Charlotte Tilbury tops list of UK’s richest beauty entrepreneurs

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Sunday Times estimates the celebrity makeup artist, who founded her brand in 2013, has amassed £350m fortune

Charlotte Tilbury has topped a list of the top 30 richest beauty entrepreneurs in the UK.

The entries on the Sunday Times’s inaugural Beauty Rich List have built their wealth from a range of products and services including skincare, hair care, makeup, bath bombs and tanning shops.

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Romania’s election body rejects far-right Diana Sosoaca’s presidential bid, approves George Simion – The Associated Press

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  1. Romania's election body rejects far-right Diana Sosoaca's presidential bid, approves George Simion  The Associated Press
  2. Romania bans second far-right hopeful from presidential election rerun  The Guardian
  3. Romanians rally to show support for Europe amid election tensions  Reuters
  4. Despite Russian-backed Georgescu barred from presidential race, Romania's far-right still aim to win  Kyiv Independent
  5. Romania far-right leader Simion cleared for presidential race  POLITICO Europe
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‘How can I not charge my wheelchair?’ The real effects of benefit cuts for millions of disabled people

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One of those waiting for Labour’s announcement explains why he depends on personal independence payments

Adam Gabsi is unequivocal on the subject of his personal independence payment: “It really is an essential lifeline. I don’t feel that I would be able to function without it.”

Gabsi receives his Pip disability benefit for multiple sclerosis, with which he was diagnosed 18 years ago, when he was 21.

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Downing Street considers U-turn on cuts to benefits for disabled people

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Controversial plans to cut personal independence payments (Pip) may be shelved after a tense cabinet meeting and backlash from Labour MPs

Ministers have left the door open to a humiliating U-turn on their highly contentious plans to cut benefits for disabled people, amid mounting uproar over the proposals across the Labour party.

Both Downing Street and the Department for Work and Pensions did not deny they were about to back­track on plans to impose a real-terms cut to the personal independence payment (Pip) for disabled people, including those who cannot work, by cancelling an inflation-linked rise due to come into force next spring.

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Pope Francis signals intention to remain in post with sign-off on three-year reform plan – CNN

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  1. Pope Francis signals intention to remain in post with sign-off on three-year reform plan  CNN
  2. Pope Francis, showing plans to continue on, starts new process for Catholic reforms  Yahoo
  3. Pope remains stable after month in hospital as he continues treatments and works from bedside  Fox News
  4. Pope Francis' health continues to improve, Vatican says  National Catholic Reporter
  5. Pope works on signature reform from hospital as pneumonia recovery continues  CBS News
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Hungary’s Orban vows crackdown on media, NGOs – DW (English)

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  1. Hungary's Orban vows crackdown on media, NGOs  DW (English)
  2. Hungary's Orbán, facing opposition surge, promises crackdown in speech laden with conspiracy theory  The Associated Press
  3. Hungary's opposition rallies as Orban pledges crackdown on media, NGOs  Reuters
  4. Hungary's Russia-friendly prime minister attacks the EU in nationalist speech  Euronews
  5. Orbán vows crackdown on ‘shadow army’ of political opponents  POLITICO Europe
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NSW Labor divided over Chris Minns’ plan to extend controversial youth bail laws

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Exclusive: MLC Stephen Lawrence tells party room government is putting state on ‘slippery slope’ to more punitive approach

The New South Wales premier is facing growing internal dissent over his plan to extend controversial youth bail laws, with one MP telling caucus the laws had put the government on a “slippery slope”.

Sources say Labor MLC Stephen Lawrence – a former barrister and one-time mayor of Dubbo – argued during a February meeting that the government was on a path whereby it could adopt further punitive approaches because the laws introduced a year ago weren’t working.

If crime wasn’t going down there could be calls for even tougher measures, leading to a dangerous downward spiral, Lawrence suggested.

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NSW police say off-duty officers’ shouts of ‘Allahu Akbar boom’ after dispute with Muslim man were ‘banter between friends’

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‘The chanting you heard was not directed at you in any way,’ inspector tells Sydney man who complained about neighbour’s Christmas party in Glenmore Park

A NSW police internal investigation has found that off-duty officers who allegedly shouted “Allahu Akbar boom” and “Hezbollah” at a Christmas party after a verbal dispute with a Muslim man who lived next door were indulging in “banter between friends”.

The incident allegedly took place on 13 December at Glenmore Park in western Sydney, after the man complained to his neighbours about water from their swimming pool leaking into his property.

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Tens of thousands attend anti-government protest in Serbia – BBC.com

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  1. Tens of thousands attend anti-government protest in Serbia  BBC.com
  2. Protesters flood Belgrade in one of biggest anti-government rallies  Reuters
  3. Protest Against Serbian Leader Draws 100,000 in Biggest Crowd Yet  The New York Times
  4. Over 100,000 people join protest rally in Belgrade against Serbia's president and government  The Associated Press
  5. Serbians stage huge protest in Belgrade against their president  The Guardian
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Zelensky Accuses Russia of Trying to Trap Ukraine’s Forces Amid Cease-Fire Talks – The New York Times

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  1. Zelensky Accuses Russia of Trying to Trap Ukraine’s Forces Amid Cease-Fire Talks  The New York Times
  2. Russian troops battle last Ukrainian forces in Kursk region  Reuters.com
  3. Zelenskiy Says Russia Planning ‘Encirclement’ in Border Region  Bloomberg
  4. Russia says it has recaptured key Kursk region town, as Trump says peace is ‘up to Russia now’  CNN
  5. Russia Overpowers Bold Ukrainian Military Venture in Kursk  The Wall Street Journal
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Pope remains in stable condition, shows gradual improvements from therapies – Vatican News – English

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  1. Pope remains in stable condition, shows gradual improvements from therapies  Vatican News - English
  2. Hospitalized Pope says ‘facing period of trial’, body ‘weak’  The Times of Israel
  3. Pope says he is facing 'period of trial' as he issues traditional Sunday prayer from hospital  Sky News
  4. Ailing Pope Francis works on signature reform from hospital as he recovers  Al Jazeera English
  5. Pope Francis, showing plans to continue on, starts new process for Catholic reforms  Yahoo
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The big question on Ukraine: is Trump ready to push Putin into peace? | Shaun Walker

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Russian leader’s antagonism to Zelenskyy and lack of interest in a ceasefire leaves colossal task for US

On paper, everyone is in agreement: Donald Trump says he wants a ­ceasefire; Kyiv’s ­negotiating team has already agreed to a 30-day ceasefire ­proposal at marathon talks with the Americans in Jeddah; and Vladimir Putin says he accepts the idea, albeit with a few “nuances”.

But Putin’s so-called nuances are bigger than mere wrinkles, and at the end of an intense week of diplomacy around Russia’s war in Ukraine, a ceasefire – never mind a sustainable peace – still looks to be something of a distant prospect.

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Rocket blasts off to bring stranded US astronauts home from the ISS at long last

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Launched by Nasa and SpaceX, the Falcon 9 is picking up Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose eight days on board the International Space Station became nine months

A long-awaited mission to return stranded US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station has been launched by Nasa and SpaceX.

The pair were due to spend eight days on the ISS in June, but technical problems with the experimental spacecraft that took them there have left them stuck on the orbital laboratory for nine months.

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