The Guardian Articles

A limited – at best – understanding of the continent of Europe and its component countries has not prevented the world’s richest man from intervening in the domestic politics of several of them, as well as attacking the EU itself.

Here we take a brief look at some of the …

The gulf between the top French sides and the Premiership’s lower reaches grows wider by the week. First Toulouse and now Bordeaux have travelled to Exeter this season and been so markedly superior that a boxing referee would have stopped the fight long before the end. This was not even …

Retail assistants have accused a gig economy firm of “holding them to ransom” by making them pay a fee if they want to receive their wages within a month.

A new payment system brought in by YoungOnes, which supplies “freelance” retail assistants to many well-known high street stores, charges gig …

The search for two sisters, who went missing in Aberdeen on Tuesday morning, has been extended to the coast, police said.

Eliza and Henrietta Huszti – who are part of a set of triplets – were last seen in the city on Market Street at Victoria Bridge at about 2.12am …

Labour’s first budget was supposed to end 14 years of austerity without inducing the kind of shock associated with Liz Truss. Yet within months, Rachel Reeves’s mix of spending increases, higher taxes on business and

extra borrowing for investment

Not so much in …

Researchers fear that thousands of government documents about the

late queen

The files are scheduled to be made public in 2026 and 2027, five years after the royal couple’s deaths, and internal discussions …

Castling. The Berlin defence. En ­passant. If you haven’t heard these terms, chances are you soon will. School chess clubs are booming, new apps are capturing a gen-Z ­audience and

stone chess boards have been installed in parks across the country

This year, a chess competition show …

Born in Manchester in 1966, actor Siobhan Finneran’s first major role was as Rita in the 1987 film

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

The three floors and subterranean prison of the Homs security directorate have loomed over 65-year-old Taha Tadmori’s daily life since he was a teenager. His family often shut their window blinds and doors in an attempt to block out the constant sound of screams and cries of pain from the …

The White House is working to reach a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas before president-elect Trump’s inauguration, William Burns, the director of the CIA, has suggested.

“Negotiations going on right now are quite serious and do offer the possibility, at least, of getting this done in the next couple …