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Rachael Clarke remembers life before buffer zones. Almost every day, the head of staff at the UK’s biggest abortion provider would get emails from staff worried about protesters outside clinics – and women crying in the waiting room.

Some of the protesters had huge placards with graphic images of foetuses. …

After three years of Russia’s attempt to occupy and annex Ukraine, the country continues to put up a fierce resistance.

Russia is suffering more than 1,500 casualties a day and only slowly taking ground. But the Ukrainian army is also being put under immense pressure.

As the opening moves are …

When she set sail around the world from the west coast of France three months ago, Violette Dorange was barely known outside her sport. By the time she returned last week, she was a

household name in her country

At 23, Dorange has become the youngest solo …

In the end, then, everyone got something they wanted. For Jannik Sinner, the

three-month ban he has accepted

Life must be great as a baby: to be fed and clothed and carried places in soft pouches, to be waved and smiled at by adoring strangers, to have the temerity to scream because food hasn’t arrived quickly enough, and then to throw it on the ground when it is …

After winning an Olympic 800m gold medal and the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award, Keely Hodgkinson set herself a bold new challenge: getting a whole new generation of fans into track and field.

Foolish? Brave? Or visionary? The sceptics and gatekeepers certainly had their doubts. But the sight …

Kemi Badenoch is being urged to overhaul her approach to

prime minister’s questions

Some MPs are complaining that their fledgling leader is raising …

When Rachel Reeves stood up in the House of Commons on budget day on 30 October as this country’s first woman chancellor, she was brimming with pride: “To girls and young women everywhere, I say: Let there be no ceiling on your ambition, your hopes and your dreams.”

Four months …

Google has cooperated with autocratic regimes around the world, including the Kremlin in Russia and the Chinese Communist party, to facilitate censorship requests, an

Observer

The technology company has engaged with the administrations of about 150 countries since 2011 that want information scrubbed from their public …

Johannes Thingnes Boe outclassed the field to win gold for Norway in the men’s 10km sprint at the International Biathlon Union World Championships on Saturday, with Campbell Wright clinching a shock silver for the United States.

The New Zealand-born American finished 27.7 seconds behind Thingnes Boe, who won in 21 …