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A shutdown of government spending on certain departments is set to last until January, Donald Trump’s new acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has warned. Spending stopped flowing to many public employees in the United States on Friday after Trump and Congress failed to agree on a budget for his proposed wall. Trump refused a lower sum as a compromise and made good on his threat of a partial shutdown of government spending, changing his mind on an earlier temporary...

The UK's largest press agency, SWNS, is showcasing 100 of the Best Press Photos of 2018, as chosen by their picture editors. You can vote for your favourite.

Presenter Iain Lee saved a man's life on air after he called to say he overdosed. He has been credited with helping save a suicidal man's life by keeping him on the phone for 30 minutes until an ambulance arrived. The man, identified only as Chris, called during Lee's talkRADIO show on Wednesday and said he had taken an overdose. Listen here 

The Radio 5 Live presenter was discussing plans with co-host Rachel Burden when he suddenly confessed he wasn’t feeling much festive cheer. The Scot said he is often called on to be peacemaker during family rows which he says are “pretty full on”. After saying he was putting on Christmas dinner for his family this year, he added: “I am slightly dreading Christmas lunch. “We have got my brother-in-law, sister-in-law and there are going to be two people at the...

The largest ad agency group in the world, WPP, has announced plans to simplify its business model by closing or merging offices and cutting 3,500 jobs worldwide. The move has led to a sharp rise in the company’s share price (currently872.0), giving it a market value of around £11 billion. Should other agencies follow its lead? The announcement comes at the end of a tumultuous year for WPP, with a change of CEO and some disappointing third-quarter figures, which led...

As Theresa May's grip on power looks more weak and wobbly than ever, conflicting reports coming from Westminster on whether parliament's meaningful vote on her Brexit agreement will go ahead or not on Tuesday, Andy Serkis dropped this brilliant video titled "LEAKED: Footage from Inside No. 10 Downing Street!" The Hollywood legend used the acting and animation genius that made his Gollum performance in Lord of the Rings movies so memorable to devastating effect in this short clip. And just as...

O2 customers were left in a state of frenzy yesterday following a network blackout that saw them lose access to its 4G network. BBC presenter Dan Walker tweeted that he is "currently having to talk to people and look them in the face" after the outage, which he found "very disconcerting". The data glitch occurred after new research found face-to-face conversations are becoming a thing of the past as high-tech devices lead us to live 'isolated' lifestyles. A survey of...

The 57-year-old Scot suffered concussion for 12 months afterwards and was often mistaken for being drunk

Boris Johnson has found himself in hot water again. Only a few weeks after his water cannons were sold off at a huge loss. Now he has been told to apologise, in Parliament, after he repeatedly failed to register payments from his newspaper column and books.The totals involved with the nine late-registered payments was £52,722.80 In a report, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, said that Boris admitted he had failed to register payments in time on nine occasions in...