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The traditional dividing lines have returned to Westminster. In Ireland, things look rather different

Retailer’s Irish arm increased its turnover last year by 4.6% to €3.75bn

British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, who has been serving as president of the Feature Narrative Competition jury at the ninth edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival this week, tells Variety she prefers to know as little as possible about a film before watching it, “not even a synopsis of the story.” “I prefer to go […]

Britain and France agreed in July 2025 to reinforce cooperation over their nuclear arsenals in response to growing threats to Europe and uncertainty over their US ally.  

Katie Boulter reclaims the British number one ranking after fighting back to beat Antonia Ruzic in three sets in the quarter-finals of the Japan Open.

Lebanese and British troops have concluded a three-week joint exercise in Lebanon aimed at enhancing co-operation between the two militaries. Operation Pegasus Cedar 2026 was held at a pivotal time for the Lebanese Armed Forces, which have been given the formidable challenge of disarming Iran-backed Hezbollah and extending state control across the country. T

Next summer’s men’s and women’s race will start in Edinburgh and Yorkshire respectively

More than four years after his release from an Iranian jail, Anoosheh Ashoori still wakes up with nightmares from the “dark, dark moments” he experienced there. Mr Ashoori, 72, was speaking on a dreary wet day outside the UK Parliament. The former inmate of Tehran's most notorious prison was out on the street to call on the UK government to do more to releas

Oman's Sultan Haitham entered St George’s Hall at Windsor Castle for a state banquet on Tuesday wearing a black velvet bisht with heavily embroidered golden borders at the collar, along the front buttons and at the seams. The striped purple and blue turban made of fine cashmere closely matched the attire worn by his predecessor, the late Sultan Qaboos on his

UK's deployment of jets to defend Saudi Arabia is the latest chapter in a relationship older than the kingdom itself.

Al Jazeera exposes UK far right's links to criminal underworld.

Police have been investigating a suspected terror plot on September 27 against the U.S.-run base in western England.

<p>As Andy Burnham talks up closer alignment with the EU and a poll suggests half in UK would rejoin, the B-word is back on the agenda</p><p>In February 2016, days after David Cameron announced the UK would hold a referendum on leaving the EU, he told workers in Slough not to imagine they could change their minds a few years down the line if they did not lik