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South African officials weigh up rescue of trapped miners

South African authorities are assessing whether it is safe to rescue potentially thousands of illegal miners who may be trapped underground after police stopped food, water and medicine being delivered to them about two weeks ago to try to force them to the surface.

'Peaky Blinders' thieves still at large after 2002 Dutch gem heist

Police have said they remain confident of arresting four men who stole jewels worth tens of millions of euros in broad daylight at the Maastricht art fair, despite a search of a Belgian river failing to yield any clues.

Thousands of New Zealanders march against Maori treaty bill

A protest march estimated to be one ofthe largest in New Zealand history arrived at its parliament yesterday, flooding the grounds with song in a display of unity against a contro Versial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty between Maori and the crown.

Gaetz nomination 'A less than 50-50 chance'

Prosecutors who secured Donald Trump's conviction over a hush-money payment have opposed his bid to have the case dismissed.

Conor McGregor accuser will be 'a marked woman', Dublin jury told

A woman who alleges the Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor brutally raped her after a Christmas party six years ago in Dublin will \"always be a marked woman,\" simply because she had the courage to stand up to the fighter, a jury has been told.

Pressure grows on Scholz to stand aside for Pistorius

Germany's chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is under mounting pressure to step aside as his party's candidate for the job in February's election in favour of his defence minister, Boris Pistorius.

Looting of 98 aid trucks in Gaza sends price of flour to £80 a sack

Food prices have soared in Gaza after the looting of nearly 100 aid trucks amid an already severe food crisis caused by more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas.

Hong Kong's jailing of pro-democracy activists provokes international fury

Governments and human rights groups have expressed concern and outrage at the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong following the city's largest national security trial.

Meandering look at era of protest and change is low on punky irreverence

Picture the 1980s in Britain, and what comes to mind? Margaret Thatcher? Big hair? Striking miners? Shoulder pads? The poll tax? Greenham Common? New Romantics? Yuppies? Dole queues? Whatever you know, or indeed remember, of the country in its Sinclair C5 era, Tate’s exhibition The 80s: Photographing Britain will remind you that there is an abundance of other perspectives.

The climate in charts No sign of emissions slowing in bleak year

\"The era of global boiling has arrived,\" is what the UN chief, António Guterres, presciently declared last year.

Woman reveals toll of 'c0ercive' relationship with police spy

A woman has revealed how an undercover police officer formed a long-term intimate relationship with her without disclosing his real identity, Vanished from her life and then reappeared seven years later.

Compassionate assisted dying bill backed by health minister

The health minister Stephen Kinnock has said he will Vote in favour of the assisted dying bill next week, arguing that it is the \"compassionate\" thing to do and will not automatically place NHS palliative care services under extreme pressure.

England's national parks face financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs

England's national parks face a 12% real-terms cut to their budget which would lead to mass redundancies of wardens and the closure of visitor centres and other facilities, park leaders have warned.

Romanian court finds flaws in case against Tate

A court in Romania has ruled that one of the public prosecutors' cases brought against the self-styled misogynist influencer Andrew Tate contains irregularities and ordered them to amend or withdraw it within five days.

Booker-winner Flanagan takes Baillie Gifford nonfiction prize

Richard Flanagan's Question 7 has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction, making the Australian writer the first person to have won both this award and the Booker prize for fiction.

Knife crime 'blighting lives of too many children', says report

Serious youth violence in England is widespread and not restricted to particular ethnic or demographic groups, according to investigators who were told that children as young as 11 were carrying knives for protection.

Parents' dismay at baby girl's irreversible male birth certificate

A newborn baby girl will have to go through life with the wrong sex on her birth certificate after a registrar's error, which her parents have been told they can't change.

You're having a larf? Fake accents fool Londoners, study shows

It seems Londoners, and southerners more broadly, are among the worst at spotting people mimicking their accents, with northerners, Scots and the Irish performing better.

Man, 92, arrested over 1967 rape and murder

A 92-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering a woman in Bristol almost 60 years ago.

Nuclear power Attacks on grid 'raise the risk of catastrophe'

Ukraine's power network is at \"heightened risk of catastrophic failure\" after Russia's missile and drone attack on Sunday, Greenpeace has warned, raising fears about the safety of the country's three operational nuclear power stations.

Baltic Sea Germany 'assumes cable damage was sabotage'

Germany has said it has to assume that damage to two undersea fibreoptic cables in the Baltic Sea since Sunday was an act of sabotage.

Film review Erivo casts powerful spell in sugar-rush fantasy

As Kermit the Frog and the Hulk discovered: it's not easy being green. Now another verdant character is gleefully brought to the screen by lyricist-producer Stephen Schwartz, screenwriters Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, and director Jon M Chu in an adaptation of Schwartz's Broadway musical, the first of two parts.

Zelenskyy Ukraine 'could face loo,ooo North Korean troops'

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country could face 100,000 North Korean troops, as he urged European nations to intensify military aid in a speech marking 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Cock-a-doodle-don't: man is fined over his noisy cockerel

A man has been fined after his pet cockerel subjected neighbours in a quiet street to \"torture\" by repeatedly crowing as early as 3am.

First taste of winter snow brings closures and travel disruption

Large parts of the UK were blanketed with snow yesterday as the country got its \"first taste of winter\", which brought school closures, train delays, difficult driving conditions and an appeal to check in on vulnerable people.

Being fit could lower risk of dementia and delay its onset, study suggests

Being physically fit could lower the risk of dementia and delay the development of the disease by almost 18 months, research has found. Exercise could even help people who are genetically more predisposed to dementia to cut their risk by up to 35%.

Starmer denies waging class war as farmers talk of being 'betrayed'

Keir Starmer has denied that he is mounting a class war by targeting wealthy landowners and private schools, after the head of the National Farmers' Union accused the government of an extraordinary \"betrayal\" over inheritance tax changes.

Clarkson leaves to applause, While the man from the ministry has a day to forget

It was a very civilised protest. The sort you might expect from roughly 10,000 asset-rich, cash-poor millionaire farmers from all over the country.

'It's a way of life' Tweed ancl tractors descend on streets of Westminster

Honking tractors carrying young farmers and a sea of people clad in tweed and wellies signalled the countryside had come to the capital yesterday to demand the scrapping of Labour's budget changes to inheritance tax on agricultural businesses.

Starmer declines to condemn jailing of Hong Kong activists

Keir Starmer has twice declined to directly condemn the jailing of dozens of Hong Kong's pro-democracy figures after meeting China's president at the G20 summit in Brazil.