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The programme for government lacks any hint of the urgency needed on delivery: instead, what we have seen so far is process-driven, box-ticking sloth

It’s hard not to see the political parallels between Cottbus, a city of 100,000 about 75 miles south of Berlin, and Rust Belt swaths of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.

As it turns 100, the illustrious magazine remains rooted in the principles and traditions of print journalism. There is surely a lesson there

A probe to be launched this week aims to pinpoint sites of lunar water, which could help plan to colonise the Earth’s satellite Space engineers are set to launch an unusual mission this week when they send a probe built by UK and US researchers to the…

The administration is dismantling U.S. capacity against foreign interference despite the urgency of the work being done.

US stocks fell Thursday after the world’s largest retailer warned that 2025 would be a rollercoaster ride and said it expected sales to slow this year amid fears that consumers are tapped out.

Another year of robust economic growth is in the books, underscoring how the Biden administration handed President Donald Trump what many consider a solid economy.

Opinion writers discuss issues from vaccines to Medicaid.

“Music so readily transports us from the present to the past, or from what is actual to what is possible.”

Psychologists say that singing, dancing and song preferences play a key role in the viability of romantic relationships “What’s the one thing your readers should do to help them use music to find and catch the partner of their dreams?” asks Patrick…

As firefighters continue to battle raging fires across Los Angeles County, a cut to the Los Angeles Fire Department 2025 budget and its commitment to recruiting a more diverse force have come under at...

When Johanna Harwood left Bray in the 1950s, she was determined to get into the film business - and she succeeded, working on the first two James Bond movies in the early 1960s.

Fierce winds that have supercharged wildfires sweeping parts of Los Angeles finally eased last night, bringing some relief to weary firefighters, but the largest blaze was reported to have shifted dir...

“It is singular, that a thing so obviously useful, … should have been so long overlooked.”

In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their clear benefits to humanity.

YouTube video by Robert Reich

Royal Horticultural Society anticipates low-maintenance edible perennials will become more popular in its new-year forecast Petunias, begonias and other classic bedding plants like busy Lizzies will be out of fashion for 2025, the Royal Horticultural…

Two tankers were hit by a storm in the Kerch strait near Crimea on 15 December, causing one to sink and another to run aground Russia has warned of severe environmental damage from a huge oil spill in the Black Sea caused when two tankers were hit by a…

An extraordinary restoration has swept away the lead dust and made the cathedral vivid, but thankfully not kitsch. Our architecture critic takes a look inside “This cathedral is a happy metaphor of what a nation is and what the world should be,” said…

Donald Trump certainly poses a threat to the Irish economy but there is much the State can do to safeguard our economic welfare

“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”