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Xavier Greenwood
Sarah Mullally must lead a global church through stormy waters
Thu 26 Mar 2026
Absence of Ant & Dec doesn’t make Bafta nods any less predictable
Wed 25 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Trump’s maximal war gains have yielded mixed results
Wed 25 Mar 2026
Island eradicates ferrets with rats next on the agenda
Tue 24 Mar 2026
Kim Willsher
The far right again hits a ceiling in France
Tue 24 Mar 2026
BTS return to spread some economic cheer
Mon 23 Mar 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
Cost of conflict: why oil and gas are Iran’s most lethal weapons
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Saturday Night Live UK could send dozens of comedy careers into the stratosphere
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Afroman becomes unlikely constitutional champion
Fri 20 Mar 2026
Senegal cries ‘corruption’ over Afcon debacle
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Thomas Graham
The Cuban regime is under severe pressure to submit to Washington
Thu 19 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Kent is in the grip of an ‘unprecedented’ meningitis outbreak
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Zendaya admits even friends were fooled by AI wedding
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Steve Bloomfield
Donald Trump is trying and failing to draw US allies into the war in Iran
Tue 17 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Vladimir Putin is the main beneficiary of the Iran war
Mon 16 Mar 2026
Trump administration threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage
Mon 16 Mar 2026
Inaugural cricket auction turns out to be money spinner for top players
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Stephen Armstrong
For Warner Bros, the Oscars is one battle before many others
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Iran expected to withdraw from World Cup in US
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Xavier Greenwood
The Strait of Hormuz allows Iran to have the world over a barrel
Thu 12 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
The election of a former rapper in Nepal is a triumph for protesters
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Another Glasgow fire raises questions about building safety in the city
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Mojtaba Khamenei gives a dangerous new dimension to the Middle East crisis
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Australia grants asylum to members of the Iranian women’s football team
Tue 10 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Keir Starmer is a punching bag of the US president
Mon 9 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
Switzerland chooses to keep world’s highest TV licence fee
Sun 8 Mar 2026
Ceri Thomas
Christopher Harborne has cemented Reform’s status as a money-making machine
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Fred Harter
The US sinking a warship off Sri Lanka doesn’t solve a crisis in Hormuz
Thu 5 Mar 2026
Kim Willsher
Viktor Orbán has pinned his re-election hopes on maligning Ukraine
Wed 4 Mar 2026
Giles Whittell
Eight reasons Trump attacked Iran
Tue 3 Mar 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Donald Trump wants to see regime change in Iran. This may be wishful thinking
Mon 2 Mar 2026
Jessy Parker Humphreys
Russia and Belarus are making an Olympic comeback. So much for the games’ core values
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Thomas Graham
El Mencho’s death has put Mexico into a state of violent uncertainty
Thu 26 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Labour has taken radical steps to overhaul the Send system. But not everyone will feel included
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Explained: Peter Mandelson’s arrest
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Trump’s tariff dreams are not dead. But they’ve been put on life support
Mon 23 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
The arrest explained: why Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into police custody
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Colbert’s latest run-in with CBS is the thin end of the wedge
Thu 19 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Labour may be digging itself into a hole
Wed 18 Feb 2026
Ifang Bremer
South Korea says Kim Jong Un’s daughter has entered a ‘successor’ stage. The reality is murkier
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Trump’s repeal of a climate determination will encourage wanton destruction
Mon 16 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Starmer’s reset may push Labour leftwards
Fri 13 Feb 2026
Hannah Roberts
A far-right splinter in Italy offers lessons for the rest of Europe
Thu 12 Feb 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Iran’s highly enriched uranium is still AWOL
Wed 11 Feb 2026
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
Japan’s first female prime minister has won a historic victory
Tue 10 Feb 2026
Catherine Neilan
‘Dead in the water’: Labour MPs acknowledge that this may be the end for Starmer
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
Russia and US no longer have a mutual treaty to govern their nuclear arsenals
Thu 5 Feb 2026
Fred Harter
The assisted dying bill is floundering in the upper chamber
Wed 4 Feb 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Triple Grammy, no ICE: Bad Bunny leads the cultural backlash against Trump
Tue 3 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
New revelations from the Epstein files look like a wrecking ball for already damaged reputations
Mon 2 Feb 2026
Stephen Armstrong
Melania Trump’s biopic is no normal documentary
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Cost overruns and delays force Saudi Arabia to rethink Neom
Thu 29 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
With the defenestration of his top general, Xi consolidates control
Wed 28 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Labour’s plan for a radical overhaul of policing in England and Wales
Tue 27 Jan 2026
Katie McQue
Video and witness evidence contradict the White House’s account of the latest Minneapolis shooting
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ envisions a new global order, with himself at the top
Fri 23 Jan 2026
Giles Whittell
Trump U-turns in Davos
Thu 22 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
The future of Nato may rest on Greenland
Wed 21 Jan 2026
Ruth Michaelson
Syria is witnessing its biggest power shift since the fall of Assad
Tue 20 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Robert Jenrick’s defection is a coup for Reform – but there are risks too
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Nga Pham
Chinese-born billionaire of accused profiting from $70bn global scam industry
Fri 16 Jan 2026
Isabel Coles
Trump’s clamour for Greenland could collapse the world order
Thu 15 Jan 2026
Jeevan Vasagar
The criminal investigation into Jay Powell is about more than fancy curtains
Wed 14 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Faced with protests, Iran has opted for repression
Tue 13 Jan 2026
Giles Whittell
Starmer and Europe need each other more than ever
Mon 12 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
The proposed British and French force in Ukraine is a symptom of an ailing multilateral system
Fri 9 Jan 2026
Xavier Greenwood
America First, everywhere
Thu 8 Jan 2026
Oliver Marsden
A ban on aid agencies in Gaza will make a severe crisis even worse
Wed 7 Jan 2026
Fred Harter
Cuba mourns 32 officers and fears losing Venezuela lifeline
Tue 6 Jan 2026
Claire McQue
America First has never felt so ill-defined
Mon 5 Jan 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Sparklers in the frame over fatal Swiss nightclub fire
Sat 3 Jan 2026
George Simms
Fist full of dollars: Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul may take boxing to a new low
Fri 19 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
The world is deeply unequal. But it’s more complicated than people think
Thu 18 Dec 2025
Xavier Greenwood
Jimmy Lai needs the west to come to his rescue
Wed 17 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Jewish people, once again, are grieving on a sacred holiday
Tue 16 Dec 2025
Kim Willsher
Brigitte Macron’s blue language is part of a bigger anti-MeToo movement
Mon 15 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Councils have a £4bn funding crisis. There is no sign of things getting better
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Bernard Gray
Europe is beefing up its armies with military service schemes. Britain is unlikely to follow suit
Wed 10 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Yemen could be split in two for the first time in 35 years
Tue 9 Dec 2025
Jonathan Lewis
A private zoo run by Asia’s richest family has alarmed conservationists
Mon 8 Dec 2025
Rory Smith
All eyes will be on Infantino and Trump at the World Cup draw
Fri 5 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Scrapping some British juries is a major change. It may not work
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Jeevan Vasagar
Deadly floods in Asia show why humans need to adapt to climate change
Wed 3 Dec 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The chair of the UK’s fiscal watchdog has resigned. Rachel Reeves could be next
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Fred Harter
Trump has raised expectations that he will attack Venezuela
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Jasper Corbett
Australia’s social media experiment will be watched around the world
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Liz Cookman
A peace deal could be imminent. It may not be a good one
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Stephen Armstrong
Three companies have submitted rival bids. Whoever wins will change Hollywood
Tue 25 Nov 2025
Xavier Greenwood
UN climate summit was another missed opportunity
Mon 24 Nov 2025
Jeevan Vasagar
Mystery rubbish: who dumped the 150-metre pile in Oxfordshire?
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Not so Teflon Trump: the Epstein files vote shows he can’t control his base
Thu 20 Nov 2025
Liz Cookman
Ukraine is reeling from the most damaging corruption scandal of Zelensky’s presidency
Wed 19 Nov 2025
Xavier Greenwood
Shabana Mahmood has thrown a hail mary with her new asylum model
Tue 18 Nov 2025
Fred Harter
Mysterious drone sightings are causing alarm across Europe
Mon 17 Nov 2025
Jeevan Vasagar
The UN has predicted a substantial drop in greenhouse gas emissions. It’s not enough
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Fred Harter
Prisoners keep being freed by accident. It is a symptom of a bigger issue
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The world’s most trusted broadcaster faces threats on multiple fronts
Wed 12 Nov 2025
Kim Willsher
Paris has become home to Shein’s first physical shop in Europe. Not everyone is happy
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Ruth Michaelson
Ahmed al-Sharaa once fought against US forces in Iraq. Today the Syrian president visits the White House
Mon 10 Nov 2025
