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Seven-year-old Necati Karki had gathered with his family as part of a crowd in their neighbourhood in northern Berlin when a treacherous new addition to the New Year’s Eve festivities went off: a “firework bomb”.

Fired out of a pipe by unknown assailants and possibly deliberately aimed at the targets, …

Michael Sheen, a global star of screen and stage, is spearheading a new national theatre for Wales, promising to create big, bold plays that bring vital stories about his homeland to life.

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Now the National Trust is marking its 130th anniversary by unveiling “moonshot” plans to address what it regards …

• Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the latest in a series of meetings with Kyiv’s western allies in Germany had resulted in pledges of an additional $2bn in military assistance

  to help it fight the war against Russia

  . Zelenskyy, speaking to My-Ukraina television channel after Thursday’s meeting of the …

One is giving tennis a last shot before a potential pivot to fashion design. Two veterans, desperate to prove they still belong. Then there is a pair of the most promising young female Australian players in recent memory.

The local contingent contesting the Australian Open women’s singles are full of …

Ishmael Toroama’s life has been dominated by a single ambition. The president of Bougainville, an autonomous island that is part of the Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea, has for decades fought for his island to claim its sovereignty.

“Bougainville is for independence,” the president insists. “It is only a …

The price at which tickets for live events can be resold is to be capped under “gamechanging” proposals put forward by the government to crack down on touting in the sector.

In a move hailed by music industry figures, the culture minister, Lisa Nandy, has launched a consultation that she …

The reasons given for a peerage awarded by Boris Johnson have been described as “inadequate” and a “mystery” by a freedom of information campaigner after an 18-month struggle.

Charlotte Owen, a former special adviser in the Conservative government, was appointed to the House of Lords in

Johnson’s …

A grassroots rebellion has accused the Rugby Football Union of “postponing the inevitable” after the governing body rejected an attempt to force the removal of the chief executive, Bill Sweeney, amid the pay and bonuses scandal.

On another remarkable day at the RFU, a group of 141 members from across …

Scotland Yard has banned a pro-Palestine march from gathering outside the BBC’s London headquarters next week, owing to its proximity to a synagogue.

Protesters were planning to gather outside Broadcasting House in Portland Place on Saturday before marching to Whitehall. On Thursday evening, police said they had imposed the Public …