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Ireland

There was a suspicion of vulnerability to Ireland coming into the Six Nations but they have answered those questions in style so far. Perhaps we’d just become a bit complacent about their standards but, as the only side unbeaten after two rounds, they look formidable.

We can talk about …

Many UK-based independent sellers on marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon could suffer a significant hit to US sales from planned changes to import rules under Donald Trump, with experts comparing the impact to a second Brexit.

The new rules, which mean all parcels originating or made in China and …

Today’s two questions test your geometrical smarts. The first is about a triangle, the second about a square.

1. Tricky triangle

This one was sent in by a reader, aged 85, who first saw it in 1960. He is a roboticist who passed through Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and …

The Ultra is Samsung’s largest and greatest phone and is packed to the gills with the very latest technology, which means more artificial intelligence than ever before.

The Galaxy S25 Ultra is at the front of the line of a new wave of Android phones that promise to basically do …

Good morning.

Picture this: you’re in a supermarket looking for breakfast bits or something easy for lunch. You wander over to the egg aisle, scan the prices, and think: what is going on?

In the UK, egg prices have, in some cases, risen by nearly 20% since the start of …

This week, we track down a faint and often overlooked constellation. Monoceros, the unicorn, spans the celestial equator, which makes it visible from most parts of the world. It often goes unnoticed, however, because it is surrounded by much more prominent constellations such as Orion, Canis Major, Canis Minor, and …

Brazil has asked the UN to throw out plans for a

new levy on global shipping

The proposed levy on carbon dioxide emissions from shipping will be discussed at …

“Have you ever wondered what you’d do if your world is destroyed?” asks 13-year-old Abdullah, speaking at the beginning of an intimate BBC Two documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, that airs on Monday night. “Most important, could you stay alive? After all this, you could say we’re experts.”

Rachel Reeves has been warned public sector unions will demand higher pay increases to compensate for accelerating inflation, heaping pressure on the chancellor to find billions of pounds in extra funding.

The government made recommendations in December for a

2.8% pay rise

Donald Trump’s tariff threats have made the US “a scary place to invest” and may unleash stagflation, the Nobel prize-winning economist

Joseph Stiglitz

“It risks the worst of all possible worlds: a kind of stagflation,” Stiglitz said in an interview with the Guardian.

He argued …