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The distinct interiors of the House of Lords fill the pages of the online brochure: the royal staircase, the robing room and the royal gallery. They provide a regal flavour of an event aimed at the construction industry – one that can be sponsored for up to £25,000.

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The Unilever chief executive, Hein Schumacher, has stepped down after just over a year and a half in the job and will be succeeded by the consumer goods company’s finance chief.

In a surprise announcement, the maker of Knorr, Marmite, Dove and Ben & Jerry’s said Schumacher would relinquish the …

Taiwan’s coastguard has detained a cargo ship and its Chinese crew after an undersea cable in the Taiwan Strait was damaged on Tuesday, saying it cannot rule out the possibility it was a deliberate “grey zone” act.

“Whether the cause of the undersea cable breakage was intentional sabotage or a …

Labour is losing support fastest among voters who feel economically insecure, according to a report urging Keir Starmer to focus on boosting living standards, rather than on culture wars and immigration.

The prime minister has faced

calls from some backbench Labour MPs

Good morning. It’s a time-honoured tradition: the minister arriving to speak to a conference hall full of people who absolutely hate him, and getting roundly pilloried as he sticks to the government line. Today, it might be the environment secretary Steve Reed’s turn. His adversaries: a large number of implacably …

A motorway bridge collapse has killed at least three people and injured seven as spans of the partly built structure collapsed one after the other.

The accident took place on Tuesday in Anseong, about 70km (43.5 miles) from Seoul, when five 50-metre steel support structures collapsed in turn after being …

• Nordic and Baltic countries on Monday pledged to increase military aid to Ukraine, including training and weapons, as their leaders visited Kyiv.

  They pledged to provide additional support for Ukraine, including equipping and training a “scalable brigade-sized unit” and investing in Ukraine’s defence industry. A brigade was 3,000 …

With each gust of wind came a wave of body odour, the stench of two-dozen men wafting through the small hatch of the prison cell’s heavy iron door. Inside, gaunt prisoners clad in brown jumpsuits sat on thin gray mattresses.

Six years have passed since the end of the so-called …

It was a delicate balancing act for the man once considered Europe’s “Trump whisperer”.

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, was seated in the Oval Office gently

trying to factcheck Donald Trump

The creative industries are fighting back against UK government proposals to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission.

The latest protest is a silent album co-written by more than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, and follows a statement signed by 48,000 creatives including Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus in which …