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Labake Ajiboye-Richard, the founder of a Lagos-based sustainability consultancy, was driving in Nigeria’s most populous city earlier this month when she saw someone throwing rubbish out of their car window.

“I was so shocked to see that in 2024,” she said. “If you’re throwing something on the road, what are …

An investigation has been launched after a rail passenger was forced to run several metres along the platform with his hand trapped inside the doors of a moving train in west London.

The passenger, who was trying to board an Elizabeth line service just after midnight, had his hand caught …

A murder investigation has been launched after the body of a missing Hungarian woman, known as Mariann, was found in Greater Manchester.

A 61-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody being questioned by detectives.

Mariann was last seen in Bolton on 14 December and …

A bold-jumping grey in the King George at Kempton: for a dozen years from the mid‑1980s, it was a Boxing Day tradition as Desert Orchid, One Man and Teeton Mill racked up seven wins from nine appearances between them. And as Robert Kirkland, a racehorse owner for nearly 40 years, …

A 28-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of an Elizabeth line worker in east London.

Jorge Ortega, 61, died in hospital from head injuries after officers from the British Transport Police (BTP) were called to Ilford station just before 8.50pm on 5 December. He died the …

Every summer, Dongting Hu, China’s second-largest freshwater lake, swells in size as flood water from the Yangtze River flows into its borders. Dams and dikes are erected around the lake’s edges to protect against flooding. But this year, not for the first time, they were overwhelmed.

For three days in …

The British car industry has welcomed government proposals that could allow

Toyota Prius-style hybrids

The UK government published details on Christmas Eve of a consultation …

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Nasa’s Parker solar probe is about to make its closest ever flyby of the sun, passing 3.8m miles from its surface on Christmas Eve.

The spacecraft will make the record-breaking approach, known as a perihelion, at 6.53am US eastern time (1153 GMT).

The mission team will lose contact with their …

The British pop superstar Adele is not on tour in Brazil at the moment, but her absence was deeply regretted last week in Rio de Janeiro – not at a major festival like Rock in Rio or a

mega-concert like Madonna’s at Copacabana Beach