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England are poised to select both Fin Smith and Marcus Smith in the same starting team to face France in the Six Nations this weekend. The young Northampton outside-half is in line to make his first start in the No 10 jersey with the Harlequin fly-half set to be redeployed …

Two Panamanian lawyers have lodged a lawsuit with the country’s supreme court in an attempt to cancel a Hong Kong-based company’s concession to operate two ports at either end of the Panama canal.

Their complaint – filed a day after the US secretary of state,

Marco Rubio

Donald Trump’s on-off tariffs are at least good for one thing: they provide struggling managements with a handy excuse to ditch their sales forecasts. Diageo, the Guinness, Johnnie Walker and Smirnoff combo, was able to cite “the current macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty” – exhibit A being the possible US tariffs …

Labour MPs whose seats are under threat from Reform UK have set up a pressure group that will urge Keir Starmer to take a tougher stance on migration and crime, amid growing concern about the rise of the rightwing populist party.

MPs drawn from the 89 constituencies where Reform came …

One of the “godfathers” of modern artificial intelligence has predicted a further revolution in the technology by the end of the decade because current systems are too limited to create domestic robots and fully automated cars.

Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, said new breakthroughs are …

Vladimir Putin has ordered the revival of the Soviet-era alternative to the Eurovision song contest after Russia was banned from participating in the competition.

The Russian leader signed a decree on Monday instructing officials to revive the Intervision song contest in Moscow this year with the aim of “developing international …

Keir Starmer should not retaliate if Donald Trump hits the UK with trade tariffs, the former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned, with ministers braced for the president’s latest round of economic measures.

The former chancellor told the Guardian the UK did not have enough economic firepower to start a trade …

The SNP minority government has passed its budget and avoided triggering an early election after securing a coalition of support at Holyrood.

The tax and spending plans, which provide £21.7bn for health and social care, including £200m to reduce waiting times and tackle delayed discharge, passed the first parliamentary stage, …

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has offered to accept deportees from the United States of any nationality and hold them in his jails, including “dangerous American criminals”, Marco Rubio said on Monday.

The US secretary of state, who this week made his

first overseas trip

Lawyers representing 3,500 claimants are preparing to sue the pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) over alleged links between talcum powder and cancer, in what is expected to be one of the largest pharmaceutical product group actions in English and Welsh legal history.

They claim that thousands of women and …