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An engineering student accused of drugging and raping women has said he took drugs and viewed pornography, with his favourite scenes involving sleeping women.

Zhenhao Zou, 27, is accused of raping 10 women and filming his attacks. He denies all the charges.

Giving evidence in his own defence, he said …

England players have been shown Calcutta Cup video nasties for extra motivation as they seek to end a miserable run against Scotland on Saturday.

Steve Borthwick’s side will bid for a first win against the auld enemy in five years buoyed by their

one-point victory against France

They came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.

The leaders of France, …

A Syrian migrant living in Austria has been hailed as a hero after he rammed his car into an attacker, bringing down a radicalised assailant who had killed one teenager and left five others injured.

The stabbing, described by Austria’s interior minister

as having been

Rachel Reeves has been dealt a fresh blow after

her controversial move to intervene

Judges at the supreme court on Monday rejected the …

Kemi Badenoch has said “our country and all of western civilisation will be lost” if efforts to renew the Conservative party and drive forward rightwing ideas globally fail.

Likening her own leadership to Donald Trump’s second term, she used a gathering of fellow conservatives to attack Keir Starmer for taking …

More than 65,000 people have signed a petition urging a council to reinstate the pitch of

a wildly popular jacket potato seller

Spudman, also known as Ben Newman, has 4 million followers on TikTok who watch as he serves potatoes with generous toppings that include cheese, beans, …

As Elon Musk’s unelected “Doge” troops slash and burn US federal departments (

Elon Musk appears with Trump and tries to claim ‘Doge’ team is transparent, 12 February

Forty years on from his first Cheltenham festival success, with See You Then in the 1985 Champion Hurdle, Nicky Henderson is still at the peak of his profession – and still taking nothing for granted.

“The only time I’ve ever been confident about anything was Altior’s Supreme [Novice Hurdle in …

China has called on the United States to “correct its mistakes” after a statement that Washington does not support an independent Taiwan was removed from the state department website.

Beijing views Taiwan as part of its territory and has refused to rule out using force to unify with the self-ruled …