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Hauliers’ group Transport in Nood BV launched judicial review earlier this year over fines issued in Ulez and LezTransport for London (TfL) could be forced to pay back millions of pounds in low emission zone fines issued to Dutch lorry drivers after agreeing they had been issued unlawfully.The body said it had agreed to settle a claim regarding the Ulez fines after a company...

Warning of ‘lost generation’ in Adré and Farchana camps as Sudan’s civil war drives huge numbers across borderWhat caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?Refugees and aid agencies have warned of deteriorating conditions in overcrowded and severely underfunded camps in Chad, as intensifying violence and a hunger crisis in Sudan drive huge numbers...

Authorities yet to uncover source and motive of surge in fake bomb threats, as dozens of planes forced to rerouteA reported 90 hoax bomb threats have been made against Indian airlines in the past week, provoking international travel chaos as planes were grounded, diverted and flown to safety by fighter jet escorts.The unprecedented surge in fake bomb threats against multiple Indian and international airlines...

Labour invite the public to share their experiences, views and ideas on fixing the NHS in a nation-wide consultationHere are social media posts from two journalists about the plan for digital “patient passports” in the NHS.From John Burn-Murdoch, the Financial Times’ chief data reporterEveryone saying “no we can’t let the NHS use a proper joined up digital patient database, it’s all part of a...

Key parliamentary report focuses on decision by Facebook owner to abandon three-year-old deal to pay for news contentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian government should consider imposing a “digital platform levy” – a tax on tech companies like Meta and Google – as well as establishing a fund to help traditional news media organisations “strengthen alternative income...

Charles and Camilla entered the Great Hall from a door behind the stage – not from the foyer, down the centre aisle, and past Thorpe. Now we may know whyKing Charles heckled by Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe at Australia’s Parliament HouseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs soon as Lidia Thorpe RSVP’d to the royal reception at Parliament House, it...

King says Australia’s climate leadership of ‘critical importance’ in Parliament House address disrupted by Indigenous senator’s protestGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast King Charles III has declared Australia’s leadership on climate change is of “absolute and critical importance” in a lightning-fast visit to Canberra, blemished only by a senator’s protest about the involvement of the monarchy in stealing Aboriginal...

Move follows fears over jobs and control when private equity firm CD&R entered talks to buy Opella for €16bnThe French government is to take a stake in the pharmaceutical company Sanofi’s consumer healthcare division to try to quell a backlash as the US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice enters talks to buy the unit for €16bn (£13.3bn).Sanofi is spinning off Opella, which...

Seoul demands immediate withdrawal of elite soldiers reportedly helping Russia in its war against UkraineSouth Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to Seoul to protest “in the strongest terms” about the reported dispatch of thousands of North Korean troops to help Russia in its war against Ukraine.The first vice-foreign minister, Kim Hong-kyun, told the Russian envoy Georgy Zinoviev that the participation of North Korean...

Trial begins of second teen accused over stabbing death of 41-year-old on Boxing Day 2022 Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJust before midnight on Boxing Day 2022, police allege, an intruder into a suburban Brisbane home held a serrated knife centimetres from the face of his accomplice, illuminated by the light of a mobile phone.CCTV footage which purportedly captured...

Oscar, 10th hurricane of 2024 season, batters Turks and Caicos and Bahamas and threatens Cuba and CanadaHurricane Oscar has become the 10th hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, battering the Turks and Caicos Islands on Saturday night and the far southern Bahamas on Sunday.The disturbance that eventually became Oscar was initially given a low chance of tropical development by the US National Hurricane Center....

Ex-Tory minister says Vine being derided over leaked email was one of most painful moments of his careerUK politics live – latest updatesMichael Gove has said that the most hurtful part of his political career was the attacks on his former wife, Sarah Vine.In extracts of a new BBC podcast about politics hosted by Gove, the former Conservative minister and MP said this was...

This blog is now closedKing Charles heckled by Lidia Thorpe at Parliament HouseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIndependent Kooyong MP responds to Victorian government rezoning planMonique Ryan, the federal member for Kooyong, was up on ABC News Breakfast earlier to discuss the Victorian government’s rezoning plan:The announcement this weekend from the premier was for nine massive new developments just...

Industry bodies say over-ordering is eroding profitability as big sellers clamp down on practiceShoppers with a habit of returning goods bought online to retailers will send back £1,400 of products each this year, totalling £6.6bn, a UK report has found.Serial returners account for 11% of shoppers, but are on course to account for almost a quarter of the £27bn forecast returns this year, according...

In today’s newsletter: From stacking election boards to purging voter rolls, we look at the tactics that could sway key states• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. With two weeks to go until the US presidential election, the race could hardly be closer. But when you’re next frantically obsessing over the odds, keep in mind: it may not be as...

FOI request reveals then home secretary spent £9,803.20 on catering for flight to Kigali to sign deportation deal that never deported a single personThe in-flight catering for James Cleverly’s one-day round trip to Rwanda last December, while he was home secretary, cost £655 a head.Cleverly spent £165,561 chartering a private jet for his 11-hour visit to Kigali to sign Rishi Sunak’s deportation deal after...

Exclusive: Researchers find 61% of fresh waters in the UK contain high levels of phosphate and nitrateThe UK’s rivers contain a cocktail of chemicals and stimulants including caffeine, antidepressants and painkillers from water company sewage releases, polluting freshwaters at levels which can pose a risk to aquatic life, testing has found.Results from three days of testing in rivers by 4,531 volunteers for the environmental...

Motoring organisation estimates introduction of graduated driving licences would save at least 58 lives a yearNew drivers under 21 in the UK should be banned from carrying passengers of a similar age for six months after passing their test, a motoring organisation has urged.The AA estimated that introducing a graduated driving licence (GDL) would save at least 58 lives and prevent 934 people being...

Dunedin airport boss says the move is designed to keep traffic flowing in drop-off zones and enable ‘others to have hugs’Hugging your loved ones goodbye could land you in trouble at a New Zealand airport should your embrace linger too long.The international airport in Dunedin, a city in the South Island, has introduced a three minute cap on cuddles, as part of a broader...

Sweden and Finland plan to withdraw funding to safeguard nine languages defined as threatened by UnescoThe Indigenous parliaments of Sweden, Finland and Norway have warned that some Sámi languages could disappear if Stockholm and Helsinki press ahead with plans to withdraw funding that could hit a critical preservation body.Sámi Giellagáldu was created to safeguard, promote and strengthen the use of the nine Sámi languages...

Hundreds evacuate after Israeli military says it will strike areas linked to Al-Qard Al-Hassan association, a US-sanctioned banking systemSee all our Middle East coverageHundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes on Sunday night as blasts were heard across its southern suburbs after Israel’s military said it was preparing strikes on branches of a banking system linked to Hezbollah, a further escalation of Israel’s nearly...

Doctors say president sustained ‘great’ trauma to head and slight brain bleed, with long-haul travel cancelled as a precaution but is otherwise fit for dutyThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Sunday cancelled his trip to Russia for the Brics summit after a fall at home caused a minor brain haemorrhage.In a statement, the presidential office said Lula, 78, would participate via...

Pro-western leader Maia Sandu spoke as pivotal referendum on EU membership remained too close to callMoldova’s pro-western president, Maia Sandu, blamed an “unprecedented assault on our country’s freedom and democracy” by “foreign forces” on Sunday night, as a pivotal referendum on EU membership remained too close to call with most votes counted.Moldovans went to the polls earlier in the day to cast their vote...

Vice-president marks birthday with call for compassion, while rival visits McDonald’s and attacks opponentsKamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday on the campaign trail on Sunday while Donald Trump visited a McDonald’s and doubled down on his dangerous rhetoric labeling Democrats as “enemies from within,” as both candidates tried to shore up support in key states ahead of the US presidential election.Harris rallied Black voters...