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A jellyfish species that has been wreaking havoc on Norway’s salmon industry has made its way to Scotland, causing significant damage and prompting calls for urgent action.

The string jellyfish has killed millions of salmon in Norwegian sea farms with officials urging an extermination of affected stocks.

Now the jellyfish …

As Nigel Farage toured US television studios before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, his face was almost as unavoidable in a quiet Cheshire market town more than 3,000 miles from the White House.

“He’s already got an office here, hasn’t he?” exclaimed Rob Hitchmough, 65, walking his cavalier King …

• Russia suffered 434,000 casualties in 2024, the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has claimed

  , saying it was more than the previous two years combined. Oleksandr Syrskyi

  said

  in an interview broadcast on Sunday evening that the figure included 150,000 deaths. Syrskyi did not …

A groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.

The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of ultrasound to “switch on” clusters of neurons. Its …

A record number of new sellers have come on to the UK housing market since Boxing Day, while the average price and the number of sales agreed also increased, pointing to a busier 2025, according to a report.

The average price of a property coming to market rose by 1.7%, …

Chrystia Freeland has warned of the “existential risk” to Canada posed by Donald Trump, casting herself as a “battle tested leader with the scars to prove it” during the formal launch of

her bid to be the country’s next prime minister.

Freeland, who has presented herself …

My friend Simon Benscher, who has died aged 69 of sepsis, was an important figure in the Liberal Judaism group (now part of Progressive Judaism) in the UK, and an exemplary civil society leader.

A former chair of the organisation, his unstinting passion was building connections with more than 40 …

I was surprised to read such a partisan argument on working from home by Polly Toynbee, whose articles I often appreciate (

Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better, 14 January

Sally Oppenheim-Barnes, who has died aged 96, was the former Conservative minister of state for consumer affairs and a politician with an intuitive understanding of what was of concern to the public in general and her constituents in particular. She had recognised the growing importance of the rights of the …

The family of Zina Barber, a 24-year-old Palestinian woman held in a jail for more than a year, were preparing for her to be released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal when a group of Israeli policemen came to their door late on Saturday.

“They raided our house, and …