Nice may be at the heart of France’s upmarket Mediterranean coast, but violent drug gangs making €1.5m a month are colonising part of it

The sight of the gun tucked into the man’s trousers told us it was time to go. We had been in one of France’s most notorious estates for several hours, trying to understand life on the frontline of the country’s spiralling drug war.

Seeing three people he did not know and a camera, he decided enough was enough. “You, where do you live?” he said, rushing towards us from the foot of a tower block where he had parked his scooter. “Don’t talk back to me, I’ll break your head in. Get out of here.”

As he attempts to repair relations, the prime minister is being forced closer to a choice between the US and Europe

As Keir Starmer surveys the wreckage of the US-Ukrainian relationship caused by the Oval Office bar-room fight, the UK prime minister is clearly intent on trying to repair the diplomatic damage, but it may be that the mood of mutual antagonism not just in the US, but in Europe, is too great.

It is not as if Starmer, to use Trump’s blunt phraseology, has many cards left to play. He had already played them, and his hand was not strong enough to prevent the US-Ukraine breakdown.

Two other teenagers were also injured in incident at what police believe was a flat party

Five teenagers have been arrested after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed at what police believe was a flat party.

Two other people, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were also injured in the incident.

Putin stays silent but Russian politicians and media outlets crow with delight after the ambush of Ukraine’s leader

Russian officials and Moscow’s media outlets reacted with predictable glee to the dramatic clash between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.

Posting on social media, Dmitry Medvedev, Putin’s deputy on the security council and former president, called the exchange “a brutal dressing-down in the Oval Office”.

Putin stays silent but Russian politicians and media outlets crow with delight after the ambush of Ukraine’s leader

Russian officials and Moscow’s media outlets reacted with predictable glee to the dramatic clash between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.

Posting on social media, Dmitry Medvedev, Putin’s deputy on the security council and former president, called the exchange “a brutal dressing-down in the Oval Office”.

Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue won the Toa Whakaihuwaka title at Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025. Ngāti Whakaue were the eighth of 12 teams to perform at the Pukekura/Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth. The team were joint runners up in 2023 but went one better this year as they dedicated their performance to Sir Robert Gillies, the last surviving member of the Māori Battalion during the second world war, who died in November 2024. Speaking after the performance, Ngāti Whakaue's leader, Te Ngāwari Wright, said: 'One thing that we changed from the last Matatini was to bring our ideas together into a cohesive theme, that is love. After the passing of our elder'