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Style and beauty count for only so much in top‑level sport, as Welsh and Scottish supporters were eventually reminded on Saturday. There are no marks for artistic merit, no specific rewards (beyond a try bonus point) for throwing the ball around in the name of entertainment. Occasionally, though, there are …

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have agreed to show “united leadership in support of Ukraine” when they separately meet Donald Trump this week.

The UK prime minister and the French president spoke on Sunday afternoon to reiterate the importance of Ukraine being at the centre of any negotiations to end …

If there were questions over France’s ability to finish teams off after coughing up numerous chances

against England a fortnight ago

Israel has sent tanks to the West Bank city of Jenin, in the first deployment of its kind in the area in more than two decades, as troops intensify operations in the territory that officials said will last at least a year.

The Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, said on …

About an hour after the final whistle on Saturday, England’s victorious players still swigging from the Calcutta Cup, Steve Borthwick was deep inside Twickenham discussing how his players finally got

their hands back on the trophy

Tommy Freeman has admitted that England understand supporters’ frustrations amid a chorus of boos during the scrappy victory over Scotland but believes Steve Borthwick’s side are still alive in the Six Nations title race after back-to-back wins.

Borthwick has revealed that Freeman’s Northampton teammate George Furbank is unlikely to feature …

The England players who hit the golf course on Sunday morning probably did the right thing, really. Back at the team hotel they were replaying the

defeat against Australia

The Taliban have arrested a British couple in their 70s for “teaching mothers parenting with children”.

Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife, Barbie, 75, were detained when returning to their home in the Bamiyan province on 1 February.

The couple have been running projects in schools in Afghanistan for 18 …

The conservative opposition CDU/CSU has won the most votes in Germany’s general election, exit polls indicated, but a surge by the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is likely to complicate the formation of a government ready to help spearhead a European response to new global threats.

The CDU/CSU candidate, …

John Harris’s article mentions the March 2024 rules banning new migrant care workers from bringing dependants (

In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted, 16 February

Less well known is that thousands of health and care …