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All Blacks offer benchmark for Irish great expectations

Victory for Ireland over New Zealand this evening won't wash away the pain of 14 October 2023.

Arteta's vision for Arsenal at a crossroads after Edu exit

Arsenal have become unaccustomed to being underdogs.

Centre stage for England's most in-form midfielder

After becoming a parent, after earning a place in the tabletopping team, after a stellar player-of-the-match performance in a high-profile game and after providing one of the Champions League highlights of the week, Curtis Jones has another milestone occasion in his sights: a first senior international cap for England.

United win ends year-long wait for success in Europe

For a club who have been champions of Europe three times, a win in continental competition really shouldn’t be such a rarity.

Hoorah for interest cut but we need another one soon

After a turbulent few weeks, the Bank of England yesterday delivered a soothing balm to Britain's hard-pressed borrowers with a quarter-point cut in interest rates.

Sainsbury's to raise prices due to Budget 'pressure'

Sainsbury's has said shoppers will face higher prices as a result of the surprise tax changes announced in last week's Budget, which will hit the retailer with an extra £140m in costs.

Keyboard warriors: a night at the Superbowl of esports

The O2 arena sold out in a Glastonbury-esque frenzy, with resale tickets going for up to 1,000 online. All this for the chance to watch people play a desktop game on a jumbo screen? Annabel Nugent went to see what the big deal is

NOBODY'S PERFECT

Eddie Redmayne has won rave reviews as an assassin in a TV adaptation of The Day of the Jackal’ but Geoffrey Macnab says it isn’t a patch on the 1973 movie starring Edward Fox

How a new generation is giving granny tights a leg up

Kayleigh Werner explores how Gen Z superstars like Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift have reclaimed a hosiery staple most Brits associate with Nory sa and made it me

PREACHY CLEAN

Videos of CleanTok influencers making their homes shine have more than 150 billion views. Ellie Muir looks at whether their bizarre methods are setting unhealthily high standards

Frisco fury: why punish us for paying well in advance?

Q Months ago, we booked a cruise for early next year from Southampton to San Francisco, through an agent, including economy-class flights home.

Trump's royal fetish isn't a turn-on for liberal Sussexes

The prospect of life under the new president-elect could be enough to send the couple packing, suggests Tessa Dunlop

This year 'virtually certain' to be world's warmest ever

It is \"virtually certain\" that 2024 will be the world's warmest year on record, according to Europe's climate change service.

Ukrainian reporter's death in Russia jail still a mystery

It has been nearly 50 days since a 27-year-old Ukrainian journalist died while imprisoned at a Russian detention facility dubbed \"hell on Earth\" - but her family and friends are still waiting for the Kremlin to release her body so they can give her a proper funeral.

Could South Korea send its troops to fight for Ukraine?

The alleged deployment of North Korean soldiers to aid Russia's war effort in Ukraine has prompted South Korea to warn that it could send military monitors as well as weapons to Kyiv.

Scholz urged to trigger snap vote after coalition collapses

German chancellor under pressure after he sacks minister

'We still have this outdated view that domestic abuse is a man hitting his partner'

Sharon Gaffka speaks about the evils of coercive control and misogynistic abuse she received after leaving Love Island’

William: The hardest and most brutal year of my life

The Prince of Wales has described the past year which has seen his wife and father being treated for cancer as “brutal”.

Three charged over hotel balcony death of Payne

Three people were charged yesterday in connection to the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne, an Argentine prosecutor’s office said.

Housebuilding is held back by polluting factory farms

The rapid spread of factory farms and the pollution they cause are being blamed for housebuilding being stalled across the UK.

Met chief hits at 'dangerous rumours' over Kaba killing

Mark Rowley says 67’ gang linked to 11 shootings in a year

Expensive flutter: £100m bill to build HS2 bat 'shed'

HS2 Ltd is spending more than £100m building a “shed” for bats despite there being “no evidence” that high-speed trains interfere with the protected species, the chair of the government-owned company said.

Come in, No 47: Clacton's red-carpet invite for Trump

When Donald Trump sets off on his first tour of the world’s capitals, his itinerary is likely to be a roll call of famous cities: Berlin, Moscow, Kyiv, Rome, London perhaps.

Bank cuts interest rates as mortgages still set to rise

Interest rates have been cut for the second time this year, by a quarter of a percentage poi, but mortgage rates are still set to rise in a blow to homeowners.

Numbers game: how Trump beat Harris to White House

On Wednesday afternoon, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris gave a speech conceding victory to Donald Trump, who has won the 2024 presidential election.

Biden promises to deliver a peaceful transfer of power

Four years after Donald Trump refused to acknowledge losing the 2020 presidential election, US president Joe Biden said he would honour Mr Trump’s victory over vice-president Kamala Harris by facilitating a “peaceful and orderly transition” to the incoming Republican administration.

Will 'Britophile' Trump sign a trade deal with the UK?

Though few voice it so crudely, one of the great worries on the minds of British policymakers is whether the soon-to-bereincarnated President Trump will slap tariffs on UK exports to the United States.

No winners if US sparks global trade war, PM told

Nobody would win a tit-for-tat trade war with the US when Donald Trump returns to power, Britain’s top international trade expert has warned.

EU leaders urge Trump to stand up to ‘bully' Putin

Starmer is warned that Britain can’t rely on US for defence

HOT AND BOTHERED

We’ve got through Halloween and bonfire night and it’s still too warm for a heavy coat. Helen Coffey asks the experts why the weather’s been so mild and if it will ever get cold again