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The challenges facing Ahmed al-Sharaa’s new government are numerous, complex and daunting. But the west must not attempt to dictate events

The laid-back 17-year-old who brought millions of young fans to darts has been shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award

Despite a clever comms strategy, there are significant credibility issues around the assumptions on which the cost estimates are based

I’ve seen full bags tied to low-hanging branches and kids’ play equipment. It’s all deeply weird

Only the disgraced prince would be daft enough to invite an alleged spy for China to his 60th birthday party

Briana Boston had reportedly just had a medical claim denied when she said to the person on the phone: ‘Delay, deny, depose’

The Assad family’s brutal half-century reign has just ended and the US, Israel and Turkey are already vying for influence

It wasn’t always clear why our buzz-cut parents felt so threatened by our cascading locks – but guys like me needed to express ourselves

Query: which of the uncle-nephew pair that is Prince Andrew and Prince Harry makes the heart sink faster and sooner? The very words “close confidant of the Duke of York” on the news this morning made a nation think, “uh-oh” before we even learned that the confidant in question was…

Gukesh, a teenager from Chennai, is the youngest chess world champion. Here’s how he got there.

For the first time today Rachel Reeves “owned” yet another worryingly below par set of economic figures.