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Microsoft has said it is "investigating an issue" after users reported problems with Outlook and Teams.In a post on X, Microsoft 365 Status said: "We're investigating an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or functionality within Microsoft Teams calendar." Microsoft Exchange Online is a platform for business communication that has a mail server and cloud apps for email, contacts, and calendars.Down Detector, a website that tracks outages, said […]

A former Metropolitan Police commissioner has urged ministers to "look closely" at a thinktank report calling for non-crime hate incidents to be abolished.Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe served as the chief of the UK's largest police force from 2011 to 2017. He has backed a new report from the thinktank Policy Exchange, released on Monday, that calls non-crime hate incidents (NCHI) a "distraction" from policing priorities.A NCHI, as defined by the government, […]

Bar staff will be trained to deal with incidents of drink spiking under government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.Workers in the night-time economy will be instructed on how to spot and prevent cases as well as help "collect evidence" under a new pilot programme to be rolled out from December, Number 10 announced. The plan is for up to 10,000 bar staff across the country to be […]

Leicester City have sacked their manager Steve Cooper after a run of bad form, leaving them just above the Premier League's relegation zone.In a statement, the club said assistant manager Alan Tate and first team coach and analyst Steve Rands have also left. It said: "Steve, Alan and Steve depart with our thanks for their contribution during their time with the club and with our best wishes for the future."Men's […]

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has won the Formula One world title for a fourth straight year.His victory was confirmed after finishing fifth at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Mercedes' George Russell won the race. Image: Pic: Reuters The 27-year-old Dutchman becomes just the sixth driver in Formula One history to win four titles or more, after outscoring Lando Norris who took the chequered flag in only sixth.Verstappen is now […]

Zayn Malik paid tribute to former One Direction bandmate Liam Payne as he kicked off his solo tour.Payne died last month of multiple traumas and "internal and external haemorrhage" after falling from a third-floor balcony in Buenos Aires, according to a post-mortem. Images from Leeds's O2 Academy on Saturday showed Malik - who delayed his Stairway To The Sky tour due to Payne's funeral on Wednesday - shared a tribute.A […]

With six days to go before Friday's historic Commons showdown on assisted dying, it's the opponents who are turning up the heat.The explosive attack on the bill by Shabana Mahmood follows the poignant and personal plea from Gordon Brown to MPs to reject the bill. We knew the justice secretary is opposed to the bill. She has already made that clear. But her attack on it, in a letter to […]

The Princess of Wales has invited children who survived the stabbing attack in Southport to her annual Christmas carol concert.Kensington Palace said they had been invited to attend her fourth Together At Christmas service at Westminster Abbey on 6 December. It comes as Kate, who has made few public appearances since revealing in March she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy for an undisclosed form of cancer, made a surprise visit with […]

Potential suitors have again begun circling ITV, Britain’s biggest terrestrial commercial broadcaster, after a prolonged period of share price weakness and renewed questions about its long-term strategic destiny.Sky News has learnt that a number of possible bidders for parts or all of the company, whose biggest shows include Love Island, have in recent weeks held early-stage discussions about teaming up to pursue a potential transaction. TV industry sources said this […]