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Syrian insurgents have entered towns just north of the country’s third largest city, Homs, sweeping along a highway that eventually leads to the capital, Damascus, in a lightning-fast advance that has shaken the Middle East.

Militants spearheaded by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

took control of …

‘A lot of famous people are arseholes,” says Sandi Toksvig. “I don’t like people because they are famous or rich. My father was incredibly famous, the most famous man in Denmark. So I’ve seen it up close and have no interest in fame whatsoever.” I have been talking with Toksvig …

The US added 227,000 jobs in November, with 54,000 added jobs in healthcare, 53,000 leisure and hospitality jobs and 33,000 government jobs added in the month

The unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, from 4.1% in October.

The final jobs report of 2024 was released prior to the December meeting …

The World Health Organization is warning that the pace of medical evacuations of sick and wounded Palestinians out of Gaza, including several thousand children, is so slow that it will take five to 10 years to clear the backlog at the current rate.

Rik Peeperkorn, the UN global health body’s …

Friday afternoons are better known as a time to quietly bury bad news, not loudly drop one of the biggest albums of the year – but Kendrick Lamar doesn’t really operate by the usual rules of media engagement.

The rapper’s recent career path has felt wildly counterintuitive: right as he …

In the global battle for soft-power supremacy, a clear winner has emerged in recent years:

South Korea

But just days ago, as anticipation …

Monday

A man dies on the sidewalk at the hands of a masked gunman and much of the commentary around it is unsympathetic. While details of the killing of Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street this week are still emerging, the assumption is that his murder relates to his profession …

A former soldier accused of two murders on Bloody Sunday has pleaded not guilty as he was formally returned for trial after an attempt to get the case thrown out was refused.

Ex-paratrooper Soldier F, who cannot be identified, is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney when members …

Boy Swallows Universe

Campaigners are calling for planning rules to be consider the environmental implications of knocking down buildings after a controversial redevelopment of Marks & Spencer’s historic store on London’s Oxford Street was

given the green light

Save Britain’s Heritage said national policy should consider the …