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The former Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins is expected to be appointed as the UK Foreign Office’s most senior civil servant, the Guardian understands.

Robbins, who was on the shortlist last year to take over as cabinet secretary but failed to get the civil service’s top job, was believed to be …

The family of a man killed by police on Christmas Eve are seeking answers about his death, saying he was “unjustifiably taken away from all of us”.

Marcus Meade, 39, was shot by police in his Redditch home after a five-hour standoff with officers while in possession of a knife.

The sister of the OpenAI chief executive,

Sam Altman

The lawsuit filed on 6 January in a US district court in the Eastern District of Missouri alleges that …

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist detained in solitary confinement in Iran, has been freed and is heading back to Italy.

A plane carrying the 29-year-old took off from Tehran after “intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence channels”, a statement from the office of the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said. The …

England’s Immanuel Feyi-Waboso is still in two minds about whether to undergo a shoulder operation that could impact his chances of representing the British & Irish Lions later this year.

The Exeter wing is scheduled to have surgery next week which would rule him out of the entire

Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company has received almost £200m in grants from the UK government since 2016, according to analysis.

Tesla, which is run by the tech billionaire who has become increasingly vocal about the UK government, has received £191m from Westminster through grants, according to Tussell, which analyses public …

The EU executive has been “too slow” in enforcing a major law intended to ensure good behaviour of social media companies, MEPs have said, amid growing concern about the aggressive forays of Elon Musk into European politics.

Pressure on the European Commission to act is growing as Musk, the X …

The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action.

JP Morgan is the latest to withdraw from the UN-sponsored netzero banking alliance (NZBA), following …

A body has been found in the search for Aziz Ziriat and Sam Harris, two British hikers who have been missing in the Dolomites for nearly a week, Italy’s alpine rescue service said.

The body, which has not yet been identified, was found buried beneath snow at about 2,600 metres …

The veteran anti-apartheid campaigner

Peter Hain

In a letter seen by the Guardian, Lord Hain urges the Cricket South Africa’s chief executive, Pholetsi Moseki, …