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Portugal and Spain are struggling with some of the EU’s worst housing crises, as immigration-driven population growth, bureaucracy and high construction costs combine to create severe property shortages.Such shortfalls are stoking public discontent and political tensions across Europe, driving up prices and rents, forcing people out of their neighbourhoods and leaving many unable to afford even a modest home. But the strain is particularly acute in the Iberian peninsula’s biggest cities. Portugal built 300,000 fewer properties than its population needed between 2021 and 2025, equivalent to 6.6 per cent of all the country’s households last year, according to a Bank of…

Ferrari’s first fully electric car, called Luce, in a handout image obtained by Reuters May 25, 2026, after the luxury sports car maker unveiled the model.Ferrari | Via ReutersA personalized model of Ferrari’s first fully electric vehicle has sold for $40 million in a charity sale, defying market skepticism and setting a record for a new car sold at auction.The Sotheby’s auction of the Luce “tailor made” at Monterey Car Week in California said the lot marked an “unrepeatable opportunity” to acquire the first production chassis of the Luce program, which featured a unique semi-gloss finish and other bespoke parts.…

Throughout London’s five heatwaves this summer, many workers have clung to one thought: they could escape the sweltering confines of their homes for the luxury of air-conditioned respite in the office.Not everyone has found relief: estate agents say the need for cooling has quickly risen up the list of tenant must-haves.While some older properties do not have air conditioning, others have systems that cannot withstand the high temperatures and have broken down. Those built in the last 20 to 30 years, such as most of the buildings in Mayfair, might offer only cooling units, which operate on evaporative methods, according…

It is the latest announcement ahead of a speech on Monday by Reform’s shadow chancellor Robert Jenrick to formally unveil the party’s welfare plans.”Forcing British workers to pay for the benefits of foreigners is not just economically illiterate but plain immoral,” Jenrick said in a statement.”People are more than happy to support their neighbours in hard times, but the British taxpayer cannot afford to subsidise everyone on the planet, especially those who have not paid in.”This year the government expects, external to spend a total of £322bn on welfare in Great Britain, or 10.6% of GDP, just over half of…

U.S. Navy sailors heave on a line during a fueling-at-sea on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln during the Operation Epic Fury attack on Iran from an undisclosed location March 10, 2026. U.S. Navy | Via ReutersU.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper on Sunday acknowledged mental health challenges aboard the USS Lincoln after reports that a sailor jumped overboard amid the aircraft carrier’s long Middle East deployment. “Here’s an important fact: Of the U.S. Navy’s 11 active aircraft carriers, the Lincoln currently has among the lowest number of cases related to mental health,” Cooper…

Before Farage quit his Clacton seat in July, Parliament’s standards watchdog had been investigating him for not declaring a £5m gift he received from billionaire Reform UK donor Christopher Harborne before he became an MP.He said the by-election was a “people versus the establishment” showdown, saying the “people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions”.Kerry Mitchell, who lives in Wix, said she had voted for Count Binface because he would have made for a “more credible, honest, responsible, not to say committed, MP than Nigel Farage”.The 61-year-old, who voted Labour in 2024, said: “Nigel Farage poses a real…

Most people received the blaring alert at 19:00 BST on Friday – and it came as a surprise given the government had not told people it was coming, as it has done for tests of the system.The notification, which cautioned against the use of disposable barbecues, naked flames or fireworks, was the biggest use yet of the emergency alert system and Prime Minister Andy Burnham urged the public to take it “seriously”.A Cabinet Office press release, posted to their website at about 18:45 on Friday, was missed by many in the media, which meant there was little warning to the…

Green Party leader Zack Polanski, and Labour MPs Bell Ribiero-Addy, Clive Lewis and Nadia Whittome are among the politicians to have signed the statement, alongside former England footballer Eni Aluko, National Education Union general secretary Daniel Kebede, and broadcaster Carol Vorderman.It calls for an “immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press”.Arday, 41, was found dead at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. He had resigned as a Cambridge professor of sociology of education on 5 August after allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements. He had denied the claims.Liverpool John Moores…

No 10: Full Confidence is not the only game based around Westminster’s wheeling and dealing.Fantasy Parliament, external is a browser-based game designed by another UK-based developer, Evan Roberts, which lets players draft their own fantasy league of real-world MPs, scoring points based on their real-life media coverage.With the strategy game’s Policy Tester, players can even type in proposals to a ChatGPT-style AI model, which then replies in the style of how it believes different groups of voters – such as Coastal Keith or Graduate Gemma – would react.Meanwhile, UK Politics Simulator, “built on real UK data down to ward level”,…

British-made drones are being used to strike targets in Russia for the first time.The drones, built by two separate British companies, have been used in mainland Russia in widespread and successful targeting of military and industrial targets, including refineries and warehouses of online retailer Wildberries. The strikes, first reported by the Sunday Times, external, are said to have caused more than £35bn in economic damage. A well-placed military source confirmed to the BBC the UK drones had been used.British manufactured Storm Shadow missiles had earlier been used in the conflict, although this new phase is having a far more decisive…