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Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, has admitted his party faces a significant challenge to win the next Holyrood elections after its popularity slumped in the polls.

His party’s support has fallen by half since the chancellor cut the winter fuel payment and raised national insurance costs last year, leaving …

President Donald Trump has criticised Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying he was “disappointed” that the Ukrainian leader complained about being left out of

talks between the US and Russia

Trump also

seemed to blame Kyiv

Putting aside the petulant Giorgia Meloni, who drove up to the steps of the Élysée Palace in a Maserati one hour late wearing a white coat and a pose designed to reveal her disdain at being anywhere near

Emmanuel Macron

Chris Jones has always had an eye for talent and for cultivating relationships. As a cadet reporter with Leader Newspapers in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, he struck up a friendship with a young local player, Sam Mitchell. He introduced Mitchell to his future wife. Their respective careers blossomed, and Jones was …

• A Ukrainian drone squad knocked out a North Korean self-propelled howitzer in the Luhansk region, Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday.

  The Khortytsia, or east, group of forces said it was the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion that a “very rare” North Korean M-1978 Koksan …

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly helping to mastermind a far-right conspiracy to cling to power through a military coup.

The South American country’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet, levelled the charges against the radical rightwing populist and several key allies on Tuesday night.

Bolsonaro, who experts …

Cynics be damned. Against all the odds Formula One, it seems, simply cannot put a foot wrong. With the hope of spectacle, theatre and drama without so much as a wheel turning, F1 was taking an unprecedented leap into the unknown by launching the new season with its F175 show. …

Clean energy contributed a record 10% of China’s gross domestic product in 2024, an analysis has found.

With sales and investments worth 13.6tn yuan (£1.5tn; $1.9tn), the sector has now overtaken real estate sales in value.

Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and batteries have all played a major role in …

Retailers will be required to report suspicious or bulk purchases of knives, and those caught selling blades to under-18s will face tougher sentences under a new raft of measures to clamp down on young people’s access to weapons labelled Ronan’s law.

Named after Ronan Kanda, the 16-year-old