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Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister after less than 18 months in office, throwing Labour into a leadership contest and raising urgent questions about who governs Britain next. Here’s what we know about what happens now.

A 28-year-old asylum seeker has been jailed for nine years after being found guilty of raping an 18-year-old woman. The court heard harrowing details of the attack that left the victim suffering severe psychological trauma.

A fresh round of Trump-Putin telephone diplomacy revived speculation on Monday 18 May 2026 of a possible bilateral meeting before the June G7 cut-off, against a backdrop of stalled Ukraine ceasefire talks, the Iran war, and Putin’s imminent state visit to Beijing.

A government minister has challenged Andy Burnham to produce a concrete roadmap for reaching the UK’s 3.5% of GDP defence spending target. The clash reflects a deeper divide over military funding priorities ahead of the autumn spending review.

Members of the European Parliament engaged in heated debate on 21 May over the cybersecurity risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence systems, with lawmakers divided over whether to impose mandatory security testing requirements on developers of frontier AI models or maintain a more flexible, risk-based approach. The plenary session saw MEPs grapple with how to…

Sara Canning, former partner of murdered journalist Lyra McKee, says she hopes the gunman who killed her is haunted every day by what he did. Six years on, no one has ever been charged with the shooting in Derry.