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Nearly six years ago the 15-year-old Jacob Bethell was given the Gray Nicolls Young Cricketer of the Year award and I sat next to him at lunch after the presentation. I have been aware of his background and looked out for his name since then, though I did not have …

Passengers will be allowed to use expired identity documents to travel to the UK because of flaws in the eVisa system, a minister has told the Guardian.

Seema Malhotra, the migration and citizenship minister, said the government had postponed a planned full shift to the new digital immigration system amid …

In

declaring martial law

The last time martial law was declared, in 1980, hundreds of people were

killed by the …

When Emmanuel Macron

welcomes world leaders to the reopening of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral

Instead, …

Ministers are considering renationalising British Steel in a last-ditch attempt to save thousands of jobs, amid a standoff between the government and the company’s Chinese owners over a £1bn investment.

Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, is locked in talks with British Steel and its owner, Jingye, to agree how much …

Members of a spy ring plotted in autumn of 2022 to capture identifying details from mobile phones at a US airbase in Stuttgart in the belief that Ukrainian soldiers were training there on how to use Patriot air defence systems, the Old Bailey heard.

They planned to use a sophisticated …

There must be something in the water. It’s normally in early January that people start to think of giving themselves a makeover. New year! New you! That kind of nonsense. But this year, everyone appears to be getting ahead of the game and relaunching themselves in December. Even

The first time around, judge Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware court of chancery got it right. The $56bn pay package awarded by Tesla to Elon Musk in 2018 was indeed a governance abomination, a stitch-up in which ordinary shareholders weren’t told about

the “deeply flawed” process

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Callout

Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju came dangerously close to scoring a decisive result in Tuesday’s seventh game of his world championship match against Ding Liren only to allow his opponent off the hook, leaving the best-of-14-games match no closer to resolution in a 3½-all deadlock.

“The score is fine,” Gukesh said …