Tim Scott defended fellow US South Carolina Republican senator Darline Graham’s knowledge of national security issues ahead of their state’s runoff election on Tuesday. Graham, who was appointed to fill the Senate seat held by her brother Lindsey Graham after his sudden death in July, is in a Repub»»»

The BBC's top executives enjoyed six-figure wage rises as rank-and-file staff were offered increases of just 1.5 per cent, The Mail on Sunday has found. The largesse is the latest sign of runaway pay at the top of the Beeb, where a record 130 executives now earn more than £178,000 a year – among th»»»