is the […]

The first serving member of the British armed forces has been killed in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale war.He died on Tuesday following a "tragic accident" while watching the Ukrainian military test a new weapon away from the frontline, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. Hostile fire is not thought to have been involved.Latest - Trump lashes out Image: The frontline town of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region in Ukraine. […]

Hundreds of tonnes of rubbish are suspected to have been dumped and burned illegally in south east London, the local council has said.Bromley Council uncovered "large mounds of burnt waste" tucked away in the woods in St Mary Cray. It suspects the land was "being used as an illegal waste disposal site", and that operations were taking place on an "industrial scale".If confirmed, it would be just one of hundreds […]

Northwest Scotland is expected to bear the worst of Storm Bram, with an amber warning issued for "very strong and disruptive winds".The Met Office is warning of gusts potentially upwards of 90mph in the region. There has been disruption across the UK on Tuesday, with flights and trains cancelled and hundreds of properties left without power.Nine weather warnings for wind were still in place on Tuesday evening, with amber warnings […]

The trouble with the scientific evidence behind the social media ban in Australia is that there is not more of it.This feels wrong on every level. We have all heard the stories - there are so many, you can hardly avoid them. And everyone who's ever used social media knows it can be frustrating, to put it mildly. Sure, it has its benefits. But it often feels empty, addictive or […]

Donald Trump's bruising assessment of Europe as "weak" and "decaying" is a bitter blow to nations already reeling from the release of his national security strategy.At the end of the 45-minute interview with Politico, EU leaders might be forgiven for thinking, with friends like these, who needs enemies? "Europe doesn't know what to do," Trump said, "They want to be politically correct, and it makes them weak." Image: Trump meets […]

A New York judge has ordered the release of material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case.Maxwell, a disgraced British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. In a ruling filed on Tuesday, New York Southern District Judge Paul A Engelmayer granted the US Department of Justice's request to release grand jury transcripts and other material from the 2021 case publicly.A […]

A man has been charged with racially abusing Bournemouth's Antoine Semenyo during a Premier League match.The incident is alleged to have happened during Bournemouth's fixture against Liverpool at Anfield on 15 August.Mark Mogan, 47, of Dovecot, has been conditionally bailed, and will appear at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on 22 December.Merseyside Police said in a statement: "We can confirm that a Liverpool man has been charged in connection with an incident […]

Punk-rap duo Bob Vylan are suing Irish national broadcaster RTE for defamation, claiming it misrepresented chants led by the band when they played this year's Glastonbury festival.The group, which performed at Dublin's Vicar Street last month, claim they were defamed in a report by RTE News that said the lead singer led antisemitic chants when they played the Somerset festival in June. During their performance, singer Pascal Robinson-Foster, whose stage […]