Author: Henry

Maya Hawke has bought a house in her New York hometown, just a few blocks from her mother, Uma Thurman — timing that coincides with the actress filming her latest television project in the same town. The 27-year-old actress and singer told PEOPLE that she and her husband, musician Christian Lee Hutson, recently purchased the home. “I’m so excited to finally be able to put some roots down,” she said. The purchase comes as Hawke films The God of the Woods, Netflix’s adaptation of Liz Moore’s bestselling 2024 novel, in the same town where she grew up. Hawke said the…

The health secretary, James Murray, who took on the role in May, has defended government plans to use artificial intelligence to help direct NHS patients to the right care, after concerns were raised that the technology could put vulnerable people at risk. Speaking to the BBC, Murray said the aim was to “modernise” the NHS so that patients no longer needed to join the 8am rush of phone calls to their GP surgery. Under the system, built into the NHS App, patients answer a series of questions about their symptoms, with the tool adapting each question to their previous answers…

Andy Burnham has urged England football fans to seize the “golden chance” to stay in the pub into the early hours for the country’s World Cup last-16 match against Mexico, despite it falling on a school night. Burnham, the newly elected MP for Makerfield and the only declared candidate to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as Labour leader and prime minister, said he wanted the country to make the most of the occasion. In a video message wishing the team luck, he described the fixture as “a golden chance to be in the pub together at 1am on a school night,”…

A spokesperson for Nigel Farage has denied that the Reform UK leader broke parliamentary rules, after the Sunday Times reported he had failed to declare benefits provided by a long-standing ally in the year before he became an MP. The newspaper said George Cottrell, a cryptocurrency and gambling entrepreneur who was jailed in the United States in 2017 after pleading guilty to wire fraud, had funded security and social media staff for Farage and allowed him the use of a rented townhouse near Buckingham Palace. The two men have known each other for years; they were arrested together in 2016…

Four children were among eight people shot and wounded in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighbourhood on Saturday night, as New York City marked the Fourth of July with fireworks and other events for the 250th anniversary of American independence. Officers responded at around 10:37pm to reports of a shooting on the 2900 block of West 31st Street, the New York Police Department said, according to ABC News. All eight victims were taken to hospital by ambulance. Seven were in stable condition, while a 21-year-old woman was in critical condition after being shot in the chest, police said. The four children hurt…

Airport chiefs across Europe have added their voices to growing demands for Brussels to suspend its new border checks this summer, warning that queues already stretching to five hours could become unmanageable once the school holidays begin. At issue is the Entry/Exit System (EES), which requires non-EU citizens, including Britons, to have their fingerprints and photograph taken the first time they cross into the Schengen area. The system was delayed for years before finally going live in mid-April, but its rollout has been dogged by slow processing and technical failures, producing long queues even outside peak season. Marco Troncone, chief…

Donald Trump has offered to help broker an end to the war in Ukraine during a lengthy telephone call with Vladimir Putin, just days before the two leaders are due in the same room at a Nato summit in Turkey. The call, which lasted close to 90 minutes, took place on Saturday – the US Independence Day holiday – and was confirmed afterwards by Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. He said the two presidents had discussed a settlement in Ukraine, with Trump’s forthcoming appearance at the Nato summit in Ankara on 7 and 8 July factored into the conversation. Trump, Ushakov…

An Islamist extremist with confirmed links to the 2005 London bombings has been released from the secure psychiatric hospital where he had been detained, despite repeated warnings from police and a psychiatrist that he continues to pose a threat to national security. Haroon Aswat, 50, has been discharged from Bethlem Royal Hospital in Bromley, south-east London, the Telegraph understands, with a Home Office source confirming he has been transferred to another institution where he will receive specialist support. The move follows a High Court ruling last year that Aswat, originally from Batley in West Yorkshire, could be released once he…

Elon Musk posted about race and immigration in Britain far more frequently than about his own company’s historic stock market listing in the weeks leading up to SpaceX’s initial public offering, according to a Guardian analysis of his activity on X. Examining Musk’s posts, replies and reposts between 31 May and 12 June, the Guardian found he had posted 303 times on the subject of race and immigration, almost three-quarters of which related specifically to UK politics. Over the same window, he posted just 114 times about SpaceX itself — the company that, on 12 June, went public in a…

Jackie Apostel, the girlfriend of Cruz Beckham, has marked two years since undergoing major spinal surgery with a candid Instagram post encouraging others to embrace their scars rather than hide them. The Brazilian singer-songwriter, 30, lives with scoliosis, a condition in which the spine curves and twists, and underwent an extensive spinal fusion operation to stabilise her back. Posting on Saturday, she turned with her back to the camera to reveal the scar two years on, wearing a pair of Good American high-waisted jeans with her hair swept into a chignon. “Your scars are sexy,” she wrote alongside the image,…