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Indonesia has received an official request from France to transfer a French death row inmate imprisoned on drugs charges since 2005, a senior Indonesian minister said on Saturday.

“We have received a formal letter requesting the transfer of Serge Atlaoui on 19 December 2024. The letter was sent on behalf …

In a competition for attention between Australia’s first cricketing couple, Alyssa Healy has implored fans to watch the historic women’s Ashes Test at the MCG rather than her husband’s men’s Test in Sri Lanka.

This summer’s women’s Ashes starts with ODI and T20 matches next month, and ends with the …

A man has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of two women on Christmas Day in Milton Keynes.

Jazwell Brown, 49, has also been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count each of possession of a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public …

Nigel Farage has said he will take action against Kemi Badenoch unless she apologises for accusing him of publishing fake Reform membership data.

The Reform leader said he had opened up his database to media organisations after Badenoch claimed the rival party had coded an online counter to tick up …

Syd Hynes, who has died aged 80 after a short illness, gained notoriety by becoming the first player to be sent off in rugby league’s Challenge Cup final. Hynes was captaining Leeds against Leigh at Wembley in 1971 when he was dismissed for allegedly headbutting Leigh’s player-coach Alex Murphy.

The …

An Italian journalist has been arrested while reporting in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and held in solitary confinement for a week, according to Italy’s foreign ministry.

Cecilia Sala, 29, a war correspondent and reporter who works for the newspaper Il Foglio and the podcast company Chora Media, was detained on …

A severe weather warning is threatening to put a dampener on Hogmanay plans across Scotland as the nation braces for 48 hours of heavy rain.

The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for rain covering all of Scotland apart from Orkney and Shetland on 30 and 31 December, …

I was drawn to Jonathan Freedland’s article (

‘How do we live in this terrible world?’ a reader asked me. Here’s the only answer I have, 20 December

A footnote to the excellent article by Timothy Garton Ash (

What if Russia wins in Ukraine? We can already see the shadows of a dark 2025, 21 December

I added Preston’s of Potto to the game when Eddie Stobarts and Norbert Dentressangles became commonplace, and it was unusual to see all three on one journey (

Letters, 22 December