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Still a teenager but there are few weaknesses in his game

Whether he beat or lost to Michael van Gerwen on the Alexandra Palace stage on Friday night, Luke Littler was al going to leave his second World Darts Championship as a winner.

Littler makes history after winning world title aged 17

Darts has a new world champion, and he's a 17-year-old boy from Warrington.

The hot UK industry that could be facing a wipeout

Don't tell Liam and Noel, but the biggest entertainment event of 2025 won't be their reunion, it'll be the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI.

Taxes to rise again despite growth, warn economists

A group of economists have warned that the Treasury is likely to raise taxes even further this year, despite an expectation that the country will return to growth in 2025.

Curriculum changes by new Syrian rulers spark backlash

Syria's regime has announced sweeping changes to the national school curriculum, triggering concerns about \"Islamisation\".

Cybertruck bomber's wife ‘left him days before attack'

Ex-girlfriend says his behaviour changed after a brain injury

Trump to be sentenced this month in hush-money case

The judge overseeing the criminal case against Donald Trump in his home state of New York has ordered the president-elect to appear before him on 10 January to face a sentence after jury convicted him on 34 felony counts last year.

‘They got rid of anything to show they had my father’

Bel Trew joins those searching Damascus and sites across Syria for journalist Austin Tice and other US citizens who went missing under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad

Salt and antifreeze can kill pets, RSPCA warns owners

The RSPCA has warned householders that antifreeze and salt can be poisonous to pets as snow and freezing temperatures are forecast to sweep the UK this weekend.

Art attack: Doodle house project draws ire of locals

An artist is facing a backlash from local residents after his plans to build a house on Dungeness beach with metal doodles covering the exterior was revealed.

Creator of Thomas the Tank Engine T'V series dies at 81

Britt Allcroft, the creator of the beloved children’s series Thomas the Tank Engine Friends, has died aged 81.

Young confirms he will play at Glastonbury after all

Star backtracks on decision to withdraw over BBC control’

Father on IPP sentence is refused transfer to hospital

Thomas White has developed paranoid schizophrenia and psychosis after serving almost 13 years for stealing a phone

Former Conservative MP Longhi defects to Reform

Nigel Farage's Reform UK has secured the defection of a third former Conservative MP in as many months after Marco Longhi announced he was joining the party.

NHS fast track scheme will cut waiting lists, PM to say

Patients with symptoms of bowel and lung conditions, cancer and heart failure will be fast-tracked for scans and tests, under government plans to cut NHS waiting times.

Trump attacks Starmer over North Sea oil drilling plans

Donald Trump has attacked Sir Keir Starmer's clean energy plan, urging him to open up the North Sea and \"get rid of windmills\".

And now, the end is near...sadly, not for care reform

Wes Streeting, known in Labour Land for his karaoke, channelled his inner Frank Sinatra to declare \"the best is yet to come\" for adult social care.

Number in hospital with flu quadruples over past month

NHS struggling with 'quad-demic' as temperatures plunge

'Unknown' Opetaia could offer Usyk a fresh challenge

Oleksandr Usyk's special brand of dominance is the type that can leave a vacuum.

Chaos meets continuity as Amorim makes it to Anfield

United's head coach Ruben Amorim will be wondering what might have been as his failing side take on a flying Liverpool

There's a storm coming as Littler takes on Van Gerwen

Luke Littler, 17, could break all the records set by opponent Michael van Gerwen in tonight's World Championship final

NICKEL AND CRIMES

'Nickel Boys' uses a POV camera to achieve a feat of fullbodied immersion, while romantic weepie 'We Live in Time' makes cancer remarkably cosy, writes Clarisse Loughrey

'Cult chose me, I just got on the river and stayed on it'

Former 'Xena' star Lucy Lawless tells Adam White about her blazing documentary debut, her turn away from acting, and her sadness over the distortion of what it means to be 'woke'

LIVING COLOUR

Helen Wilson-Beevers tests a selection of makeup palettes

Our five-day keto diet plan really begins to take shape

Day two on keto with Lisa Butterworth's perfectly planned regime. Hannah Twiggs talks you through the treats in store

Meghan's influencer era will mean she has the last laugh

As the former royal launches a brand new Instagram account, Katie Rosseinsky looks at why it could be the way forward for the duchess, whose social media credentials are pretty sound

Toxic waste from world's deadliest industrial disaster is removed after 40 years

A convoy of trucks has taken away 337 metric tonnes of hazardous waste from the site of the Bhopal gas tragedy, 40 years after what is regarded as the world's worst industrial disaster.

Investigators move to arrest South Korea president Yoon

South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has vowed to \"fight to the end\" as authorities dispatched investigators to execute a warrant to detain him over his shock attempt to impose martial law.

Montenegro town's second mass shooting sees 12 killed

A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before killing himself yesterday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation's worst mass killings.

Cybertruck suspect 'shot himself' before detonation

The highly decorated Army soldier inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before detonation, authorities said last night.