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The mayor of London Sadiq Khan is understood to be in line to receive a knighthood in the new year honours list, alongside other senior politicians who will also be given awards.

Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a UK capital, is expected to be awarded for political and public …

So far the rebel advance in Syria appears unstoppable. On Friday, the columns of pick up trucks and motorbikes of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and their allies were reported to have reached the outskirts of the city of Homs, only 170kms from Damascus, the capital.

The extraordinarily rapid advance …

A £500m deal for 14 new trains has secured hundreds of jobs at Hitachi’s factory in north-east England.

The rail operator FirstGroup plans to use the five-carriage trains on its open-access services running from London, and has an option for an additional £460m investment if more services are granted.

Keir …

A “callous” and “selfish” man who gave abortion drugs to a pregnant woman without her knowledge, causing her to lose her unborn baby, has been jailed for 12 years.

Stuart Worby, 40, crushed a tablet into orange juice that the woman drank in 2022.

The defendant, of Dereham, Norfolk, then …

Forget Dry January, it could be Dry December for

Guinness fans

With its thick white foamy head …

The Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, has defended his driver Max Verstappen in the world champion’s increasingly ill-tempered feud with Mercedes’ George Russell and dismissed their

very public falling out

Late-night hosts talk the many

scandals

Jimmy Kimmel

It’s been a week of damaging stories about Pete Hegseth,

Donald Trump

The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after being accused of making lighthearted comments about his resignation over

serious safeguarding failures

In his final speech in the House of Lords on Thursday, Justin Welby had referenced a 14th-century beheading, which prompted laughter from …

The 14-day limit for human embryo research should be extended to 28 days, the fertility regulator has recommended in a move that could pave the way for breakthroughs in understanding the causes of miscarriages and heart defects.

If adopted in law, this would permit scientists to cultivate embryos to the …

The head of the senior civil servants union has written to Keir Starmer urging him to rethink his “frankly insulting” criticism of Whitehall for being comfortable with falling standards.

The general secretary of the FDA, the union for senior civil servants, suggested Starmer had invoked “Trumpian” language by claiming not …