Here’s a word of advice to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Unless he wants to risk a smudge on his reputation of the sort that accompanies John Howard to this day: don’t get involved in conflict with Iran beyond limited naval engagement in a Gulf peace-keeping role. Illustration: Simon BoschCredit: When we read that Canberra is open to joining an international […]

Parents could be handed £100 on-the-spot fines if they leave their car running outside the school gates Transport Secretary Chris Grayling vowed to get tough on motorists leaving their engines ‘idling’ while parked Move is being hailed as way of reducing pollution as idling engines can produce more pollution than cars on the move Drivers are already liable for fines […]

Royal Navy officer arranges for a £20m military helicopter to visit pupils from private school (including his own) – at the taxpayers’ expense Merlin chopper landed in field near Ravenscourt Park Preparatory School, in Hammersmith, west London, last Friday  Pupils at £18,000-a-year-school chatted to the crew and had a look inside One resident said: ‘It seems a lot of taxpayers’ money […]

A roughly 4,000-year-old mud-brick Egyptian pyramid is opening to the public for the first time this week, according to the north African nation’s antiquities ministry. Interested in Egypt? The mud-brick Lahun — or El-Lahun — pyramid was first discovered by British archaeologist William Petrie in 1889 in Fayoum, about 60 miles southwest of Cairo. In 2009, archaeologists discovered a cache […]

England's chief coroner has criticised the lack of barriers to protect pedestrians on London Bridge at the end of a lengthy inquest into the killing of eight people during an extremist attack two years ago. Coroner Mark Lucraft said on Friday that the eight people, including two Australians, were "unlawfully killed" during a van and knife attack on June 3, […]

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case involving two former New Jersey officials convicted of felonies for causing gridlock near the George Washington Bridge to punish a mayor for not backing their boss, former Republican Gov. Chris Christie. The justices announced they would hear the case in the fall involving Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni that came […]

The aviation industry is not in carbon “denial” (Stop Heathrow expansion to save the planet, Editorial, 24 June). We are carbon emitters – and we are making huge efforts to reduce our 2% share of global carbon emissions. In 2009 we set tough CO2 targets, including carbon-neutral growth from 2020 and to cut emissions to half of 2005 levels by […]

A "SWEET" 12-year-old girl has become the third person to drown in just a few hours as the UK is hit with scorching temperatures. The schoolgirl, named locally as Somalian refugee Shukri Yahya Abdi, was tragically found in the River Irwell in Greater Manchester last night. Underwater search teams had been called in about 8pm, sadly discovering the young girl's body […]

Genoa’s deadly bridge is DEMOLISHED: Remains of ageing viaduct that caused one of modern Italy’s worst tragedies when it collapsed killing 43 people are blown up in six seconds of controlled explosions The ageing viaduct in the northern Italian city of Genoa gave way in August last year, killing 43 people  Today it was demolished in series of controlled explosions […]

Boiling Britain! Saharan Bubble will send sunseekers racing for the beach today as temperatures hit 81F – before climbing to a sweltering 88F at the weekend Three-day heatwave could see Britain’s hottest June day ever on Saturday, beating 1976 record of 96F (35.6C)  Met Office warns vulnerable people could die following 2003 heatwave when 2,000 people died in 10 days […]