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However you cut it, this is a one-woman story. Sanae Takaichi has landed a mandate, a landslide so decisive that just a few months...

Pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of national security offences in Hong Kong. The media...

However you cut it, this is a one-woman story. Sanae Takaichi has landed a mandate, a landslide so decisive that just a few months...

Japan’s ultra conservative prime minister is set to seize more power after an exit poll had her securing a big majority in the country’s...

Italian police have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who threw firecrackers, smoke bombs and bottles at them near a Winter Olympics...

A ‘storm train’ of consecutive winds and rains battering Spain and Portugal has already forced 11,000 people to flee their homes.  A man, believed...

Japanese politics is politer and more understated than most. It’s perhaps the reason that Western audiences do not always pay a huge amount of...

Cristiano Ronaldo has missed a second straight game with Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr as he continues his strike. Ronaldo, 41, returned to...

For a largely sedate and elegant spectacle, the Winter Olympics opening ceremony still became an outlet for rage in Milan. Pleas from International Olympic...

From the Skripal poisonings to the invasion of Ukraine to subverting American elections, it is hard to think of a Russian outrage Lieutenant General...

Police are appealing for witnesses after a robbery at a family-run west London jewellers.  Two balaclava-wearing burglars took a sledgehammer to the front window...

One person has died, and three others have been hurt after a double-decker bus crashed into pedestrians in Dublin city centre. Ireland’s justice minister...

A man has died and a girl is missing after heaving flooding hit Spain and Portugal.  Storm Leonardo struck the Iberian Peninsula on Tuesday,...

Even without coming to the Winter Olympics in Italy, Donald Trump and his polarising policies and provocations are dominating, even distracting. Of all the...

We’re about to enter a world without nuclear arms control. The last remaining treaty capping the arsenals of Russia and the US will expire...

What has Vladimir Putin got to do with Jeffrey Epstein? The Russian president’s name appears more than 1,000 times in the latest files. His...

A 13-year-old Australian boy has described battling “massive” waves to swim around four hours to shore and raise the alarm after his family were...

A Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, operated by Air India, has been grounded after reports of a “possible defect” with a fuel control switch on the...

Investigators have raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. French prosecutors said they were widening their...