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It is billed as “Trials Day” ahead of the four-day Festival meeting here which opens in just over six weeks, but 20,000 spectators were very much living in the moment here on Saturday as Constitution Hill, perhaps the finest hurdler of all time, went to post for the Unibet Hurdle …

In a sports hall on the outskirts of Ramallah, three skinny men in grey prison sweatsuits and plastic sandals embraced their beaming friends before being lifted on to their shoulders and carried out into the waiting crowds.

Outside the friends and families of those released gathered in anticipation, some waving …

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of Leo Ross, 12, who was stabbed while walking home from school in Birmingham.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been remanded in custody to appear at Birmingham magistrates court on Monday having been charged on Saturday, …

The villa where Rudolf Höss and his family lived stood immediately next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The garden wall of the villa was the wall of the camp.

At Christmas time, they put up a tree in the living room and festooned it with ornaments and candles. In the …

Rachel Reeves needs to rid herself of ­troublesome farmers. It’s become obvious, if it wasn’t at the time of the budget, that they are not going to go away.

Their shouts of protest are getting louder and the petition against proposals to tax inherited farms is growing longer.

Wes Streeting was heckled by climate protesters during a speech calling on progressives to stand up to the “populist right”.

Two women shouted at the health secretary as he addressed the Fabian Society, urging the centre-left to take on the

“miserablist, declinist vision”

Seven years before Axel Rudakubana launched the Southport attack, a new category was quietly added into the UK’s Prevent counter-terrorism scheme. Labelled “

mixed, unstable or unclear ideology

One of the world’s oldest retailers, WH Smith, has confirmed it is in talks to sell its city- and town-centre stores, which it has described as the “hub of the high street”.

First established in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street in London by Henry Walton Smith and his wife, Anna, …

Diamonds are woven through the tapestry of human history. The ancient Greeks were enthralled by their remarkable hardness. The

Koh-i-Noor

Almost three years ago, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine wiped out Europe’s largest source of gas and shocked global energy markets, setting the stage for quarter after quarter of better-than-expected earnings for the fossil fuel producers ready to profit from the volatility. Now those returns are beginning to cool.

But as …