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As Carolyn McCall

enters her eighth year as boss of ITV

she might be forgiven for wondering if maybe she shouldn’t have

turned down a chance to run Marks & Spencer instead.

McCall revealed the approach back in 2016 while quashing speculation she was poised to …

The fate and whereabouts of

former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad

remained unclear on Sunday as his ally Russia, which had long sustained him in office, said he had

resigned and departed the country

.

“As a result of negotiations between B. Assad and a number of participants …

An undercover police officer has denied that he set fire to a high street department store while masquerading as an animal rights campaigner, a public inquiry has heard.

Six witnesses have told the undercover policing inquiry that Bob Lambert, a police spy, was involved in an arson attack on a …

When the rebels finally reached Bashar al-Assad’s sprawling palace in Damascus, the

gates were open

. There was no traffic on the floodlit highways leading into the vast estate, and apparently no defenders among the carefully tended trees. In the empty guardhouses, coats were still hung on the …

On the face of it at least, the Bashar al-Assad of 2002 presented a starkly different figure to the brutal autocrat he would become, presiding over a fragile state founded on torture, imprisonment and industrial murder.

He had been president then for just two years, succeeding his father, Hafez, whose …

It could be crunch time for

“picky teas”

and party nibbles this Christmas amid fears of further shortages of cheese and chive dips, soups and pasta sauces after hundreds of workers at a food production site voted for three months of further strike action.

Industrial action at …

Lando Norris won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for McLaren and with it secured the constructors’ championship for his team, their first since 1998. In a tense race in the season finale, Norris had to beat Ferrari on his own from pole after his teammate Oscar Piastri was all but …

It was not a coincidence that the Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began its push for the city of Aleppo on the same day that Israel and Hezbollah agreed a ceasefire to end the fighting in Lebanon. The domino effect set in motion by Hamas on 7 October 2023 …

Parisians, the French and the world rediscovered the breathtaking beauty of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral on

Saturday evening

, five years after it was devastated by fire.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, led a guest list of international heads of state and other dignitaries including Donald …

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