British tennis bans transgender women from ALL competitive female matches - including internal club competitions - after World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka backed sport's new mandatory sex testing
It comes after the Women's Tennis Association introduced new transgender eligibility rules, backed by world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka, which implemented genetic testing.
Britons make their biggest life changes - including moving abroad, swapping careers or starting a business - in their thirties, survey reveals
Those who move abroad do it at 31, career changes take place at 32, entrepreneurs can expect to start a business at 33 and we are most likely to launch a side hustle at 34, a survey suggests.
Prison officers who both had illicit affairs with brothers serving time for running multi-million pound drugs operation are jailed themselves
Jai Gascoyne, 25, and Elle Walton, 27, were working at Buckley Hall Prison near Rochdale when they struck up relationships with criminals they were meant to be guarding.
Wasted medicines cost NHS at least £480m a year and could fill 75 Olympic-size swimming pools
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) estimates that 3,400 tonnes worth of partially used medicines were disposed of in England in 2024/25.
Cleaner unearths 35-year-old Mars bar hidden in hoarder's house - and it looks GIANT due to 'shrinkflation'
Cleaner Victoria Gordon was tidying a home when she uncovered a 35-year-old Mars bar - which looked gargantuan.
Almost one in five student loans in UK handed to foreign nationals as critics warn British taxpayers could be left footing multi-billion-pound bill
New figures show non-British citizens received around £4billion in tuition fee and maintenance loans in the last academic year.
Jon Venables could face public parole hearing as James Bulger's mother demands son's killer 'face up to crimes'
Jon Venables was 10-years-old when he and Robert Thompson , also 10, tortured and killed the two-year-old after luring him away from his mother Denise Fergus.
A-level grades bonanza predicted with top marks to be record high outside of Covid
New analysis from the University of Buckingham suggests almost three in ten entries will get at least an A, with almost one in ten getting an A*.
Labour failing women and girls with early release scheme, former Home Office minister Jess Phillips warns
Jess Phillips urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham this week to prioritise women's safety by blocking thousands of domestic abusers from being released from jail early.
Reform's Nigel Farage and Richard Tice sue National Crime Agency for 'illegal leak of financial information'
The Reform UK leader and his deputy lodged papers at the High Court yesterday, seeking damages of 'more than £25,000' from Britain's FBI.
Two women dead. A third traumatised for life. God knows how many assaulted on the Tube. All victims of a sick man - and an utterly broken justice system, writes REBECCA CAMBER
On May 29 last year, a young woman, Tanya, boarded a Tube train. As it was rush-hour, the carriage was packed and she found herself standing in close proximity to a man with his back to her.
OpenAI pledges to add Astra security as Anthropic loosens Fable's leash
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
Can a £23 fragrance beat the £230 original? Knock-off perfumes used to smell bad and look worse. Now ROSIE GREEN reveals the new era of quality designer-inspired scents from just £16
Time was, knock-off perfumes smelt bad and looked worse. Now a new generation is changing all that, and Rosie Green is on their scent
Is there anything 'Foxy Knoxy' won't do for attention - or money? Amanda Knox's one-woman Edinburgh fringe comedy show reopens old wounds for Meredith Kercher's family
The stage has been styled to look like a child's bedroom. Toys are scattered across the floor, picture books lie abandoned and a wicker laundry basket overflows.
Instant karma! Moment thug who hurled glass bottles at moving police car is arrested
Dramatic footage shows the thug's instant karma after the enraged police officer arrested him on suspicion of criminal damage.
SPOT THE DUPE: Can you tell the difference between the £187 version of this lace cami, and the one for £12?
A lace cami is a summer classic, but do you need to spend on a designer label? See if you can tell the difference between the £187 version and the one for £11.49
Virginia Governor To Intervene In Dominion-NextEra Merger
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an opinion piece from the Washington Post, written by Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger: NextEra Energy, a Florida-based utility company, has filed paperwork to buy Dominion Energy for about $67 billion, creating the largest regulated electric utility in the world. Virginia's State Corporation Commission is the regulatory body tasked with reviewing the application, and the SCC's commissioners will ultimately decide whether to approve, deny or impose new conditions on any potential merger.
As a Virginian, I am deeply skeptical about whether selling our primary state-regulated utility to an out-of-state company is good for the commonwealth. I have serious questions about what this deal would mean for us. And as governor, I intend to get answers and be a voice for Virginians in the process. That is why I will be taking the legal step of "intervening" in this proposed merger, which means that as governor, I will formally request to be a party to the case.
I know this action is unprecedented by a Virginia governor -- but so, too, is the size of this proposed merger and its potential impact on the commonwealth. Virginians deserve to know that their leaders are laser-focused on ensuring that their needs are part of the SCC review. "If two large corporations stand to benefit financially from this merger, so, too, should the Virginians who pay the bills," said Spanberger. "That is why any potential deal must deliver a more affordable energy bill with sustained, long-term energy cost savings."
By formally intervening in the merger review, Spanberger's administration would gain legal standing to participate directly in the case, request detailed information, raise concerns, and advocate for conditions that benefit people in the state. She says the goal is to push for lower long-term energy costs, protect utility jobs, and ensure any new owner continues investing in reliable, affordable and cleaner power.
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Labour prepares to relax net zero targets after admitting 'affordability challenges'
The energy secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh said she would not let Ed Miliband's 'clean pledge' come at a cost for households.
Katie Price makes major U-turn on cosmetic surgery as she reveals she she's stopped having filler in her bottom due to fears she 'will die'
The former glamour model, 48, made a major cosmetic surgery U-turn as she revealed she is no longer making tweakments to her bottom.
RICHARD EDEN: Why former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams refused to let Charles wed at St George's Chapel
Meghan Markle wed Prince Harry at St George's Chapel despite being a divorcee. But King Charles was barred from marrying Queen Camilla at the same Windsor church 13 years earlier.