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Britain’s biggest festive getaway in years was set to start on Friday, as millions of people took to road, rail and skies to see thei loved ones over Christmas.

Airports, train operators and motoring organisations have all forecast traveller numbers unseen since before the pandemic.

With warnings of a seasonal …

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has urged the gambling hub of Macau to diversify away from casinos, as he addressed the Chinese territory at the inauguration of its new leader.

Xi was in Macau to mark the 25th anniversary of its return from Portuguese to Chinese rule on 20 December 1999. …

If a neighbourhood cat padded into your garden it would barely register a passing glance. But what if it was a whiskery, 300kg male sea lion, with a mouth full of teeth, seeking love on your doorstep, or a heavily pregnant sea lion lounging among the flowers?

For those living …

In years gone by, the two members of the House of Lords had been political enemies, running the headquarters of rival parties during hotly contested general election battles. In October, however, they stood side by side to pay their respects to the former president of Azerbaijan.

A wreath laid at …

It was during a workshop on macramé near Barcelona, between bouts of tugging on ropes and tying knots, that the conversation turned to the mass rape trial taking place in neighbouring France. After one woman at the table said she was considering travelling to Avignon for a rally in support …

Russia has hit Kyiv with eight powerful ballistic missiles, a day after Vladimir Putin claimed

his troops were winning on the battlefield

and that his maximalist goals to seize more territory in Ukraine were unchanged.

Several explosions were reported in Kyiv on Friday around 7am local time. …

For some months, Lord Mandelson had been going round London suggesting he had no desire to be

appointed to the role

of Washington ambassador, saying he would rather not become a hotel manager so late in his career.

His feigned lack of interest in shepherding a succession …

Workers at

Starbucks

stores in three cities plan to go on strike Friday after a union representing more than 11,000 baristas in the US said it was making little progress with the giant coffee chain’s owners over pay and conditions.

The walkouts will start in Los Angeles, …

In the account Dr Dewi Evans gives of the work he did for the police and prosecution cases against Lucy Letby, he says he suspected “foul play” within 10 minutes of reading the first medical records of a baby that he saw.

Evans, then 67, a retired consultant paediatrician, says …

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