Justin Hood has become the latest Alexandra Palace cult hero after his incredible run to the quarter-finals and has got the crowd on side with his dream to open a Chinese takeaway.
The UAE says it’s withdrawing all ‘counterterrorism’ units from Yemen after a Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes.
Luke Humphries set up a quarter-final showdown with Gian van Veen at the World Darts Championship after beating Kevin Doets, as Gary Anderson thrashed Michael van Gerwen at the Alexandra Palace.
The Trump administration is forging bilateral deals with countries hit by widespread cuts to US foreign aid.
Newcastle recorded just a second away win in their last 13 Premier League games with a 3-1 victory at Burnley.
The move was criticised by foreign ministers from from 10 countries including the UK, who said the new rules were "restrictive" and "unacceptable".
Palestinians climbed onto a truck carrying aid near Gaza City in August.
Aid groups facing bans include MSF and Oxfam as European countries sound the alarm over dire humanitarian situation.
This is a tragic story. When faced with a situation like this, it is incredible how the boxing community comes together.
Tatiana Schlossberg in 2019. After learning of her cancer diagnosis, she wrote, “I did not — could not — believe that they were talking about me.”
Government sources say social media posts by British-Egyptian activist do not meet legal bar for such sanction The Home Office will not strip the British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his...
Policymakers sparred over decision to cut interest rates earlier in December
Ella Toone admits she was beyond surprised to be named in the New Year Honours List.
Elsewhere in Group C, Tanzania scrape through to the knockout stages for the first time after 1-1 draw with Tunisia.
According to Dealroom’s European Spinout Report 2025, 76 European deep tech and life sciences spinouts have either reached $1 billion valuations, $100 million in revenue, or both.
As Brazil heads toward elections in 2026, millions live in fear. Nearly one in five Brazilians is affected by gangs.
A photo released by Iranian state media shows closed shops after protests in Tehran on Tuesday.
Two of the main sticking points involve territory and the fate of Europe's biggest nuclear plant, which is currently occupied by Russia.
After a tumultuous year, venture investors are still optimistic about climate tech's long term prospects, especially as data centers continue to drive demand for electricity, manufacturing, and mat...
Popular English debutant Justin Hood produces a finishing masterclass to eliminate 11th seed Josh Rock and reach the PDC World Championship quarter-finals.
Carmen de Lavallade in 2018. She continued to dance well into her 80s, long past the time most performers have retired.
Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered this galaxy cluster...
Justin Hood produced one of the greatest performances at the World Darts Championship by hitting 11 consecutive doubles without missing on his way to a 4-0 win over Josh Rock in the last 16.
Texas Tech quarterback Behren Morton is out of a walking boot and close to 100% healthy after playing through a hairline fracture for much of the season.
The protests began on Sunday after shopkeepers in Tehran staged a strike when the Iranian rial hit a record low against the US dollar.
Exclusive: In letter declining proposed award, Tressa Burke, CEO of Glasgow Disability Alliance, accused government of ‘fuelling hatred’The head of one of Scotland’s foremost disability rights char...
AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice
A fan group says "alarm bells should be ringing at Fifa" at England fans not taking up their full allocation for the World Cup final and semi-final.
US Central Command says military campaign follows killing of US soldiers, 'massive strikes' across central Syria.
US stock valuations are higher than before 1929 Wall Street crash but the dominance of a single sector has precedents
Enterprises have been experimenting with AI tools for a few years. Investors predict they will start to pick winners in 2026.
US president says strike in Venezuela targeted a dock allegedly used to load boats with narcotics.
Javier Zanetti lived out his dreams as a player, lifting 16 trophies in an Inter Milan career that spanned a record 858 appearances, winning 145 caps for Argentina, and earning a reputation as one...
Spanish woman’s attempted restoration of church artwork was widely mocked but became lucrative tourist attractionCecilia Giménez, the woman who achieved unwanted international fame for her botched...
With the winter window opening on 1 January, BBC Sport correspondents assess the transfer needs of the Championship's 24 clubs.
TikTok, YouTube and Facebook are down, as the nation awaits the final result from the presidential poll.
Moment of maximum danger will come in May’s local and regional elections and PM is already plotting his comebackKeir Starmer will begin his second full year in Downing Street as one of the least po...
Kremlin says alleged drone attack on presidential residence - called a fabrication by Kyiv - will affect peace talks.
With recent additions of players with professional experience to college teams, Arkansas coach John Calipari said Monday that without new rules, the sport will lose high school players.
Ulster back row Juarno Augustus is ruled out for "a number of weeks" with an ankle ligament injury sustained in the win over Connacht.
Labour urges Conservative leader to reveal whether she knew David Wolfson was to represent Russian oligarch in legal case Kemi Badenoch is under pressure to act on the revelations that her shadow a...
When developers began circling Espíritu Santo island in the 1990s, a private conservation effort saw them off. But today the Unesco site faces a new threat: mass tourismOn a clear day over the Sea...
Rusty plays a vengeful strip club owner, Rebel Wilson makes her directorial debut, plus new films starring Olivia Colman, Willem Dafoe and Tom HiddlestonGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA...
Rafqa Touma found herself in a binge-slump reading cycle from following recommendations on social media. Could booksellers in actual bookshops help?“I’ve read through most of the longlist for the B...
Complaint filed by Amy Louise Taylor in US court accuses Jamie Nelson of selling photos taken for Vogue magazine as ‘fine art prints’ without her permissionGet our breaking news email, free app or...
The final week of the NFL season is here with the final play-off spots, both top seedings and four division titles to be decided, with three huge head-to-head deciders.
US president says he would back attacks if Tehran rebuilds nuclear or missile programmes.
The NFL playoffs begin on Jan. 10 with three full rounds before Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8. Here is the full schedule and the projected bracket.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy denies that Kyiv attacked the Novgorod residence of Russian President Putin.
Trump says Israel has complied with the Gaza ceasefire as he urges Netanyahu to move to phase two.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa has unveiled Syria’s revamped currency in Damascus.
Records from 2004 show Tony Blair saying his government had 'lanced the boil of separatism'.
Cecilia Giménez, an amateur painter, at her home in Borja, Spain, in 2014.
When the people of Waddington teamed up to broadcast self-written soap operas, horoscopes and magic tricks, little did they know it would be the most successful channel in the world – despite the c...
It’s a ridiculous time to be male – and that’s good news for a new genre of social media comedy poking fun at the shifting notions of masculinity“I’m gonna miss toxic masculinity,” says the comedia...
Analysts say Federal Reserve rate cuts will push the US currency lower in 2026
England's batters have taken quite the battering after numerous collapses contributed to a fourth successive Ashes series defeat in Australia.
Heavy rain has flooded displacement camps in Gaza, submerging tents and the belongings of families in mud and water.
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains why world number one Luke Littler has been booed at the PDC World Darts Championship.
Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing a felony charge of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge of assault from an incident on Dec. 2.
While the ceasefire has held since Saturday, Thailand says Cambodia violated deal with drone flights over the border.
A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic r...
Rhian Wilkinson hopes Jess Fishlock will join Wales' staff for the start of World Cup qualifying in March.
The final "MNF" of the season featured two of the top three players rostered by 2025 fantasy football champions.
President Donald Trump, right, with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday. The two leaders held talks about ending the war in Ukraine.
Scarlets welcome back captain Josh Macleod for the United Rugby Championship (URC) Welsh derby against Dragons at Rodney Parade on New Year's Day.
I’m fascinated by Maundy Gregory, who sold honours for Lloyd George. He wouldn’t be tolerated today, but don’t assume our system is flawlessAnd so the new year honours list is out. The people – som...
A screening tour, a New Year’s re-release, a documentary, an incoming director’s cut … will we ever be rid of this historic misfire?At first, it appeared to end with a whimper. After decades of tal...
LIV Golf will end the year with no decision whether the Official World Golf Ranking will approve the 54-man league to receive ranking points like golf's other tours around the world.
Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over...
A former political prisoner is facing calls for deportation while war criminals are welcomed with opened arms.
Meta says 'autonomous' AI agent will help improve the lives of billions following rare deal amid US-China tech rivalry.
Dry and warm 2025 spring gave glimmer of hope for threatened wild birds but many remain in long-term declineThe warmest and sunniest spring on record this year led to an increase in the breeding of...
Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia has died at the age of 79 after a prolonged illness.
Demonstrations sweep Somalia as the government seeks global diplomatic support.
A petition for a national homage to Brigitte Bardot - who died on Sunday - attracts more than 23,000 signatures.
Boxing expert Steve Bunce says he can't imagine the "type of condition" Anthony Joshua is in following a crash that killed two of his close friends and team members. Sina Ghami and Latif Ayodele di...
Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its atrocities during the Syrian civil war.
BBC Radio 5 Live's boxing analyst Steve Bunce on the fatal car accident that killed two of Anthony Joshua's close friends.
Liverpool set-piece coach Aaron Briggs has left the club midway through a season in which the Reds have the joint-worst set-play record in Europe's big five leagues.
General secretary of party’s main union backer says it must change course or risk sowing seeds of its own destructionUnite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, has told the government it must do mor...
Great Britain's Olympic and Paralympic teams are going to need to harness AI and work together more closely in order to continue their success at recent Games, UK Sport chairman Nick Webborn says.
Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives.
Three words will dominate the talk around international football across the island of Ireland in 2026 - the World Cup.
President Trump has become a common theme in races around the world. Our Canada bureau chief, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, gives a rundown of some of the results.
The K-pop group NewJeans in Seoul last year.
China's military exercises cover more area than ever before and simulate a blockade of key Taiwanese ports.
From Carrie Bradshaw cleaning up mess in And Just Like That to Kim Kardashian’s zero-star clanger and Bonnie Blue’s sexcapades, here are the biggest duds of 2025Where to begin with the love/hate Se...
A new randomized trial from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center reveals that magnesium may be the missing key to keeping vitamin D levels in balance. The study found that magnesium raised vitamin D in...
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Yemen’s presidential council, backed by Saudi Arabia, says Emirati-backed forces must leave Yemen within 24 hours.
Eight more tournament potentials: Could the ACC's era of mediocrity end this season?
From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindsetBetween the slash-and-burn US go...
Trainer Karl Burke paid tribute to Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum following the leading owner and breeder’s death on Monday.
Jessica Carmichael’s coming-of-age YA novel is set during the huge annual diasporic return to west Africa, which ‘changed the trajectory’ of her lifeEach December, hundreds of thousands of diaspora...
Set in a colonial city after the first world war, this story of a battle of wills between an elderly widow and her young servant is deftly toldThe second novel by South African author Nadia Davids,...
How do you photograph darkness? A question Sarah Lee considers with her work as the nights draw in: ‘I’ve always been drawn to photographing the darkness as the winter months draw in after the cloc...
Kazuyoshi Miura, who turns 59 in February and is the world's oldest professional footballer, has signed a loan deal until June with Fukushima United.
This terrifying documentary about the Utah life coach convicted of extreme child abuse feels supremely grubby. How about a new year’s resolution not to watch – or make – anything this grim ever aga...
For all the talk of coups, this much is clear: without a strong vision, Labour will face a fresh crisis of legitimacyWill he still be there to see in the next new year? Noise about Keir Starmer’s d...
Disillusioned by his early EDM success, Alex Young bought hardware, embraced UK dance culture – and reinvented himselfFrom Washington, DCRecommended if you like Floating Points, Jon Hopkins, Joy Or...
Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed to take action to protect purchasing power of Iranians as currency plummets to record lows.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Olympic gold medallists Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean say it's "amazing" to receive a Damehood and Knighthood in the 2025 New Year Honours.
All UAE forces must leave Yemen within 24 hours, the Presidential Leadership Council says.
Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic suffers a "gut-wrenching" knee injury as the Denver Nuggets lose 147-123 at the Miami Heat.
From playoff thrillers to epic individual achievements, these are the moments we'll remember for decades to come.
The January transfer window is about to open soon, so let's look at which Premier League teams need to make moves to improve for the rest of the season.
Jofra Archer is named in England’s squad for the T20 World Cup despite missing the last two Ashes Tests.
While NBA players rock sneakers of various colors, the NFL has strict rules, and violators can incur hefty fines.
This Nordic city and digital hub is having its moment in the (midnight) sun, offering cultural, arty events and pleasingly eclectic sillinessA floating community sauna on frozen Lake Oulu seemed as...
Archives reveal options considered by Tony Blair’s government for dealing with Zimbabwean dictator in 2004The Foreign Office cautioned against UK military intervention to overthrow the former Zimba...
The Netherlands’ guttersnipe answer to French chanson and German schlager is as popular as ever – but has it lost its roots as the defiant voice of the working class? Our writer sways along at the...
A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave tradeOver the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 mi...
Journalist Don Ng’s debut feature raises interesting questions about the asylum experience – but his film is too sentimental and superficial to truly answer themThis is a film made with the best of...
'Champagne' Charlie Manby takes on Gian van Veen at the World Darts Championship on Tuesday with a quarter-final spot on the line.
Jofra Archer has been included in England's provisional T20 World Cup squad after his Ashes-ending injury, with fellow fast bowler Josh Tongue also named in a 15-player group for February and March...
Joey McGuire has his team in the quarterfinals of the CFP, but he was a relative unknown when he was hired.
We break down Ohio State-Miami, Texas Tech-Oregon, Indiana-Alabama and Georgia-Ole Miss.
Liverpool are interested in signing Juventus star Kenan Yildiz as Mohamed Salah replacement. Transfer Talk has the latest news and rumors.
The 27-year-old defenseman may be the Capitals' MVP to this point. Here's how he leveled up in 2025-26.
Veteran coach Chip Kelly, who was fired as Raiders offensive coordinator in November, is joining Northwestern as its new OC, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Tuesday.
Let's update our NFL Power Rankings one more time ahead of Week 18. We also picked out lessons for all 32 teams in 2025.
In today’s newsletter: Covering everything from Donald Trump to AI, and Gaza to Ukraine, award-winning cartoonist and illustrator Ben Jennings shares his favourite caricatures of 2025, and we share...
The coalition carried out a strike at Yemen’s Mukalla port after accusing foreign-backed vessels of delivering weapons.
His wife Anne watches the newly discovered tapes for the first time. Plus: Joe Wilkinson’s family sitcom. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5“It’s funny how the taxman always writes to...
The Chinese military fired a rocket on Tuesday from Pingtan, an island in the eastern province of Fujian that is China’s closest point to Taiwan.
Combination of concern about economy and household cost pressures will continue to limit spending, report suggestsUK consumers are reluctant to spend going into 2026 despite feeling almost as secur...
Family members carry the burden and costs of caring for America's aging population. Federal policy change is slow to come but a new movement and state actions are building momentum.
Tributes pour in from around the world as Bangladesh mourns Khaleda Zia.
Meta says it'll keep Manus running independently while weaving its agents into Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, where Meta's own chatbot, Meta AI, is already available to users.
Hove, East Sussex: I’ve had to create a halfway house for him, between the rescue centre and the wild. Only, he’s named after an escapologist for a reasonIn the dark, a three-legged hedgehog trundl...
From a jewel heist to crumbling galleries, it’s been a dire year for the world’s most visited museum. At least France has woken up to its predicament Long before Versailles dazzled the world, the L...
Then PM wrote on note from aide in 2005 that case ‘must not’ be dealt with in civil court, archives revealTony Blair put pressure on officials to ensure that British soldiers accused of beating an...
Entrepreneurs are more optimistic than the headlines about the UK’s economic potential
So-called continuation vehicles set to account for a fifth of sales by the sector in 2025
The US president’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs spooked markets but the global trading system has proved to be resilient
The Legal Accountability Project complaint, which has not been previously reported, states that it is based on conversations with multiple former law clerks.
These are the key developments from day 1,405 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Cecilia Giménez's effort to restore the painting Ecce Homo earned the artwork the nickname "Monkey Christ".
Fergal Keane has met thousands of traumatised children while reporting on conflicts. Here, he researches the long-term effect on them - and what, if anything, can help.
The country's first female prime minister governed in periods of violent unrest and economic hardship.
US hit a dock in Venezuela where boats are loaded with drugs, Trump says, as Pentagon carries out another deadly strike.
Khaleda Zia in 2014.
Zia became the country's first female leader in 1991 after its first democratic election in 20 years.
Bangladesh's first female prime minister dies after a prolonged illness in Dhaka, her party says.
More than 30 new laws have been created this year, including these lesser-known bits of legislation.
Meet Barry Webb and his award-winning images of the tiny world of slime mould.
Naan, a leavened flatbread, was once the food of nobility but is now a global culinary delight.
Post-election violence in Tanzania and more coups were part of a turbulent 12 months on the continent.
A steep rise in soldiers' obituaries is documented by the BBC as part of its work in counting Russian war losses.
Tiger Woods turned 50 on Tuesday, making the 15-time major championship winner eligible to compete on the PGA Tour Champions circuit once he recovers from his latest health setbacks.
Former PM’s team suggested initial less-politicised drafts seemed patronising and appealed to ‘fuddy-duddy Britain’Brown’s allies could wreck Labour’s 2005 election hopes, Mandelson warnedTony Blai...
Tony Blair was told that tensions with his then chancellor would need to be carefully managed, files reveal‘Too complacent’: how Blair’s advisers misjudged his disastrous WI speechPeter Mandelson w...
Push to join the European single currency stoked tension between Labour PM and chancellor in 2003
How four years of war have remade society.