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'Everything is still ahead' Ukraine commander says main offensive to come

From the elevated deck of his command post, Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, the head of Ukraine's ground forces, peers down with pinched eyes and furrowed brow at the expanse of scrubland and forest laid out in front of him as an assault unit of soldiers seeks to cross a heavily mined field.

Bucket or baseball - Who'll win the battle of the hats?

When England's Test captain, Ben Stokes, wore a bucket hat with the three lions crest on the front on the first day of the Ashes last week, it brought almost as much attention as the Test match itself.

Recommended doze: napping on the job can benefit the brain, study finds

Winston Churchill was a past master and Margaret Thatcher allegedly did it in the back of her car - and now research has renewed calls for employees to be offered the chance to doze on the job too.

'Not sci-fi any more' - AI will let us talk to spacecraft, says Nasa engineer

In the film 2001: A Space Odyssey the sentient supercomputer, HAL 9000, speaks conversationally to the mission pilots on a Jupiter-bound spaceship, executing their orders and alerting them to onboard faults - and eventually going rogue.

A high-speed decline Eurostar services derailed thanks to Brexit and Covid

Adieu Mickey Mouse. Tot ziens Amsterdam. Don't even mention Frankfurt - or the night train to Swansea. The early ambitions of Eurostar have long crumbled like croissants - and now even the remaining places where crossChannel trains managed to make it are slipping off its map.

Elton John - Sun to go down on one of pop's great performers

In the 1970s, he was responsible for an astonishing 2% of all record sales around the globe and he scored his eighth UK No 1 album as recently as 2021 with The Lockdown Sessions.

Generous tipper? Beyoncé gives £8,000 to Nigerian restaurant in Tottenham

Squishy rectangles of bean moi moi, warmly spiced egusi stew, and rice pancakes topped with savoury-sweet pumpkin and peanut: these are Nigerian dishes that deserve a greater showing in the UK's culinary repertoire - and Beyoncé is here to help.

'Ship of dreams' The Titanic has been an enduring obsession since the 1912 disaster

The tragic loss of Titan - the submersible carrying five people to the bottom of the Atlantic to view the wreck of the Titanic - has once again reignited public fascination with the so-called \"ship of dreams\".

The search, the implosion and the safety certification

The unanswered questions

Titanic director Cameron says sub's design was 'critically flawed'

The veteran deep-sea explorer and film-maker James Cameron has said the design of the Titan submersible, which is thought to have imploded on a dive to the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday with the loss of the five lives onboard, was \"critically flawed\", and it was \"only a matter of time\" before the tragedy occurred.

Paris summit falls short on debt and climate lifeline for poorest

Poorer countries struggling with a growing debt crisis were thrown a lifeline at a global finance summit in Paris but the plans still fell short of the debt forgiveness programme that some had hoped for.

'It is very, very difficult' Sunak in a bind while Bank controls levers

If the bosses of some of Britain's biggest banks were nervous as they entered Downing Street for a crunch meeting on the mortgage crisis yesterday morning, they were quickly reassured.

'Tsunami' of dangerous vapes flooding into UK

Illegal vapes can contain high levels of lead, nickel and chromium | More than 2.5m illicit products seized, with calls for disposables ban | Revealed: millions of illicit vapes seized by councils across UK

Campaigners lose legal challenge to stop building of Sizewell C nuclear plant

A legal challenge against the government's decision to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant has been rejected.

Meat grown in lab from animal cells to go on sale in US for first time

New York Lab-grown meat will be able to be sold to US consumers for the first time, with the federal government granting permission for two separate businesses to offer their chicken products for sale.

New Zealand PM disagrees with Biden reference to Xi as 'dictator'

New Zealand's prime minister, Chris Hipkins, has disagreed with the US President Joe Biden's remark that Xi Jinping is a \"dictator\", as he prepares to meet the Chinese leader on an official trade trip to China.

'A good discussion' Modi meets Biden for talks at the White House

Joe Biden welcomed Narendra Modi, to the White House yesterday for the second day of the Indian prime minister's first official state visit.

Anger in Japan after report reveals forced sterilisations

Campaigners in Japan have reacted angrily to a government report revealing that children as young as nine were among thousands of people who were forcibly sterilised under a eugenics law that was not repealed until the 1990s.

Bridge in Crimea hit by UK Storm Shadow missiles, Russia claims

Russian-backed officials in southern Ukraine have accused Kyiv of using British-supplied long-range missiles to strike a bridge connecting Kherson province with the Crimean peninsula.

Anger over draft EU law allowing countries to spy on journalists

Draft legislation published by EU leaders that would allow national security agencies to spy on journalists has been condemned by media and civil society groups as dangerous, and described by a leading MEP as \"incomprehensible\".

Nearly 170 people rescued from boats off Spain's Canary Islands

Emergency services say 168 people have been rescued near Spain's Canary Islands, one day after refugee charities said they feared more than 30 people had died after their inflatable dinghy sank on the same route.

Number of diabetes cases across the world 'will double by 2050'

The number of adults living with diabetes worldwide will more than double by 2050, according to research that blames rapidly rising obesity levels and widening health inequalities.

Whitty: UK thinking not radical enough to stop Covid at the start

England's chief medical officer, Sir Chris Whitty, said the UK \"did not give sufficient thought\" to stopping Covid in its tracks as he listed multiple problems with preparedness in his first cross-examination at the pandemic public inquiry.

Tottenham in pole position to sign playmaker Maddison

Tottenham have emerged as the front-runners in the race to sign Leicester City's James Maddison.

Adventurer halfway to Rockall record - but gales are forecast

An adventurer living alone on the barren islet of Rockall, 230 miles west of the Outer Hebrides, is halfway to completing a record-breaking stay, while enduring \"atrocious\" Atlantic weather.

British Museum apology to writer after plagiarism 'mistake'

The British Museum has offered to pay a writer for her work after she alleged her poetry translations had been plagiarised in a landmark exhibition.

LGBT awards cut ties with Shell and BP after nominees pull out

The British LGBT awards have dropped sponsorship deals with Shell and BP after nominees and judges began pulling out of the competition.

Battle of the egos: Zuckerberg says yes to cage fight with billionaire tech rival Musk

In the red corner, the world's richest person, and in the blue corner, the world's richest millennial: Tesla's boss, Elon Musk, and the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have agreed to a cage match, after Musk jokingly suggested the bout in response to efforts from Meta to launch a Twitter competitor.

London's City Hall faces legal threat over EU flag

Ministers have been accused of criminalising the flying of the European Union flag on government buildings in England after London's City Hall was told it could be prosecuted for displaying it on the anniversary of the Brexit referendum.

At least 14,000 were denied vote under ID law, says watchdog

As many as 14,000 people were turned away from polling stations at last month's local elections because they lacked the right ID, with the overall number denied a vote likely to be considerably higher, the official elections watchdog has said.