The UK's first professional women's gaming tournament of its kind starts on Saturday. Four teams of professional gamers will play the first-person shooter game Valorant, which is the most-watched esports game in women's leagues. It is the first time Europe's best teams have battled it out in the UK, and …...Read More

The Sun newspaper's publisher has lost a bid to push back a possible full High Court trial in relation to unlawful information gathering claims. There are 42 existing cases against News Group Newspapers (NGN), including one brought by Prince Harry, and a full trial of some of the claims is …...Read More

Fifteen former soldiers and an alleged IRA member investigated for perjury during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry will not face charges. Police had previously asked Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service (PPS) to consider a file relating to allegations of murder and attempted murder. At the time, the PPS said it would …...Read More

Nicola Sturgeon has described her personal situation as "incredibly difficult" after her husband was charged in connection with the embezzlement of SNP funds. Peter Murrell, who was chief executive of the party until March 2023, was rearrested on Thursday amid a long-running Police Scotland investigation into the SNP's finances, dubbed …...Read More

A British video gamer who faked a hostage situation leading to another man suffering life-changing injuries after armed units were tricked into shooting him has been sentenced to jail. Robert Walker-McDaid, 28, from Coventry was one of the men involved in this "swatting" incident in February 2015. The term means …...Read More

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted his Rwanda plan will finally get through parliament on Monday, telling reporters: "We will sit there and vote until it's done." The controversial scheme, which aims to see asylum seekers arriving in the UK on small boats deported to the African nation, has faced …...Read More

The Spectator's theatre critic has boasted of visiting a prostitute in an article after he became aroused by a "beautiful historian" giving a lecture. Lloyd Evans was widely condemned for the column - with some asking why it was ever published. In it, he describes heading to Cambridge University for …...Read More

A Tory activist who reported an MP over claims he misused party funds has told Sky News she is disappointed by the way her complaint has been handled. Mark Menzies voluntarily quit the Conservative parliamentary party this week after a report in The Times claimed he called his ex-campaign manager …...Read More

Former prime minister Boris Johnson has breached government rules by being "evasive" about his links to a hedge fund that set up a meeting between him and the president of Venezuela, a watchdog has said. Mr Johnson raised a few eyebrows earlier this year after his spokesman confirmed he had …...Read More

An antisemitism campaigner has been threatened with arrest yards from a pro-Palestine march as a Metropolitan Police officer said his presence was "antagonising". A video clip, posted on social media, showed Gideon Falter being told by police he was "quite openly Jewish" and causing a "breach of peace". The chief …...Read More