The Guardian Articles

Challenging football heavyweights Manchester United and Manchester City is within the reach of the Manchester Originals, according to the Hundred franchise’s new majority share owner.

Shashwat Goenka, the vice chairman of RPSG, which

bid £80m for a 70% share of the Originals

The family of a young Irish woman raped and murdered in India eight years ago have said justice has finally been achieved after a man was convicted in Goa.

Danielle McLaughlin, from Buncrana in County Donegal, was found dead in a field in Canacona, an area of Goa popular with …

Pressure is growing on the

Royal Society

Musk, who owns the social media platform X, leads the US “department …

German police and prosecutors have said the Afghan suspect in a car ramming in central Munich that injured at least 36 people is believed to have had an “Islamist” motive and will answer to charges of attempted murder.

One day after the

attack on a trade union …

A lot of adjectives have been used to describe the middle-class favourite John Lewis but rock’n’roll is probably not one, until now. The department store chain is teaming up with the indie music retailer Rough Trade to sell records.

In doing so it becomes the latest big high street name …

Downing Street could become a notably less appealing place to work in the coming weeks, with cleaners and catering staff at No 10 scheduled to begin a month-long continuous strike over pay and conditions.

The strike, scheduled to last from 24 February to 25 March in No 10 and the …

A Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective containment shell of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said.

The attack came just hours before the start of the Munich Security Conference, where discussions were dominated by the war in Ukraine …

Monday

Career-death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a long-standing tradition of public figures being felled by loose talk. Where once it was Jane Austen being busted – albeit posthumously – for making bitchy remarks in a letter about her neighbour’s miscarriage, now we enjoy the spectacle …

One month after the

announcement of a ceasefire

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and Hamas are playing a game of nerves every week of the truce. On Saturday, all …

The French government has been accused of making its new language tests for foreigners seeking residency or nationality so hard even its own citizens would fail them.

An impact report on a new immigration law expected to come into force before the end of the year suggested the stricter requirements …