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Ben Chu Why City bankers are warming to Jeremy Corbyn

‘There’s an evolving view among our clients that Corbyn and McDonnell can’t be much worse than the current mob,' one stockbroker told me. The reality is that Labour has a manifestly more City-friendly Brexit position than the Tory party

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What not to do in Prague

A stroll over the Charles Bridge, a trip to the castle, a love lock... stop right there, says Auburn Scallon, and do as the locals do in Prague

INDYBEST Christmas

11 best drones

From fun mini quadcopters to professional-grade models, we went for a test flight

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Cheer up - you’ve never had it so good

What this week's election tells us about Catalonia independence

Most Americans believe Donald Trump’s sexual misconduct accusers

Artist tries to bridge the DMZ with Arabic and Korean poetry

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World news in pictures

World news in pictures

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    Carles Puigdemont gives a thumbs up after the Catalonia Regional Election results

    Rex

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    A white SUV sits in the middle of the road as police and emergency personnel work at the scene of where it ran over pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne.

    AFP/Getty

  • 3/35 20 December 2017

    This combination of pictures shows Syrians covering one eye with their hands, in the rebel-held town of Douma, as part of a campaign in solidarity with a baby boy, Karim Abdallah, who lost an eye, as well as his mother, in government shelling on the nearby town of Hammouria.

    AFP/Getty Images

  • 4/35 19 December 2017

    South Korean and U.S. Marines take part in a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea

    REUTERS

  • 5/35 18 December 2017

    Belgian police officers stand guard outside the trial of Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris, at a courthouse in Brussels, Belgium

    Reuters

  • 6/35 17 December 2017

    Members of the International Space Station expedition 54/55, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (C), NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (R) and Norishige Kanai (L) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) during the send-off ceremony after checking their space suits before the launch of the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan

    Reuters

  • 7/35 16 December 2017

    The former wife of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela (R), and the candidate for the African National Congress presidency and ex-wife of the incumbent South African president, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greet each other as they attend the 54th ANC National Conference at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg on December 16, 2017. Thousands of delegates from South Africa's ANC party gathered on December 16, 2017 for a five-day meeting to elect their new leader in a divisive race seen as a pivotal moment in the country's post-apartheid history. he winner will be well placed to be the next president, but the ANC has lost much popularity since Nelson Mandela led it to power in the euphoric 1994 election that marked the end of white-minority rule.

    AFP/Getty Images

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    Palestinian protesters wave the national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City as demonstrations continue over US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital

    AFP/Getty

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    Hamas supporters take part in a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist movement, in Gaza City

    AFP/Getty Images

  • 10/35 13 December 2017

    Democratic candidate for US Senate Doug Jones thanks supporters as he holds his wife Louise's hand

    AP

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    Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel.

    REUTERS

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    A Palestinian protester kicks a flaming tire during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah

    AFP/Getty

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    Demonstrators set US and Israeli flags on fire during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Istanbul

    REUTERS

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    People gather to watch the bikers' procession during the funeral ceremony in tribute to late French singer Johnny Hallyday in Paris

    EPA

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    A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl stones towards Israeli troops

    REUTERS

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    Firefighters monitor a section of the Thomas Fire along the 101 freeway, north of Ventura, California.

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    Palestinians burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest against the U.S. intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City

    Reuters

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    Former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, flashes a victory sign after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev

    REUTERS

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    A man exercises in a park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India

    REUTERS

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    A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, puts a balloon on the shield of a soldier in a protest while the country is still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

    REUTERS

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    A man dressed as Santa Claus skiis down a mountain during the Saint Nicholas Day at the Alpine ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland

    REUTERS

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    A nurse takes blood for a HIV test for French President Emmanuel Macron as he visits the Delafontaine Hospital on World Aids Day

    Reuters

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    An activist pours gasoline as an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump burns during a protest action against Duterte's plan to set up a Revolutionary Government, along a street in metro Manila, Philippines

    Reuters

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    South Korea's Hyunmoo II missile is fired during an exercise at an undefined location in the east coast of South Korea

    The Defence Ministry/Yonhap via REUTERS

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    People fall as police fire tear gas to try control the crowd trying to force their way into Kasarani Stadium to attend the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi

    REUTERS

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    Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun, 55, rests at the bank of the Naf river after crossing it on an improvised raft to reach Bangladesh, in Teknaf. Two of her sons were killed by gun fire when her village was attacked by Myanmar military, she says

    Reuters

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    Mount Agung volcano is seen spewing smoke and ash in Bali

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    A Pakistani protester throws a tear gas shell back towards police during a clash in Islamabad

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    Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives ahead of his inauguration ceremony to be sworn in as president in Harare

    Reuters

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    Comrades of missing crew members express their grief after the Argentine Navy announced that the sound detected in the missing submarine search is consistent with an explosion

    AFP

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    Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic shouts at the presiding judge during the verdict hearing in his genocide trial, in The Hague, Netherlands

    EPA

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    People and soldiers celebrate after the resignation of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe

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    Israeli security forces carry away an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrator as they disperse a protest against Israeli army conscription in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv

    AFP/Getty

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    Participants crossing the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as they compete in the 2017 Qingdao International Marathon on the Sea in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province

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    Women shout pro-freedom slogans as people carry the remains of Mugees Mir, a suspected militant who according to local media was killed in an encounter with the Indian security forces in Zakura, during his funeral in Srinagar

    Reuters/Danish Ismail

Arsenal 3-3 Liverpool as it happened: Premier League updates

Five things we learned from a thriller at the Emirates
Match report: Liverpool snatch draw after Arsenal blitz

Crane hoping to be the answer to England's all-too familiar problem

The 20-year-old is the latest potential solution to an issue that has been vexing England ever since the sudden retirement of Graeme Swann four years ago

Editorial Catalonia: Spain needs a revised constitution

The more Madrid tries to avoid that scenario, the greater the chances of the vote going towards Catalonian independence

First look as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino reunite for new film

The movie is set for release in 2019

Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have apparently buried the hatchet

But they probably have maps of where they put it

Everything we know so far about Black Mirror season 4

Producer Annabel Jones gives us some insights into the show

David Walliams’ 'Bad Dad' most wanted children's book this Christmas

Little Britain star's novel released last month and has already sold over 60,000 copies 

Brunch on Saturday: Chutney Mary and North African spiced baked eggs

This week, Megan Townsend heads to one of London’s premier Indian restaurants and we take inspiration from Africa at home

Why rail strikes are only getting worse

The Man Who Pays His Way: The driver-only trains dispute definitely won't be over by Christmas

Rebuilding Alexandria: a city that yearns for its lost elegance

Fouad Street is the most potent symbol of the city’s grand history, with its sophisticated villas and antique shops

Exhausted mother makes time-lapse video to document busy 12-hour-day

What it's like to be single at Christmas?

Revealed: the property rich list 2017

‘Lethargic’ Government blamed for lost generation that can't stop work

Cryptocurrency mining bot spreading through Facebook Messenger

'Like many cybercriminal schemes, numbers are crucial — bigger victim pools equate to potentially bigger profits', researchers say

How Apple finally made your wrist talk to your treadmill

Apple announced GymKit in the summer and now, the first examples of smarter gym equipment are finding their way into gyms in Sydney, London and elsewhere

The best video games of 2017

From shooting Nazis to exploring Egypt, 2017 has been an excellent year for games