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Over history, dukes, dictators and Europe’s illustrious elite have walked through the Vasari corridor, a narrow, 750-metre-long elevated passageway crossing the Arno River in Florence.

Now visitors to the Tuscan capital can follow in their footsteps when the newly restored landmark, which connects the Uffizi Galleries with the Pitti Palace …

Monday

Another Christmas, another terrible disappointment for the Duke of York, only recently received back into the fold after all that unpleasantness with Jeffrey Epstein and now, cruelly, exiled once more. News of the

Andrew’s association with Yang Tengbo

A double killer freed from prison after being deemed low risk by the Parole Board has been sentenced to a whole-life term for murdering a neighbour who gave him odd jobs to help his rehabilitation.

Brian Whitelock, 57, who had been released after serving 18 years for the double killing, …

A record number of people who have taken part in protests will be in prison in the UK this Christmas, raising concern about the ongoing crackdown on dissent.

Forty people, aged from 22 to 58, will be behind bars on Christmas Day for planning, or taking part in, a variety …

Two men have been charged over a disturbance at Manchester airport involving police officers in July, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz, 20, from Rochdale, has been charged with two counts of causing actual bodily harm, one charge of assaulting an emergency worker, and one charge of common …

The king will not look back on his annus horribilis “with undiluted pleasure”, as his late mother with masterly understatement so memorably observed of her own.

His cancer diagnosis

The Iranian government is attempting to salvage some influence with Syria’s new leaders, as Tehran reels from its sudden loss of authority in Damascus after the collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, is already facing multiple domestic and international crises, including power cuts due …

King Charles’s cancer treatment will reportedly continue in 2025 almost a year after it was announced he had been diagnosed with the disease.

A Buckingham Palace source told

Sky News

Game of the week

Pittsburgh Steelers (10-4) v Baltimore Ravens (9-5)

The battle for the AFC North nears its climax with two bitter rivals gutting it out for hallowed home-field advantage in the playoffs. If the Pittsburgh Steelers continue their hot streak and earn a fifth successive win …

Tom Ilube has stepped down as the chairman of the Rugby Football Union due to the executive pay and bonus scandal that has engulfed the game.

Ilube, who took up the role in 2021, admitted in a brief statement that “recent events have become a distraction from the game” amid …