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The BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year has long divided opinion – can it really be about personality when Nigel Mansell has won it twice? But however nebulous the criteria for winning,

Keely Hodgkinson ticked every possible box

UK inflation has risen to its highest level in eight months, adding to pressure on the Bank of England to keep interest rates unchanged on Thursday despite a slowdown in the British economy.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the consumer prices index (CPI) rose by 2.6% last …

Good morning.

In the early hours of yesterday morning,

Russian general Igor Kirillov and his deputy were killed

First of all, you have to say “fair play” to Australia for making a game of it. Losing some time out of day five of the Brisbane Test was already inevitable with the weather forecast. But when most of the first session disappeared due to lightning precautions and then rain, …

The world’s coal use is expected to reach a fresh high of 8.7bn tonnes this year, and remain at near-record levels for years as a result of a global gas crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

There has been record production and trade of coal and power generation from …

The frontrunner to be Germany’s next leader has pledged to end the infighting that has hobbled the country’s politics in recent years, even as he railed against his most likely coalition partners.

The country’s main parties kicked off their campaigns on Tuesday, a day after

Chancellor Olaf …

Ferries from Holyhead port in Wales, battered by

Storm Darragh

The

It was a gruesome morning scene. Two bodies lay sprawled in front of a shattered apartment block. Blood was visible on a thin coating of white snow. Wreckage was strewn over the pavement: broken glass, bricks, door frames, and an e-scooter tossed into a corner by a mighty explosion.

Two …

It is still in there somewhere. The kernel of a great competition, albeit visible only in fleeting glimpses. The shimmering class of Toulouse’s Antoine Dupont, a gripping win for Northampton in Pretoria, the celebrations at the final whistle in Italy after Benetton had downed the English league leaders Bath, the …

A senior Russian general has died after an explosive device hidden in an electric scooter detonated outside an apartment building in Moscow, in an attack claimed by Ukraine that marks one of the boldest targeted assassinations of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Lt Gen Igor …