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A retired police dog has rescued a vulnerable missing person in East Sussex on his first walk since having major surgery.

The German shepherd, named Bear, found the man in dense undergrowth while being walked by his owner Julia Pope, a former police officer.

Pope said the dog, who was …

As a magistrate of more than 25 years, I am exasperated by talk of a black hole in the nation’s finances when a solution is at hand (

‘We had no alternative’: Reeves defends her budget to the CBI, 25 November

France’s centre-right prime minister, Michel Barnier,

has told parliament

The decision means France’s government will probably face a vote of confidence from opposition parties, …

The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo.

In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal said that five women, born in the Belgian Congo and now in their 70s, …

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• This article was amended on 2 December 2024 to correct an error in rendering the result of the Roscommon-Galway constituency.

At least 56 people have died and dozens of others were injured in a crowd crush at a football stadium in southern Guinea, authorities in the west African state said.

The Stade du 3 Avril in Nzérékoré, the country’s second largest city, was hosting the final of a football tournament …

A titan in world archaeology, Colin Renfrew, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, who has died aged 87, tackled questions key to understanding who we are – what makes us human, how migration changes culture, why civilisations appear, what art means – with new evidence as well as argument. His determination to …

Keir Starmer has appointed Chris Wormald, a career civil servant who currently heads the health department, to become the new cabinet secretary.

Wormald, who has spent eight years as permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care, will take over from Simon Case on 16 December as the …

The French government has said it will scrap another belt-tightening measure in the social security budget in a move widely seen as a further concession to the far right, which has threatened to lodge a no-confidence motion if its policy demands are not met.

In a statement on Monday the …

The two main centre-right parties in Ireland are expected to start talks on returning to government as the general election put the incumbents within touching distance of forming the 34th Dáil.

All but 12 Teachta Dála (TD) seats were filled when counting resumed at 9am on Monday but the results …