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An Ashes walloping such as the one England’s women have just endured in Australia inevitably triggers a review but for Mark Robinson, head coach when Heather Knight’s team won the World Cup in 2017, the latest must go beyond sacking individuals.

“It has been a tough watch,” Robinson says. “But …

OnePlus is trying to prove you don’t need a Samsung or a Google to have a top-tier premium Android in 2025, and mostly succeeds.

The OnePlus 13 is the latest in the Oppo sub-brand’s series of keenly priced phones. Despite

becoming more expensive every year

Good morning. When Lucy Letby was convicted in 2023 of the murder of seven babies, she entered a bleak pantheon of the worst serial killers in British history. Since then, as concerns have been raised about the safety of her conviction, they have often been dismissed as the product of …

François Bayrou, the French prime minister, is almost certain to survive a vote of no confidence on Wednesday after the move that threatened to topple the government – for the second time in two months – lost the support of socialists and the far right.

The decision by the Socialist …

The US Postal Service has suspended incoming parcels from China and Hong Kong until further notice, amid a growing trade conflict between the US and China.

It comes as Donald Trump said he is not in a hurry to speak to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, despite expectations that they …

• The Ukrainian president,

  Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said he would agree to direct talks with Vladimir Putin

  to end the war. “If that is the only set-up in which we can bring peace to the citizens of Ukraine and not lose people, definitely we will go for this set-up,” …

The Home Office’s plans to house asylum seekers reveal a “dysfunctional culture of repeated mistakes and weak internal challenge” that wasted nearly £100m, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded.

A Public Accounts Committee report said the department had a “troubling culture that repeatedly wastes public money” after examining the acquisition of …

There is a peace now, fragile and uncertain, but there are no answers.

Shamikh Badra carries on his phone a photo of his brother, Ehab, sitting, smiling with his children. For now, it’s all he has – and it might be all he ever has of the sibling he revered.

Shares of Google’s parent company Alphabet fell more than 6% after the company reported a slight miss in expected revenue on Tuesday. The company reported $96.5bn, compared with analyst expectations of $96.67 bn. The company surpassed investors’ expectations of $2.13 in earnings per share, however, with $2.15 in EPS.

“Q4 …

International lawyers have “laid the foundations” for a special tribunal to try Russia for the crime of aggression, the EU has said, hailing a significant step towards holding Vladimir Putin and his top officials accountable for the invasion of Ukraine.

In a statement late on Tuesday, the EU executive declared …