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Another week, another meteor shower. Last week it was the highly reliable Geminids meteor shower, this week it is the lesser shower known as the Ursids. Whereas the Geminids were disrupted by the presence of a full moon, the Ursids will appear in a largely dark sky. Only after midnight …

Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.

The report shows how

A collection of human bones discovered 50 years ago in a Somerset pit are evidence of the bloodiest known massacre in British prehistory – and of bronze age cannibalism, archaeologists say.

At least 37 men, women and children were killed at some point between 2200BC and 2000BC, with their …

Experienced Whitehall officials would have been forgiven for experiencing a sense of deja vu when listening to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, this month as she laid out her plans to drive efficiencies from the civil service as part of her spending review.

“The previous government allowed millions of pounds of …

Wang Tianyi, Wang Yuefei and Yan Chenglong

It has been something of an annus horribilis for Xiangqi, the ancient sport known in the west as Chinese chess. Its troubles started a year ago, on the very day that last year’s

anti-Spoty shortlist

Voters have broadly accepted that the £40bn in tax rises in Rachel Reeves’s first budget are “necessary” to improve public services, despite the majority expecting to be worse off as a result, according toresearch.

The chancellor announced in October

a package of tax increases

Prime minister Han Duck-soo, who became South Korea’s acting president after Saturday’s impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, is a career technocrat whose wide-ranging experience and reputation for rationality could serve him well in his latest role.

With

parliament’s impeachment vote

Benjamin Netanyahu has said he spoke to Donald Trump over the weekend about his plans in Syria and efforts to secure the release of hostages in Gaza amid a wave of strikes in the territory.

The Israeli prime minister said in an address on Sunday night: “We had a very …

On Sunday afternoon, the Bishop of Townsville received an anonymous text message he’d spent nearly two decades waiting for: “Wheels up, the Bali 5 are on their way back to Australia”.

Timothy Harris, who provided pastoral care to the families of Scott Rush and Michael Czugaj after their arrest in …

• Ukrainian officials

  accused Moscow of recklessness

  on Sunday after one oil tanker sank and a second vessel ran aground in the Kerch Strait between mainland Russia and occupied Crimea during stormy weather

  .

  Dmytro Pletenchuk

  , Ukraine’s navy spokesperson, said: “These are quite old Russian tankers. You can’t …