Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed the UK sent an incredible 470 delegates to the UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan. Britain’s huge delegation to the COP29 talks has left a massive carbon footprint – despite Labour’s zealous drive towards Net Zero – and cost taxpayers millions. The staggering environmental and financial cost comes despite the summit being deemed ‘no longer fit for purpose’, with leaders of some of the biggest polluting countries, including US President Joe Biden and China’s President Xi, shunning talks.

Are your hands just cold, or could you be suffering from a troublesome condition that affects roughly one in six Brits? Now a simple 1-minute quiz can tell you if you have Raynaud’s disease — the weather-related condition characterised by colour-changing fingertips. Raynaud’s is a disorder that affects blood circulation, causing a temporary narrowing of the arteries in reaction to certain triggers including cold weather.

When Donald Trump is inaugurated as America’s 47th president on January 20, the event will mark the official start of his second term in office with carefully stage-managed images that will be seen around the world. Within hours of the event, Trump will take his seat behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office and launch what he calls ‘the biggest mass deportation in American history’. While the expulsion of illegal immigrants was a focal point of Trump’s election campaign, the precise details of how he intends to accomplish his goal of removing as many as 20 million people from US soil have largely remained unknown.

A teenager has been handed an indefinite sentence after shaking his partner’s baby to death, causing ‘catastrophic’ brain injuries, when he was 16-years-old. Carl Alesbrook, now aged 19, caused whiplash-type injuries, bleeding on the brain and multiple bone fractures to four-month-old Elijah Shemwell seven weeks after meeting his mother, India Shemwell, in November 2021. Elijah died on January 5, 2022, three days after he was found limp, pale and drowsy at Shemwell’s home in Belper, Derbyshire.

A Los Angeles pro-Israel lesbian claims she has been exiled by the queer community for supporting President-elect Donald Trump. ‘I definitely feel like I’m on an island alone. The queer people have turned their backs on me, and I’m queer, so it’s very painful,’  San Fernando Valley’s Tanya Tsikanovsky told Fox News. ‘Ever since I publicly said I was voting for Trump, I am no longer welcome in the [LGBTQ] social spheres they provide.

Elon Musk has met a leading Iranian official ahead of attempts by the incoming Donald Trump administration to calm tensions in the Middle East. Not content with taking the axe to America’s bloated bureaucracy on behalf of the incoming President, the billionaire is turning his hand to foreign policy. The Tesla tycoon – appointed by the President-elect to lead a new US Department of Government Efficiency – spent more than an hour meeting Iran’s ambassador to the UN, it was reported yesterday.