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The US military has conducted airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African country during Donald Trump’s second term as president.

Trump said on Saturday that he ordered strikes on a senior IS attack planner and others from the organisation.

The president wrote in …

Maro Itoje was installed as England captain, primarily for two reasons. Firstly to give England a more abrasive, harder edge. Secondly, to help Steve Borthwick’s side close out matches, to steer them home in the second half, with the clock ticking down and the pressure turning up a few notches. …

Ireland

Hugo Keenan

Exceptional covering tackle on Tommy Freeman in the first half, and joined in the attack with intelligent support lines as usual.

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Mack Hansen

Big hit on Cadan Murley in the opening seconds was impressive and he bounced back well …

Dozens of anti-abortion activists streamed into the conference room of a Washington DC hotel. They jostled for seats as speakers, dotted throughout the room, blasted a song about the need to be “a little more like Jesus, a little less like me”.

By the time a trio of advocates, assembled …

Serbia’s powerful populist leader Aleksandar Vučić was facing his biggest challenge yet as student-led demonstrations intensified at the weekend in what was being called the Balkan country’s greatest protest movement ever.

Three months to the day after a concrete canopy collapsed at the entrance of Novi Sad’s railway station, tens …

Slow and steady rarely wins the Six Nations race. More often than not the old championship suits a strong frontrunner and the defending champions Ireland are up and running again. A much-improved second-half saw them overcome a 10-5 half-time deficit and left England to wonder what might have been had …

One Australian company has tentatively blocked staff from using the technology, others are scrambling for advice on its cybersecurity implications – while federal government ministers are urging caution.

But others have welcomed DeepSeek’s arrival, calling for Australia to follow China’s lead in developing powerful yet less energy-intensive AI technology.

In …

Rules banning scrutiny of the royal family in parliament must be changed in light of the continuing scandals about Prince Andrew, a Labour peer has said. Lord Foulkes is seeking a meeting this week with the clerk of the ­parliaments Simon Burton, who is head of the House of Lords …

US banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4bn of gold bullion weighing more than 937 tons to New York this month, before an anticipated escalation of Donald Trump’s trade-rebalancing-tariff moves planned for Saturday.

The US bank, the world’s biggest bullion dealer, said it would deliver the hefty raw material, weighed …

Everyone agreed it was the best camp they’d ever been to. The most fun. There was an interpretive dance class. Successful jump drills were met with high-fives all around. On the day of the Chinese new year, the kids all went out for hot pot. And parents and coaches, regardless …