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'We still have this outdated view that domestic abuse is a man hitting his partner'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

I'm far happier now than I was being a 'smug married'

Stacey Duguid has embraced being a divorced single mum after leaving an unhappy relationship. She ponders her past obsession with getting hitched and questions a new survey that suggests marriage staves off low mood and depression

'People say we don't care what others think - we do'

South Africa are trying to change perceptions, charismatic director of rugby Rassie Erasmus tells Harry Latham-Coyle

OXFORD SCHOLAR

Des Buckingham is loving life in charge of his hometown club after a nomadic career. He speaks to Lawrence Ostlere

Unlucky Gunners can take hope from defeat to Inter

Arsenal have traded St James’ Park for San Siro but the scoreline has stayed the same.

Markets are re-energised but not everyone's a winner

The financial world has been electrified by Trump’s election victory. Once the new president is installed, though, writes Chris Blackhurst, the implications will become much clearer

McGregor accuser feared she would die, court hears

A woman broke down in tears yesterday as she accused MMA star Conor McGregor of raping her and told a court she was fearful she would never see her daughter again while he was choking her.

'It was so fast. The next day she was found dead inside'

The mangled car in which Jorge Tarazona’s three-year-old niece and sister-in-law died in last week’s flooding in Spain now hangs halfway off the ragged edge of a highway.

Kim expects leverage for lending Putin his troops

North Korea’s leader wants cash, missile technology and food for letting thousands of his soldiers fight against Ukraine

GP jailed over 'audacious' fake Covid jab murder plot

A GP who disguised himself as a nurse and poisoned his mother’s partner with a fake Covid jab in an audacious” plot to murder him has been jailed for 31 years.

'A spiteful attack': farmers warn of village life erosion

Farmers say Labour’s shock changes to inheritance tax rules will lead to the destruction” of village life and accused politicians of failing to understand the countryside, as dozens joined a first protest against the measure.

Twenty jailed for child rape and abuse in West Yorkshire

Twenty men have been jailed for raping and abusing four girls in Calderdale, West Yorkshire Police have said.

Terror attack hero warns of more IPP prisoner suicides

Marc Conway backs our campaign for all sentences to be reviewed after he is finally freed from draconian jail term