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For the pope, it was the wrong kind of madonna.

The pop legend, she of the 80’s anthem Like a Prayer, has stirred controversy in recent weeks by posting deepfake images on social media which show the pontiff embracing her. It has fanned the flames of a debate which is …

The warm Valencia air, still thick with dust and carrying a residual note of mud and damp concrete, begins to reek on the approach to the roadside dump where diggers toil, gulls scavenge and the detritus of countless everyday lives rises in mounds.

Almost two months on, the legacy of …

More than 80 countries headed to the polls in 2024

On a recent icy afternoon in the western Ukrainian city of Kovel, a silver-haired man in military fatigues prepared to board a train. A small boy hugged him at the knees, reluctant to let go. “Come on Dima, say goodbye to grandad,” his mother told him, pulling him away.

A …

Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than other workers to die of Alzheimer’s disease, according to

a Harvard study

On the one hand, it makes total sense, navigation and spatial memory belonging in the hippocampus, which is the first region …

Over the 2024 general election period, combined donations to every UK party

totalled

Members of Greece’s former royal family have applied for Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country’s republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 years after the monarchy was abolished, officials have confirmed.

The late king Constantine II and his family members were stripped of Greek citizenship in 1994 …

• At least two people have been killed and 68 injured after a driver

  ploughed a car into a crowd at a Christmas market

  in the eastern German town of Magdeburg

  on Friday evening. Fifteen people were left in a critical condition and a small child was among …

• The IMF’s executive board approved a $1.1bn disbursement to Ukraine as part of an ongoing loan programme to provide budget support.

  The approval on Friday bolsters Ukraine as it faces continued Russian attacks, and comes just over a month after staff at the International Monetary Fund completed the …

WhatsApp claimed legal victory over the maker of Pegasus spyware late on Friday.

The Israeli company, NSO Group Technologies, was accused in a lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of infecting and surveilling the phones of 1,400 people over a two-week period in May 2019 via its notorious Pegasus software.

The …