House speaker condemns Trump’s ‘betrayal’Trump reportedly pressed Ukraine for dirt on Joe BidenPelosi announces impeachment inquiry into Trump over Ukraine scandal 2.15am BST Officials within the Trump administration tried to prevent Trump from meeting with or calling Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky out of concern that Trump would use such occasions Read more
A shallow earthquake near Mirpur has struck northeastern Pakistan, tearing huge cracks in roadsAt least 19 people have been killed and 300 injured after a shallow earthquake struck northeastern Pakistan, tearing car-sized cracks into roads and heavily damaging infrastructure.The quake sent people in Lahore and Islamabad running into the streets. Read more
During holiday, Janarthanan Vijayaratnam was killed with two other men and his wife is now missingRelatives have demanded answers after a British resident was shot dead by police while on holiday in Malaysia, and his wife went missing at the same time.Janarthanan Vijayaratnam, a 40-year-old Sri Lankan national and UK Read more
Beauty salons AKJ Aesthetics and Queen of Aesthetics used images of celebrity to promote ‘filler package’The advertising watchdog has banned Instagram ads run by two beauty companies for claiming their procedures could make customers look like Kylie Jenner, the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner American reality TV family.Beauty salons AKJ Read more
Psychiatrists call for inquiry after report on private units, many occupied by NHS patientsInspectors have found 28 privately run mental health units to be “inadequate” in the past three years, prompting fears that vulnerable patients are receiving poor and unsafe care.The disclosure of such widespread substandard care in mental health Read more
‘We never discuss the content of conversations between the prime minister and Her Majesty’ Via: Government refuses to say whether Boris Johnson apologised to Queen in phone call after Supreme Court ruling
MPs vow to use all parliamentary mechanisms to stop prime minister forcing through a no-deal Brexit Via: Boris Johnson faces calls to resign and early election as he returns to Westminster after humiliating Supreme Court defeat
Panel of 11 justices unanimously found the suspension of parliament was ‘unlawful, void and to no effect’ Via: Boris Johnson's Supreme Court defeat hailed as 'huge victory' for rule of law and democracy
Campaigners warn austerity is pushing more children and young people into street violence Via: Youth services 'decimated by 69 per cent' in less than a decade amid surge in knife crime, figures show
Dylan Hutchison, his wife Charelle and their son Leo (pictured), from Glenrothes, Fife, were hit with the heartless demand after the collapse of their travel agent Thomas Cook. Via: Thomas Cook customers say they were turfed out of Benidorm hotel