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The Met has been judged to be turning around its extensive failings and has been removed from special measures after more than two years under extra scrutiny.

The decision was announced by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services on Thursday.

The Met, Britain’s largest police force, employs …

A board game based on the mafia wars that raged in Sicily in the 1980s has caused controversy in Italy, with the sister of the murdered anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone describing it as an offence to all those who had fought to free Italy of organised crime.

La Famiglia: The …

The head of the Nato military alliance has called for a “step up” in support for Ukraine, to put Kyiv in the strongest position to achieve a sustainable peace deal with Russia.

Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mark Rutte warned against scaling back support …

Buffalo Bills: Sean McDermott, head coach

The Bills offense is a machine, with Josh Allen playing the best all-around ball of his career. But the Bills will only go as deep as McDermott, their head coach and defensive architect, can take them.

Who knows what happened to McDermott? Maybe it …

The EU’s new trade chief has said the bloc could consider including the UK in a pan-European trade agreement, but emphasised that “the ball is in the UK’s court”.

While the UK’s Labour government has ruled out returning to the single market and customs union after Brexit, the possibility of …

Sales at Primark have fallen for the first time since the pandemic forced all shops in the UK to close, as mild weather and low consumer confidence hit sales.

Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns the fashion retailer, said sales at Primark’s established stores fell 6% in the final three …

There was a lovely moment after the Trinidad Test a couple of years back. With the final day’s play between India and West Indies washed out and the match drawn, Ravindra Jadeja and Jomel Warrican went up to the top of the covered stand to chat spin bowling.

And, …

Australia’s most popular airline loyalty program is set for some major changes.

This week, Qantas announced it was broadly increasing the amount of frequent flyer points needed to redeem Classic Reward flights – a move that has already irked points collectors.

With Qantas effectively lowering the value of frequent flier …

The government’s statistics agency is spending £8m to hire an army of low-paid temporary workers amid efforts to fix its “virtually unusable” data on unemployment and wages in Britain.

Under pressure over the quality of its data, the

Office for National Statistics

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A few days after a ceasefire brought at least temporary relief to Gaza, violence erupted in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday, the Israeli military launched what was described as

an extensive raid in the city of Jenin