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Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2026. The nationwide protests started in Tehran's Grand Bazaar against the failing economic policies in late December, which spread to universities and other cities, and included economic slogans, to political and anti-government ones. (Photo by MAHSA / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump briefed on ‘strike options’ as Iranian military tightens grip on defiant protesters

<p>Chief Inspector Helen McCormick from GMP issued a statement to the media on Sunday on the crash in Bolton</p>
Home News

Three teenagers and a taxi driver, 50s, killed in ‘devastating’ head-on crash

<p>President Donald Trump joked on social media Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would become Cuba’s next president </p>
US politics

Trump targets Cuba in Truth Social posts and jokes about who its next president could be

<p>A Russian Oreshnik missile system is seen during a training in Belarus last month</p>
LiveEurope

UN to hold emergency meeting over Russian missile attack

<p>Keir Starmer could send UK troops to Greenland as tensions over the territory’s future mount</p>
UK Politics

Starmer could send military to Greenland as Trump ratchets up rhetoric

<p>After around 1,500 items went missing from the British Museum, a recovery team was set up to find them, with 654 recovered so far. Methods used to track the items include using archive drawings on collections</p>
Home News

Inside the hunt for British Museum’s missing treasures

<p>Yeison Jiménez and the five other people on board the private aircraft all died in the crash in central-eastern Colombia on Saturday, authorities have confirmed</p>
Americas

Colombian singer Yeison Jiménez among six killed in plane crash

<p>Manchester United's abject season continued with defeat at the first hurdle in the FA Cup</p>
Football

Man Utd’s nightmare season reaches new lows with premature FA Cup exit

<p>Former UK ambassador to the US Lord Peter Mandelson (Niall Carson/PA)</p>
UK Politics

Mandelson refuses to apologise over his friendship with Epstein

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<p>Police were called to Egglescliffe Close in Stockton, where where a 49-year-old man was found dead</p>
Crime

Five teenagers arrested on suspicion of murder after man found dead

<p>The organisers of the Nobel Peace Prize have told winner María Corina Machado that it ‘cannot be revoked, shared or transferred’ after she suggested giving Donald Trump her 2025 award</p>
Americas

You can’t give Nobel Peace Prize to someone else, committee tells winner before Trump meeting

Protesters dancing around a bonfire on a street in Tehran (UGC via AP)
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Iran’s regime is facing its biggest threat: here’s why and what’s next

<p>US President Donald Trump vowed to end America’s wars</p>
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Trump promised to end wars, yet the US acts like a rogue superpower

<p>Frey has accused ICE of causing chaos and violence in Minneapolis and re-directing local law enforcement away from protecting residents</p>
LiveAmericas

Anti-ICE protests erupt across US after woman fatally shot by agent

<p>Hasina, a Rohingya refugee girl, sits inside the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025</p>
South Asia

Hope for justice for Myanmar’s Rohingya as court hears genocide case

News

EastEnders’ Charlie Slater star Derek Martin dies aged 92

<p>Fiona described her co-star Rachel, who she accused of being a traitor, as an ‘amazing player’</p>
News

The Traitors’ Fiona makes shock revelation about her exit

<p>Owen Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Michael B Jordan are among the 2026 Golden Globe nominees</p>
LiveNews

Golden Globes 2026: How to watch this year’s ceremony

<p>Clockwise, from top left: Leroy Douglas, Luke Ings, Liam Bennett, Wayne Williams, Abdullahi Suleman, Yusuf Ali, James Lawrence and Thomas White are all trapped in IPP sentences</p>
UK Politics

Britain’s former top judge tells Starmer: Make things right on IPP

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the government planned to ‘deliver one major fiscal event a year’</p>
UK Politics

Claims Reeves’s U-turns cost her £3bn of £22bn headroom in 6 weeks

<p>Lammy said Vance was sympathetic to the UK’s position on the issue</p>
UK Politics

JD Vance backs UK over ‘unacceptable’ sexualised AI images on X

<p>Clockwise, from top left: Leroy Douglas, Luke Ings, Liam Bennett, Wayne Williams, Abdullahi Suleman, Yusuf Ali, James Lawrence and Thomas White are all trapped in IPP sentences</p>
UK Politics

Britain’s former top judge tells Starmer: Make things right on IPP

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the government planned to ‘deliver one major fiscal event a year’</p>
UK Politics

Claims Reeves’s U-turns cost her £3bn of £22bn headroom in 6 weeks

<p>Lammy said Vance was sympathetic to the UK’s position on the issue</p>
UK Politics

JD Vance backs UK over ‘unacceptable’ sexualised AI images on X

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Features

The next big star in UK pop? Absolutely

<p>‘Sex and the City’ was one of the first shows to spotlight the joy of thirtysomething friendships</p>
Lifestyle

Why your 30s are the golden era for female friendships

<p>American A-10s, armed with 30mm gatling guns, pictured ahead of takeover in video shared by CENTCOM</p>
Middle East

Operation Hawkeye Strike: How Donald Trump is taking on ISIS in Syria

<p>Supporters of Colombian president Gustavo Petro take to the streets of Bogota to protest against Donald Trump’s threats</p>
Americas

Trump’s ‘morality’ raises nightmare of ghosts past in Colombia

Features

<p>Couple Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet</p>
Lifestyle

Why does Kylie and Timothée’s relationship still provoke backlash?

Lifestyle

Why does Kylie and Timothée’s relationship still provoke backlash?

<p>Couple Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet</p>
<p>Jessie Buckley in ‘Hamnet’</p>
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Oscar-primed Hamnet isn’t as manipulative as its critics claim

<p>Malachi Kirby: ‘Most of the characters that I’ve played have been traumatised. Weirdly, that is my comfort zone’</p>
Features

Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker came over and held me. I was shaking’

<p>Billy Crudup in ‘High Noon’</p>
Reviews

High Noon is a thoughtful Western with vital moments missing

<p>Unpredictable shark: Myha’la in ‘Industry’</p>
Reviews

Industry season four is unflinching, merciless five-star television

<p>Unpredictable shark: Myha’la in ‘Industry’</p>
Reviews

Industry season four is unflinching, merciless five-star television

<p>Some 8 million Venezuelans have fled their homeland during the dozen years of Nicolas Maduro’s presidency</p>
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Inside the Venezuelan refugee shanties where hope is dangerous

<p>‘Emotionally intense’: Jenny Hollingworth, aka Jenny on Holiday, releases her new solo record ‘Quicksand Heart’</p>
Features

Let’s Eat Grandma’s Jenny Hollingworth on her shimmering new album

Premium

<p>‘If you want no harm, you don’t drink anything,’ says expert Professor David Nutt</p>
Fitness and wellbeing

How to tweak drinking habits to reduce damaging effects

Fitness and wellbeing

How to tweak drinking habits to reduce damaging effects

<p>‘If you want no harm, you don’t drink anything,’ says expert Professor David Nutt</p>
<p>Venturers gather for the end-of-day expert debrief on the day’s discoveries</p>
England

How an archaeology holiday can unearth real calm and connection

<p>‘Nit Blitz’: Laura (Emily Lloyd-Sani) helping to stop the spread of nits as it sweeps the school in BBC’s ‘Motherland’ in 2021</p>
Voices

Am I being scammed by Big Nits?

<p>Donald Trump and administration officials have repeatedly stressed that military operations to seize Greenland are still on the table</p>
US politics

Why Trump wants Greenland – and how his plan could unfold

<p>A comforting curry that proves January cooking doesn’t have to be dull</p>
Recipes

Healthy January recipes from Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and more

<p>A comforting curry that proves January cooking doesn’t have to be dull</p>
Recipes

Healthy January recipes from Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and more

<p>Sylvie, the boss in Emily in Paris played by Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, typifies the kind of no-nonsense attitude displayed by many older Gen X workers </p>
Lifestyle

How Generation X became the backbone of the workplace

<p>US president Donald Trump said the only constraint to his powers is ‘my own morality, my own mind […] I don’t need international law’</p>
Emir Gürbüz

If the only thing stopping him is his own mind, just how far will Donald Trump go?

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<p>The secretary attempted to blame Democrats and the media for prejudging the officer’s guilt, but had no response when questioned whether the administration’s stalwart defense of the officer’s actions would harm future investigations. </p>
News

Noem caught changing her story on Minneapolis ICE shooting

News

Noem caught changing her story on Minneapolis ICE shooting

<p>The secretary attempted to blame Democrats and the media for prejudging the officer’s guilt, but had no response when questioned whether the administration’s stalwart defense of the officer’s actions would harm future investigations. </p>
<p>In videos circulating on local media, shouts of “the runway is run out” can be heard as the aircraft takes off, with images showing the later wreckage of the plane on fire.</p>
News

Colombian singer among six killed in plane crash

<p>Drake Maye goes head to head with Justin Herbert in Foxborough</p>
Sport

NFL playoff schedule today: Who is playing and where to watch

<p>Trump joked on social media Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio would become Cuba’s next president </p>
News

Trump issues stern warning to Cuba

<p>Born in east London in 1933, Martin worked in several professions before transitioning to acting at the age of 29.</p>
Culture

EastEnders star dies aged 92

<p>Born in east London in 1933, Martin worked in several professions before transitioning to acting at the age of 29.</p>
Culture

EastEnders star dies aged 92

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Millions warned of Instagram password reset emails

<p>The monkeys were spotted near O’Fallon Park in northern St. Louis.</p>
News

Monkeys roaming freely in St. Louis and authorities are clueless

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<p>David Carrick, who received 37 life sentences, was able to join the Met Police despite a history of allegations</p>
Voices

Message to the Met: predators still serve on your force, lying low

Voices

Message to the Met: predators still serve on your force, lying low

<p>David Carrick, who received 37 life sentences, was able to join the Met Police despite a history of allegations</p>
<p>How do we teach critical thinking to young children who dismiss history as fake?</p>
Voices

What ‘AI slop’ is really doing to distrusting Gen Alpha kids

<p>Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</p>
Voices

This Iranian uprising could be as pivotal as the French Revolution

<p>Wayne Williams, Leroy Douglas, Abdullahi Suleman, Shaun Anton Lloyd and Joshua McRae are just some of those given IPP sentences</p>
The Independent View

Life in prison for stealing a phone? End this outrage, prime minister

<p>The prime minister’s plan to ease the ‘cost of living’ is a familiar policy </p>
Voices

Keir Starmer’s plan for 2026 looks familiar – and risky

<p>The prime minister’s plan to ease the ‘cost of living’ is a familiar policy </p>
Voices

Keir Starmer’s plan for 2026 looks familiar – and risky

<p>A poster mourning Renee Nicole Good is pasted to a light pole near the scene of her shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota</p>
Voices

Poets are dreamers and idealists: It’s what makes them so dangerous

<p>A collage of prisoners jailed using IPP</p>
Voices

Indefinite jail terms are indefensible – why are thousands trapped?

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Minneapolis ICE shooting live: Mayor says there’s ‘deep mistrust’ about investigation

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Mandelson refuses to apologise to victims over his friendship with Epstein

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Iran protests latest: Trump briefed on ‘strike options’ as military tightens grip

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Ukraine war latest: UN to hold emergency meeting over Russian Oreshnik missile attack

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Sport

<p>Gabriel Martinelli scored a hat-trick for Arsenal</p>
Football

Martinelli banishes bad headlines in easy Arsenal FA Cup win

Portsmouth 1-4 Arsenal: Martinelli grabbed his first senior hat-trick just days after being criticised for his actions when Liverpool star Conor Bradley was down injured

<p>Dalton Smith knocked out Subriel Matias to win the WBC super-lightweight belt in New York</p>
Boxing

Smith’s odds-defying world title win has huge significance

<p>Marc Guehi could be heading to Arsenal</p>
LiveFootball

Transfer news live: Arsenal’s Guehi boost, Barca want to keep Rashford

<p>Ben Stokes speaks to TNT Sports pundits Justin Langer and Graeme Swann</p>
Cricket

Former England players condemn Stokes and Bazball ‘cult’ after Ashes loss

Football

Slot makes FA Cup pledge ahead of Liverpool’s clash against Barnsley

<p>Liverpool’s Conor Bradley (left) was carried off on a stretcher (PA)</p>
Football

Liverpool’s Bradley out for the season with knee injury

<p>Jannik Sinner greets a fan during the match against Carlos Alcaraz</p>
Tennis

Sinner hands racket to young fan in straight-sets defeat by Alcaraz

<p>Macclesfield’s Josh Kay celebrates with fans on the pitch after the sixth-tier club made FA Cup history by beating Crystal Palace</p>
Football

Macclesfield stun holders Palace in one of the greatest FA Cup shocks

Travel

<p>A person walks past a digital display showing a temperature of minus 33 degrees Celsius (91 Fahrenheit) in Ylläs, Finland, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (Satu Renko/Lehtikuva via AP)</p>
News & Advice

Thousands of tourists stranded as snow and deep freeze cancels flights

News & Advice

Thousands of tourists stranded as snow and deep freeze cancels flights

<p>A person walks past a digital display showing a temperature of minus 33 degrees Celsius (91 Fahrenheit) in Ylläs, Finland, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (Satu Renko/Lehtikuva via AP)</p>
<p>States such as Idaho, Montana and New Mexico offer ski experiences where there’s room to breathe, including Brundage Mountain Resort in Idaho</p>
North America

Eight Rockies ski resorts where you can dodge the lift lines

<p>The pothole map of England </p>
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New site allows drivers to see how badly their council is on potholes

<p>Watch to find out more about how to visit Cadiz & Costa de la Luz</p>
Lifestyle

Explore the majesty of Cádiz and the Costa de la Luz

<p>'Hard, but hugely rewarding' – Michael Palin in Venezuela</p>
News & Advice

Venezuela: when will its wonders be open to travellers once again?

<p>'Hard, but hugely rewarding' – Michael Palin in Venezuela</p>
News & Advice

Venezuela: when will its wonders be open to travellers once again?

<p>Minreet felt less worried during her solo trip </p>
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I travelled to the Caribbean to soothe my midlife loneliness

<p>Choquequirao is comparatively unknown Inca site </p>
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I trekked through the Andes to a crowd-free Inca city

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<p>Paddy McGuinness shows off incredible weight loss transformation</p>
Lifestyle

Paddy McGuinness unveils dramatic fitness transformation

Lifestyle

Paddy McGuinness unveils dramatic fitness transformation

<p>Paddy McGuinness shows off incredible weight loss transformation</p>
Culture

Coronation Street legend addresses weight loss jab rumours

Culture

Robbie Williams says 13-year-old daughter is ‘desperate to be famous’

<p>Police race through burning building to rescue trapped cows</p>
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Police race through burning building to rescue trapped cows

<p>Iran parliament speaker threatens ‘delusional’ Trump with retaliation if US strikes over protests</p>
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Iran parliament speaker threatens ‘delusional’ Trump

<p>Iran parliament speaker threatens ‘delusional’ Trump with retaliation if US strikes over protests</p>
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Iran parliament speaker threatens ‘delusional’ Trump

<p>Davina McCall under goes huge transformation into 'trophy wife' for Masked Singer</p>
Culture

Davina McCall under goes huge Masked Singer transformation

<p>Video shows singer Yeison Jimenez and friend on plane before deadly crash</p>
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Video shows singer Yeison Jimenez on plane before fatal crash

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<p>The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7X boasts a Snapdragon X2 Elite chip </p>
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<p>The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7X boasts a Snapdragon X2 Elite chip </p>
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<p>The loafers hail from Duke + Dexter </p>
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<p>Project Ava will launch with five characters later this year </p>
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Razer announces new AI companion – it’s as creepy as it sounds

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Love Island: All Stars postponed as wildfires threaten South Africa filming location

Love Island: All Stars postponed as wildfires threaten South Africa filming location

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