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Iran plane crash: Ukraine's president calls on US and allies to share evidence – live Volodymyr Zelenskiy to discuss investigation with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo Plane shot down by accident, western officials believeA visual guide to the Iran plane crash 11.55am GMTUkraine’s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, has said on Twitter that he and the Ukrainian president have met with US embassy officials and obtained “important data” about the plane crash.Prystaiko gave no further details but said the data would be “processed by our specialists”.Разом з Президентом Володимиром З ...

Skype audio graded by workers in China with 'no security measures' Exclusive: former Microsoft contractor says he was emailed login after minimal vettingA Microsoft programme to transcribe and vet audio from Skype and Cortana, its voice assistant, ran for years with “no security measures”, according to a former contractor who says he reviewed thousands of potentially sensitive recordings on his personal laptop from his home in Beijing over the two years he worked for the company.The recordings, both deliberate and accidentally invoked activations of the voice assistant, as well as some Skype phone calls, were simply accessed by Microsoft workers through a web app running in Google’s Chrome browser, on their personal laptops, over the Chinese internet, according to th...

Meghan returns to Canada as Queen calls for a 'workable solution' Fallout continues over royal couple’s decision to ‘step back’ from monarchyThe Duchess of Sussex has returned to Canada as the Queen and other senior royals took decisive action and ordered their teams to find a “workable solution” to Prince Harry and Meghan’s future roles.The couple had only recently arrived in the UK after spending an extended festive break in the Commonwealth country but she is now back with the couple’s baby son, Archie, who remained behind, reportedly looked after by a nanny and friends of the duchess. Continue reading... Go to Source

Woman posed as boy to sexually assault up to 50 girls, say police Gemma Watts, 21, faces jail after pleading guilty to seven sexual assault and grooming charges A woman posed as a teenage boy to sexually assault up to 50 girls as young as 14 after grooming them online, police have revealed.Gemma Watts, 21, travelled the country by train to meet the youngsters, who believed they were in a relationship with a boy close to their own age. Continue reading... Go to Source

Clive Lewis: Labour must push for proportional representation Leadership hopeful stresses need for radical change, saying party must act ‘or it will die’Labour must embrace proportional representation and learn to work with other parties among other radical changes, the leadership contender Clive Lewis has said, adding that the party “needs to modernise, or it will die”.In a speech formally launching his campaign, the Norwich South MP said Labour needed to become less centralised and more collaborative, warning that debate was being stifled by “sectarianism and tribalism”. Continue reading... Go to Source

Tehran crash: plane downed by Iranian missile, western officials believe UK officials say they have seen intelligence suggesting missile brought down plane The Ukrainian passenger jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday was accidentally shot down by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile, western security officials believe.UK sources told the Guardian that British officials had seen intelligence that suggested that the plane was hit by an Iranian air defence missile. Continue reading... Go to Source

Hungary for Brexit: Orbán praises Johnson and Trump Far-right leader, known as conspiracy theorist, backs PM as ex-No 10 aide predicts close ties Hungary’s far-right prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has given a ringing endorsement to Boris Johnson and Brexit, offering a pointer as to which European capitals are likely to be friendliest to post-Brexit Britain.Orbán said Johnson and Donald Trump were “the most courageous, the most dynamic and the most ready to effect change” of all the politicians in the world today. The admiration is mutual: it emerged this week that Tim Montgomerie, a former aide of Johnson, said he expected Britain and Hungary to forge a “special relationship” after Brexit, and praised Orbán’s thinking on the &ldq...

'Rogue royals'? Pundits furious over Harry and Meghan's step back Announcement by pair that they are stepping back from public life brings hysterical response The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to step back from public life has provoked vitriolic attacks on the couple and hyperbolic predictions on what it could mean for the monarchy.The announcement came after Prince Harry and Meghan criticised media intrusion and launched legal action against the Mail on Sunday. This, along with reports that the couple’s decision has upset the Queen, appears to have fuelled the ferocity of the reaction. Continue reading... Go to Source

Arctic treasures exposed by melting ice to go on display Items made from 28,000-year-old mammoth tusks among artefacts at British MuseumRare 28,000-year-old archaeological finds excavated from rapidly thawing ground in Siberia are to go on display for the first time at the British Museum as part of an exhibition on the history of the Arctic and its people.Sewing needles and jewellery made from walrus ivory as well as carved mammoth ivory decorative objects are being lent by the Russian Academy of Science for a show that will be the biggest of its kind. Continue reading... Go to Source

Patients suffer record delays because of pressure at A&E units Ambulance crews in England having to look after more people for longer this winter Record numbers of patients are being forced to stay with ambulance crews for an hour or more this winter because overwhelmed A&E units are too busy to admit them.A total of 81,012 patients in England have had to remain with ambulance personnel for at least half an hour because of delays getting into an emergency department in the five weeks since winter began. That is the highest number since records began in 2017-18. Continue reading... Go to Source