Teachers in England have voted overwhelmingly to accept a 5.5% pay rise, putting an end to months of negotiations and industrial action. Of those members who responded to the National Education Union’s snap poll, 95% voted to accept the 2024-25 offer, which will see schools receive an additional £1.2bn to cover the pay rise. As…

Wes Streeting may revive the use of a dedicated cancer strategy to tackle the UK’s second biggest killer after experts warned the Conservatives’ scrapping of it was “a disaster” for patients. The health secretary is considering publishing a new comprehensive plan for England, amid record numbers of people being diagnosed with the disease and NHS…

A New York judge on Monday formally vacated the homicide conviction of a man incarcerated for almost 24 years before starring in the award-winning movie Sing Sing about the rehabilitative effects of a prison arts program. Jon-Adrian “JJ” Velazquez fought back tears as he hugged friends and family outside the Manhattan district courtroom where he…

The town of Hilario Ascasubi near Argentina’s eastern Atlantic coast has a parrot problem. Thousands of the green, yellow and red birds have invaded, driven by deforestation in the surrounding hills, according to biologists. They bite on the town’s electric cables, causing outages, and are driving residents around the bend with their incessant screeching and…

A judge has denied a request from Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed to appeal her involuntary manslaughter conviction. After the shock dismissal of the case against actor Alec Baldwin in July, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyer challenged the conviction against her, arguing prosecutors withheld potentially critical evidence. But on Monday, the New Mexico judge, Mary Marlowe Sommer, denied the…

Simon Case has resigned as cabinet secretary and is due to leave at the end of the year. His departure kicks off a race to be his successor, with a job advert already circulated to attract a wide pool of applicants. To date the job of cabinet secretary has only ever been held by white…

An eight-year-old boy who died in a shooting in Cumbria has been named as Jay Cartmell. The boy sustained serious head injuries in the incident, which happened on land near the A66, north of Warcop, at about 2.50pm on Saturday. Police and paramedics attended the scene, and he was airlifted to hospital, where he later…