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It sounds like a brain stumper from a particularly fiendish pub quiz. Which major 2025 election is being fought over by several presidents, a vice-president, a prince, a lord, and a politician from Zimbabwe? And, for good measure, could be won for the first time by someone from Britain?

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João Diamante was gripped by a sense of belonging as he stepped out of the airport terminal thousands of miles from his birthplace in Brazil.

“The first thing I felt was that I was at home,” recalled the 33-year-old celebrity chef from Rio. “Nobody looked at me like they were …

The saga of Heathrow’s third runway has been continuing for decades, with ministerial resignations, U-turns from politicians against the backdrop of climate disaster, including 0.2C of global heating since the expansion was first proposed. Now the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is hoping to kickstart the expansion again in a push for …

Rachel Reeves is unveiling plans to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” between Oxford and Cambridge as she stakes the government’s success on kickstarting economic growth and putting more pounds in people’s pockets.

The chancellor will announce a blueprint to improve infrastructure across the region that will add up to £78bn to …

A triple whammy of climate impacts boosted the risk of the ferocious fires that recently ravaged Los Angeles, a scientific study has shown.

Firstly, the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the fires were made 35% more likely by the global heating caused by fossil fuel burning. Secondly, the …

Two people have been arrested in connection with a Just Stop Oil protest that disrupted a West End production of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver.

A 42-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after attending a central London police station, the Metropolitan police said. …

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said that “borders must not be moved by force” after a meeting with Denmark’s leader, Mette Frederiksen, intended to show European unity as Donald Trump presses his demands to gain control of Greenland.

The Danish prime minister met Scholz in Berlin, before meetings with …

Parts of the UK are facing another day of weather-related disruption as more rain and wind sweep across the country, while hundreds of people are having to clean up after homes and businesses were flooded.

Two Met Office severe weather warnings remained in place and there were concerns about further …

Good morning. Since the emergence of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool, American companies have appeared to have a huge head start in the development of the most significant technology of its generation.

But now a small Chinese rival has emerged that appears to match what OpenAI and the other …

A “catastrophic” collapse in shellfish numbers is being reported by Spanish fishers in Galicia, with some stocks falling by as much as 90% in the space of a few years.

Galicia is Europe’s principal source of shellfish and, after China, the world’s biggest producer of mussels, which are farmed in …