The US also has limited control over what Iran does next

Manchester United is used to success. But it is languishing in the league and saddled with debt

Billionaire Jim Irsay assembled an astonishing archive of artefacts – from Beatles memorabilia to Kerouac’s On the Road scroll. Now, after it went under the hammer in New York, its future is uncertain

One of Britain’s biggest trade unions has built a hotel in Birmingham at vast cost. Following the threads which explain why it became so wildly expensive leads inevitably to a surprising place: to Liverpool. And to questions which could hurt the Labour party.

In Mojtaba Khamenei’s absence, the regime’s top brass are out in force

After the White House says it has obliterated 90 sites on Iran’s oil hub, Kharg island, the regime retaliates by issuing threats against a neighbour’s non-US assets for the first time

A merger with Paramount could make next year’s ceremony look very different

Releasing emergency oil buys more time – but not nearly enough

Hotels have been struck and three people have died. But social media is flooded with posts attesting to the city’s safety

The death of Ayatollah Khamenei alone will not dislodge the Islamic Republic

As part of our occasional series, we examine a Premier League club in detail

Mykhailo Polyakov was thrown into prison for trying to reach the hunter-gatherer Sentinelese islanders. Now he explains how he hopes to contact other remote tribes

The latest escalation of the Epstein files fallout, the former spin doctor and US ambassador will be questioned on suspicion of misconduct in public office

The arrest of the former prince marks the most significant royal scandal since the abdication of King Edward VIII

The network appears to have fallen into a pattern of anticipatory obedience

To be with the woman he loved, the comedian agreed to become an Orthodox Jew, not realising the lonely journey he would face

Ted Hughes and a dialect coach helped transform Aussie Jacob Elordi into a passable Yorkshireman alongside Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights

‘If only there was a way to feast in the Championship without risking famine the next season’

Inclusion in the documents does not indicate wrongdoing. But the public may not give the benefit of the doubt to those who corresponded with the sex offender

Transatlantic travel between the two cities puts snow, Monet and haberdashery into perspective

Founded in the late 1980s to make fun of the news of the time, the Onion has always been taken seriously. Now as the title relaunches in print it is thriving and finding ways to laugh through bleak times

The brutal crackdown on protests across the country demonstrates that the regime is frailer than ever, but will not go lightly