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Keir Starmer has paid tribute to his brother, Nick, who had cancer and died on Boxing Day aged 60.

The prime minister said his younger brother was “a wonderful man” who “met all the challenges life threw at him with courage and good humour”.

He said in a statement: “I …

The Welsh capital is often used as a setting for film and television drama, as are the country’s mountains, forests and coastlines, but a city sometimes seen as Cardiff’s poorer relative is starring in a new Welsh-language

Celtic noir drama

Newport, with its muddy river and post-industrial …

Shares in the Japanese carmaker

Nissan

Nissan’s shares fell by as much as 15% on Friday, before regaining …

When the patrons of Watford’s Przym nightclub celebrated New Year’s Eve on 31 December 2023, they were marking the end of an era, or rather, the end of seven eras. Like every beloved local club, the venue had been known by multiple names over the years: Top Rank, Bailey’s, Paradise …

Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has dissolved parliament and called a snap election on 23 February after Olaf Scholz’s fractious three-way coalition collapsed three years into its mandate.

The national vote will come seven months ahead of schedule amid a rocky stretch of unusual political turmoil for the EU’s top economic …

Houthi rebels in Yemen claim to have retaliated against Israeli airstrikes on Sana’a’s airport early on Friday with a missile aimed at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport and a drone attack on Tel Aviv.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said their defences intercepted the ballistic missile before it reached Israeli airspace, …

Santa and his reindeer were not the only bodies making a celestial journey on 24 December: Nasa has revealed that its

Parker solar probe

It is the closest any human-made object has ever come …

For the fourth time this month, South Korea’s parliament has become the arena for a rancorous battle for the country’s political future.

Safeguarding the

hard-won rights and freedoms

Ni, 61, holds court in Paris

You hear all sorts of whispers at the Olympics; my favourite this year was about the 61-year-old grandmother Ni Xialian, who had an outside shot in the women’s table tennis. She won world titles for China in the early 1980s, then fell in love …

There was a lot riding on the Paris Paralympics, but they delivered. A Games that had the challenge not only of exciting the people of Paris but of reviving the movement behind disability sport served up world-class entertainment to full stadiums and left a legacy of a more accessible French …