Treasury select committee also says ministers have moral obligation to reverse last year’s repayment threshold freeze ...

For Belgium, Monday’s win over the US was doubly sweet. They advanced to the World Cup quarter-finals, as well as overcoming what they saw as injustice ...

The tournament co-hosts wilted against Belgium for a 4-1 defeat, costing them a quarter-final spot. We look at the best images from the showdown in Seattle ...

The United States are out of the World Cup after Belgium eliminated the co-hosts in the last 16 at Seattle Stadium on Monday night ...

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development ...

I joined Marilyn Monroe, Walter White, Ozzy Osbourne and other tribute artists on a cruise where imitation is its own art form ...

Our new PM will be hit by multiple crises when he enters No 10. Success or failure will depend on the decisions he makes in first 100 days, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ...

Several top Democratic figures call on beleaguered Maine Senate candidate, who denies accusation, to step down ...

Thousands of women are killed in dowry disputes each year, despite the practice being banned in 1961 ...

By selling AI glasses as aspirational, cool and fashion-forward, tech elites are trying to pacify their entry into the mainstream world ...

The formidable actor talks about the challenge of finding meaty characters, tough times in the US – and co-starring with her dad’s hero Kenneth Branagh in The Cherry Orchard ...

Madeleine Finlay hears from the writer Robert Macfarlane and from Jess Painter, a member of the RSPB’s Youth Council ...