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A record-breaking petition calling on the government to revoke Article 50 has passed six million signatures. The milestone was hit a day and a half after Britain was originally meant to have left EU, with the country's political future still uncertain. It is the most popular petition to have been submitted to the parliament website. The previous highest total of 4,150,260 was for a 2016 petition calling for a second referendum should the initial poll not provide a definitive enough result....

Vote Leave has been accused of conveniently dropping its appeal against a £61,000 referendum spending fine on Friday as MPs voted on Theresa May's withdrawal bill for the third time and March to Leave protesters descended on London. The official pro-Brexit campaign was fined in July for exceeding its £7 million spending limit for the vote. The campaign said at the time the findings were "wholly inaccurate" and politically motivated, but according to the Electoral Commission the appeal has now...

A Brexiteer has posted pictures of Liverpool's Champions League parade in 2005 in a bid to convince people of the scale of this week's March to Leave protest. Brendon Hope used a picture taken outside St George's Hall in Liverpool after The Reds won the prestigious European cup as evidence that "the whole of London turned up to welcome the arrival of the March to Leave". The tweet, which has garnered tens of thousands of interactions, goads users into sharing...

European elections are a near certainty after MPs rejected Theresa May's deal with the EU by 344 votes to 285. A 58-strong majority defeated the government on the day the UK was due to leave the EU. It means the UK has missed an EU deadline to delay Brexit to 22 May and leave with a deal. The prime minister said the UK would have to find "an alternative way forward", which was "almost certain" to involve holding European elections....

Theresa May’s motion on the EU withdrawal agreement will be batted away by 320 MPs in Parliament today, according to a betting firm. The Prime Minister’s two Brexit deals prior to this one were rejected, with 432 MPs voting no in January and 391 nays following that earlier this month. Now, on the day that Britain was supposed to officially break away from the EU, another of May’s withdrawal agreements will be knocked back, with a no deal Brexit looking...

Hollywood A-list star George Clooney has called for a boycott of nine hotels because of their links to Brunei. The state is planning to impose laws that will impose the death penalty, by stoning, for adultery and gay sex. The brutal legislation is supposed to be in place from next week. “Let that sink in. In the onslaught of news where we see the world backsliding into authoritarianism this stands alone,”  Clooney wrote in an opinion piece for Deadline. Clooney wants...

The Mini mum is just 8-11mm long. Other new species have been named Mini scule, with the largest, Miniature, a 'whopping' 15mm long.

The Gault asteroid is just 2.5 miles wide and is currently 214 million miles from the Sun.

BBC’s Newsnight political editor repeated what he was old by a Cabinet minister and it makes despairing footage. Nick Watt had earlier asked an unnamed Cabinet minister: “why is the Prime Minister holding a vote when she is pretty sure she will lose?” He said the minister responded using "very strong language": “F*** knows. I am past caring. It is like the living dead in here.” Mr Watt said the minister then told him that May's cabinet had “completely broken down.”...