The Education Secretary has called on regulators to investigate why nearly twice as many private schools pupils are receiving extra time in exams compared to those in comprehensive schools. Figures show 27 per cent of pupils at non-selective state schools got extra time, compared with 42 per cent of their privately-educated counterparts. Bridget Phillipson said she was ‘concerned’ about the difference and had asked exams regulator Ofqual to look into the reasons behind it.

Furious Americans have slammed Hollywood’s ‘out of touch and snobby’ liberal elite after Alec Baldwin and Sharon Stone branded millions ‘uneducated’ for voting in Donald Trump. Baldwin and Stone’s remarks were met with furious backlash by their fellow Americans, who took to X to call the Hollywood stars ‘entitled, elitist snob losers’. One user shared a poster he said applied to Stone which states: ‘Your only job is to entertain us. To take us away from reality. Your personal opinion means nothing to us. […] Sing. Act. Shut up.’

Elon Musk has blasted Ben Stiller and even used one of his own slurs from the film Tropic Thunder on the actor for expressing doubts that the movie would have been greenlit in today’s woke climate. The Tesla billionaire – who has been named as co-head of Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – took to his own X platform to have a shot at the 58-year-old comedic actor. Elon reposted an X user’s screenshot of a DailyMail.com story about Stiller with the headline ‘Ben Stiller says woke America killed “edgier” comedy’ along a photo of one of Ben’s characters in Tropic Thunder named Simple Jack.

Russia is continuing work to put its ‘unstoppable’ Satan II intercontinental ballistic missile –  part of its terrifying strategic nuclear arsenal – on combat duty, Moscow’s state media has revealed. The Satan II missile, also referred to as the RS-28 Sarmat, is designed to deliver nuclear warheads to strike targets thousands of miles away in the United States or Europe, but its development has been dogged by delays and testing setbacks. In September, Putin faced humiliation after his Satan II missile exploded, obliterating Russia’s only test site for hypersonic weapons.

A Canadian man has been jailed for life in Dubai for taking medical use CBD and cannabis on the plane with him. Maurice Kevin O’Rourke, from Mississauga, Ontario, was prescribed CBD oil and cannabis – both of which are completely legal in Canada – to manage the chronic pain caused by the rare and life-threatening Addison’s disease. But when the 64-year-old transited through Dubai on his way to South Africa on July 3, he was detained for carrying his medical use CBD oil and cannabis in his luggage and taken to Al Awir prison.

A senior advisor to Kamala Harris admitted internal polls showed the vice president was never ahead of Donald Trump in the battleground states, and that they were running on hope on Election Day. David Plouffe said from the moment Harris entered the race she started behind Trump and that he was ‘surprised’ to see public polls showing her in the lead. ‘I mean, I think it surprised people because there were these public polls that came out in late September, early October, showing us with leads that we never saw,’ he said.