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The archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after being accused of making lighthearted comments about his resignation over

serious safeguarding failures

In his final speech in the House of Lords on Thursday, Justin Welby had referenced a 14th-century beheading, which prompted laughter from …

A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.

The momentous move by the court effectively voids the national election, which will have to …

The televised cards at Sandown and Aintree on Saturday are both subject to precautionary inspections, at 7am and 7.30am respectively, with Storm Darragh threatening to bring high winds and rain across the country, but if the elements are kind, Jonbon’s short price for the Grade One Tingle Creek Chase at …

The 14-day limit for human embryo research should be extended to 28 days, the fertility regulator has recommended in a move that could pave the way for breakthroughs in understanding the causes of miscarriages and heart defects.

If adopted in law, this would permit scientists to cultivate embryos to the …

The head of the senior civil servants union has written to Keir Starmer urging him to rethink his “frankly insulting” criticism of Whitehall for being comfortable with falling standards.

The general secretary of the FDA, the union for senior civil servants, suggested Starmer had invoked “Trumpian” language by claiming not …

Syrian insurgents have entered towns just north of the country’s third largest city, Homs, sweeping along a highway that eventually leads to the capital, Damascus, in a lightning-fast advance that has shaken the Middle East.

Militants spearheaded by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

took control of …

‘A lot of famous people are arseholes,” says Sandi Toksvig. “I don’t like people because they are famous or rich. My father was incredibly famous, the most famous man in Denmark. So I’ve seen it up close and have no interest in fame whatsoever.” I have been talking with Toksvig …

The US added 227,000 jobs in November, with 54,000 added jobs in healthcare, 53,000 leisure and hospitality jobs and 33,000 government jobs added in the month

The unemployment rate increased to 4.2%, from 4.1% in October.

The final jobs report of 2024 was released prior to the December meeting …

The World Health Organization is warning that the pace of medical evacuations of sick and wounded Palestinians out of Gaza, including several thousand children, is so slow that it will take five to 10 years to clear the backlog at the current rate.

Rik Peeperkorn, the UN global health body’s …

Friday afternoons are better known as a time to quietly bury bad news, not loudly drop one of the biggest albums of the year – but Kendrick Lamar doesn’t really operate by the usual rules of media engagement.

The rapper’s recent career path has felt wildly counterintuitive: right as he …