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London welcomes new year with fireworks as weather cancels events across UK
The UK has welcomed 2025 with fireworks and celebrations in London, but many events across the country were cancelled due to bad weather.
Tens of thousands of people attended the annual event in the capital, with millions more tuning in on television.
Speaking ahead of the spectacle, the London mayor, …
Ecuador confirms incinerated bodies belong to missing ‘Guayaquil Four’ boys
Ecuador’s attorney general’s office has confirmed that incinerated bodies found on Christmas Eve belong to the four children missing since early December, in a case posing a severe challenge to President Daniel Noboa’s “war on drugs”.
The four boys – all black, aged between 11 and 15, and residents of …
Burglar who stole £10m worth of jewellery from London mansion broke in through bathroom window
Here’s how we could reform the Lords for the 21st century | Letters
Love Wales for its language as well as its landscape | Brief letters
Great Guinness heist: thieves stole truck carrying 20,000 pints
Israelis banned from competing in World Indoor Bowls Championships
Israeli players have been banned from next month’s World Indoor Bowls Championships in Norfolk after a campaign by pro-Palestinian groups.
The decision was widely condemned by Jewish groups and the local MP, Rupert Lowe, who called it a victory for “the mob”.
Three Israelis were expected to compete in the …
Seven-year-old boy visits every city in England by train
An achievement for a lot of seven-year-olds in 2024 might have been riding a bike without stabilisers or tying their own shoelaces, but for one boy it was visiting every city in England with his dad by train.
Austin, seven, and his father, Ashley, “about 37”, began their quest by …
‘Preying on investors’: how software firm MicroStrategy’s big bet on bitcoin went stratospheric
In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies around the world, an obscure US software firm decided to diversify. MicroStrategy, whose head office is situated next to a shopping mall and metro station in Tysons Corner, Virginia, had decided the steady business of “software as a service” …
‘The forest will survive’: the volunteers saving Kharkiv’s war-charred woodland
Yuriy Bengus, a biologist, surveyed a scene of destruction. The Zhuravli forest, on the northern edge of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, was a blackened mess. Rooks cawed from burned pine trees and hopped between stumps. A dead bird lay in an abandoned military dugout. War was down the road. From …