Hillary Clinton – the former US secretary of state who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump amid a scandal over her use of a private server for classified emails – reacted to Monday’s news of a leak of highly sensitive military plans at the White House by saying: “You have got to be…

The accused killer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, is asking for a laptop in jail, but just for legal purposes – not for communicating with anyone – as he awaits trial. In a court filing made public late on Monday, Luigi Mangione’s lawyers proposed that he get a laptop configured solely to let him…

No 10 says Signal leak won’t stop UK sharing secrets with US – but pushes back at Vance/Hegseth ‘freeloading’ claims Downing Street has rejected suggestions that Britain is a “freeloading” country that expects the US to meet its defence needs. At the lobby briefing this morning, the PM’s spokesperson spoke at length about the contribution…

The double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen described a childhood marked by fear and manipulation when he took the witness stand on Tuesday in a Norwegian court to testify against his father and former coach. Gjert Ingebrigtsen has pleaded not guilty to charges of physically abusing two of his seven children, namely the track athlete and…

The truth is out there … it is just not quite as exciting as was hoped. A large, glowing spiral that lit up the skies over the UK on Monday night and prompted speculation of an alien encounter is believed to have been caused by a SpaceX rocket. The growing swirl, visible for several minutes…

The Producers star Nathan Lane says that “homophobia is alive and well” in Hollywood and that being an out gay actor cost him roles. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lane said that his breakthrough film role in the 1996 comedy The Birdcage, in which he played a flamboyant drag queen in a long-term relationship…

Sexism, harassment and violence against women are rife in parliaments across the Asia-Pacific region, according to a damning report published on Tuesday that lays bare the scale of abuse faced by women in politics. Based on interviews with 150 female MPs and parliamentary staff across 33 countries across the region – including Australia, Mongolia, India,…

Gérard Depardieu has admitted in court to grabbing by the hips a woman who accuses him of sexual assault, but denied this was assault and said any crude comments he may have made were because of his bad mood. A towering figure of French cinema, Depardieu, 76, has faced a growing number of sexual assault…