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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’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 …

The burglar who stole £10m worth of jewellery in one of

Britain’s biggest ever heists

Police are hunting for the suspect, described as a “lone wolf”, after …

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25 December

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A brimming biscuit tin and a warm welcome – this is how an Englishman found his home in Wales, 30 December

In the days leading up to Christmas, stout-lovers were left reeling from a nationwide

shortage of Guinness

Supermarkets remain at risk of running out due to customers’ …

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 …

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 …

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” …

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 …