Mayors should be given major new powers, according to a report by the Starmerite thinktank Labour Together, which comes as officials put the finishing touches to a devolution paper due in the coming weeks. The report recommends using city and regional mayors to road-test new public sector schemes before they are rolled out nationally, and…

Oasis have expanded their phenomenally successful reunion tour to Australia, with a pair of gigs in Melbourne and Sydney. The band will play Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on 31 October 2025, followed by Sydney’s Accor Stadium on 7 November. Tickets for the Melbourne show go on sale at 10am on Tuesday 15 October, while tickets for…

Tunisia’s president, Kais Saied, has secured a second five-year term with a landslide victory, although the election had one of the lowest turnouts in the north African country’s history. The Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) declared on Monday evening that Saied had won 90.7% of the vote in Sunday’s election, on a turnout of…

Police searching for Victoria Taylor have said there is “no information to suggest any form of third-party involvement” in her disappearance, as they revealed a new sighting of her on the day she went missing. Taylor, 34, disappeared from her home in Malton, North Yorkshire, on Monday last week, and a number of her personal…

An experienced vet has been reprimanded for taking home a patient’s cat that she was told to euthanise and charging nearly £500 for the animal’s care in Suffolk. Janine Parody decided against putting down the ill eight-month-old feline named Shadow in 2021 and, contrary to the owner’s wishes, treated him. The vet, who had an…

Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians such as Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, has died. She was 91. Houston died on Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter-in-law, Pat Houston, told the Associated…

A relaxation of official rules around the correct use of apostrophes in German has not only irritated grammar sticklers but triggered existential fears around the pervasive influence of English. Establishments that feature their owners’ names, with signs like “Rosi’s Bar” or “Kati’s Kiosk” are a common sight around German towns and cities, but strictly speaking…

Four people have been taken to hospital after a school bus carrying 43 school pupils and a driver overturned in a field in County Down on Monday. Photographs on social media showed children in uniform walking from the blue doubledecker bus, which had a shattered windscreen. The Northern Ireland ambulance service (NIAS) indicated most of…