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Trump relents and accepts Mandelson as ambassador

Labour peer’s OK tempered by resistance to Chagos deal

Print media will mourn for WHSmith... but who else?

The theme for the British high street? It has to be Another One Bites the Dust”. WHSmith is the latest famous name for whom that thumping baseline is tolling.

Bodies found in streets as Congo rebels target key city

Battles between Rwanda-backed rebels and pro-government forces are intensifying in the Congo city of Goma, as heavy gunfire and explosions were heard, and dead bodies were found in the streets.

The brainwashing parents raising mini-me children

As Elon Musk dubs his four-year-old a Trump supporter’, Charlotte Cripps asks why some mums and dads insist on pushing their own ideologies onto their young children

Serbian PM resigns amid anti-corruption protests

Serbian prime minister Milos Vucevic has resigned, becoming the most significant political casualty of the anti-corruption protests sweeping the country.

How DeepSeek managed to devastate US tech industry

The Chinese startup inflicted more than 1 trillion in losses, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, with Nvidia suffering the most

Leicester City helicopter crash ruled an accident

Late chair’s son hits out at makers of death trap’ aircraft

‘This war has taken all the most precious things I had’

Scrambling over craters and towering sandbanks, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew

Doomsday Clock a second closer to global annihilation

The world is closer than ever before to total apocalypse, the scientists behind the Doomsday Clock have warned.

Police rearrest driver over Wimbledon school crash

The driver of the four-by-four that crashed into a primary school in southwest London and killed schoolgirls Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau has been arrested again after the Met Police reopened their investigation.

MPs aghast’ at NHS bosses as overspending hits 1.4bn

Senior NHS leaders have been accused of remarkable” complacency and being out of ideas” to fix the UK’s broken health service as overspending doubled to 1.4bn last year.

How much should we really be spending on defence?

Pressure, domestic and external, is growing on the government to increase defence spending markedly.

Britain’s population set to rise by 5 million in decade

ONS figures pile pressure on government to curb migration E ree

Le brush-off: Britons must pay more to visit Louvre

British tourists will have to pay more to enter the Louvre in Paris under new plans announced by French president Emmanuel Macron during a visit to the museum yesterday.

Cooper rejects calls fora new approach to extremism

Yvette Cooper has rejected calls for misogynists, conspiracy theorists, the far left and potentially violent environmental activists to be treated as extremists.

Don’t rush through assisted dying service, urges Whitty

Nursing leaders have admitted patients could choose a proposed new assisted dying service because of inadequate palliative care.

‘Crunch time’ for Reeves as she reboots growth agenda

Rachel Reeves has been warned by business leaders that it is crunch time” for her promises to deliver growth as she attempts to win back her credibility on the economy.

Hero's return: can Dupont win Six Nations for France?

Harry Latham-Coyle and Luke Baker consider this and other key questions in making their tournament predictions

Sinner’s biggest opponent now lies outside the court

Jannik Sinner was proud.

Why Trump’s quick fix for Ukraine war won’t work

Concessions of territory and new power alliances among the issues keeping Putin and Zelensky from entering peace talks

Reeves to loosen rules on how pension funds invest

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are turning to Britain’s pension funds in a desperate bid to unlock cash for investment and get the economy growing.

Our high-street stalwarts don’t deserve to survive

With the news that another veteran retailer may be shutting its doors, Helen Coffey wonders whether any of the UK’s heritage chains can cling on amid the digital shopping storm

Heseltine calls Brexit pack of lies’ and urges new vote

Michael Heseltine said Brexiteers sold Britain a pack of lies” as he called for the UK to rejoin the European Union.

Home at last... the 200,000 returning to northern Gaza for first time in 15 months

Masses of Palestinians walk north along the coastal route as those travelling in cars face days-long waits at checkpoints

Premier League’s costliest flop exits United valueless

Antony’s Manchester United career dwindled to the point the club let the 85m signing go out on loan without a fee

Lukashenko wins new term in sham’ Belarus election

Belarus’ authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko has extended his more than three decades in power after an orchestrated election that the opposition and the European Union rejected as a sham.

Police end river search for missing Aberdeen sisters

Detectives looking for two missing sisters have ended the search of a river and harbour in Aberdeen three weeks after the pair mysteriously vanished.

Tech stocks are knocked by rise in Chinese AI chatbot

Tech stocks tumbled in the US as markets opened yesterday after a new Chinese competitor emerged in the artificial intelligence field, potentially upending the sector.

‘Tl play songs and wait for something to not feel right’

Will Oldham talks to Laura Barton about writing for his alter ego Bonnie Prince’ Billy, working with his heroes, and how a song on new album The Purple Bird’ turned his legs to jelly

Bedtime stories and a kiss goodnight from father, as he oversaw the Holocaust

Author Thomas Harding visits the Auschwitz commandant’s home and recalls exactly what the daughter of Rudolf Hoess told him about life next door to a horrific killing machine