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The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a

“godfather” of artificial intelligence

Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded …

There will be those at a sold-out Twickenham on Saturday who will be sick of the sight of Handré Pollard. The 30-year-old fly-half returns to the stadium with Leicester six weeks after his accuracy from the tee kept the Springboks

out of reach against England

The disappearance of four boys in Ecuador after they came into contact with the armed forces is posing a severe challenge to President Daniel Noboa’s

“war on drugs”

The four – all black, aged between 11 and 15, and residents of Las Malvinas, a poor area in …

Welcome to the last Guide of 2024! I hope you all are enjoying your festive break, and have a better handle on which day it is than I do. As is tradition, after our own roundup of the year’s best culture, we are turning things over to you this week. …

Keir Starmer has paid tribute to his brother, Nick, who had cancer and died on Boxing Day aged 60.

The prime minister said his younger brother was “a wonderful man” who “met all the challenges life threw at him with courage and good humour”.

He said in a statement: “I …

The Welsh capital is often used as a setting for film and television drama, as are the country’s mountains, forests and coastlines, but a city sometimes seen as Cardiff’s poorer relative is starring in a new Welsh-language

Celtic noir drama

Newport, with its muddy river and post-industrial …

Shares in the Japanese carmaker

Nissan

Nissan’s shares fell by as much as 15% on Friday, before regaining …

Santa and his reindeer were not the only bodies making a celestial journey on 24 December: Nasa has revealed that its

Parker solar probe

It is the closest any human-made object has ever come …

For the fourth time this month, South Korea’s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country’s political future.

Safeguarding the

hard-won rights and freedoms

Ni, 61, holds court in Paris

You hear all sorts of whispers at the Olympics; my favourite this year was about the 61-year-old grandmother Ni Xialian, who had an outside shot in the women’s table tennis. She won world titles for China in the early 1980s, then fell in love …