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The speaker of Sweden’s parliament asked opposition leader and ex-premier Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats to form a new government after Sunday’s centre-left election victory. Prime Minister ...

One month into the new Premier League season, excuses about bedding-in processes and newly assembled squads needing time to gel are wearing thin and for Manchester United there is an ...

At least 16 people were killed and 57 wounded after a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden car into a police facility in northwest Pakistan on Friday as officers and their families were ...

Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election which President Vladimir Putin has said will show that millions of people back his army fighting in Ukraine, even though ...

Nestle said on Friday it was weighing all options to protect its rights after the Kremlin’s decision to take control of the Swiss food maker’s Russian business, the ...

Three students were killed in a school shooting in the southern Philippines on Friday, including a 16-year-old suspected gunman who turned the gun on himself, provincial officials said. Eight others ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday he would not deploy military assets to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into conflict, but ...

At least 112,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen within the last two weeks as fighting continues along the country’s west coast amid a renewed ​conflict, while nearly 3,000 have fled ...

Indonesian divers retrieved three bodies from a passenger ship that capsized and sank in the Java Sea, although more than 100 passengers remain missing, a Navy official told Reuters on Friday. ...

Residents of a city in central Nigeria took to the streets to protest overnight after 37 detainees were found dead in the custody of a paramilitary force that had raided suspected ...

Prominent Australian rowing figures have criticised the approval of Rockhampton’s crocodile-inhabited Fitzroy River as the venue for the sport at the Brisbane Olympics, arguing the course will require extensive ...

finance minister John Healey will urge his counterparts in the European Union not to exclude Britain from the bloc’s “Made in Europe” industrial policy at a meeting in Dublin ...

Juventus hammered Dutch side NEC Nijmegen 5-0 at home with help from two errors by goalkeeper Nikolas Polster and Olympique de Marseille of France lost 4-1 away to Besiktas as ...

Positivity is not the easiest commodity when your team has lost all four Premier League games without scoring a goal but it remains the mantra for Coventry City manager Frank ...

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are no strangers to mixing football and showbusiness, and the Wrexham co-owners did both in their latest advertisement for internet browser Firefox, playfully lampooning Southampton’...

Harry Kane described the 2025-26 campaign as the best season of his life after scoring 73 goals for Bayern Munich and England, and while his performances have made him a leading ...

Jos Buttler became the first batsman to score 15,000 career T20 runs and Liam Dawson took a three-wicket haul as a dominant England beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in Cardiff ...

Marco Balich, the creator of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic cauldrons, has appealed to public and private institutions to fund their reactivation, stressing the emotional bond they created with residents and ...

Britain’s King Charles sounded “like a lottery winner” after the death of his late first wife Diana, her brother writes in his forthcoming book, new extracts of which were ...

Elfyn Evans’s chances of becoming Britain’s third world rally champion were boosted on Thursday after the final round of the season in Saudi Arabia was dropped due to ...

Asian Games organisers could have avoided accommodation issues by building an Athletes’ Village but doing so would have left them with a white elephant after the curtain comes down on ...

Two women whose images as girls were found in pornography seized from Jeffrey Epstein filed a class action lawsuit seeking damages from the late sex offender’s estate for individuals ...

England FA chair and Fifa vice-president Debbie Hewitt has written to Fifa President Gianni Infantino seeking the release of material related to his abandoned World Cup investment plan and the ...

Paris prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving smart glasses, while French data protection authorities have received complaints from businesses, as countries around the world grapple ...