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Newcastle United’s run to the League Cup quarter-finals in which they host Brentford on Wednesday has the team and supporters dreaming again of ending one of the longest trophy-droughts ...

Arne Slot will not be on the touchline during Liverpool’s League Cup quarter-final clash with Southampton, but the Dutch manager on Tuesday said he does not expect his ban ...

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy prime minister, faces a possible six-year prison term if a court finds him guilty on Friday of kidnapping a boat full of migrants who were ...

Russia said on Wednesday it had detained a citizen of Uzbekistan who had confessed to planting a bomb which killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillovin Moscow a day earlier on the ...

President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster, the day after he stepped up his legal threats against news outlets ...

An agreement to halt the 14-month-old war in Gaza and free hostages held in the Palestinian enclave could be signed in the coming days with talks in Cairo making progress, ...

The Financial Conduct Authority has outlined proposals for a new platform to enable trading in shares of privately-owned firms under plans to invigorate Britain’s lacklustre capital markets and encourage ...

Britain’s competition regulator cleared Carlsberg’s (CARLb.CO) deal with soft drinks maker Britvic (BVIC.L) on Tuesday, saying it would not refer the $4.23 billion transaction for an in-depth ...

German companies feel pessimistic about the new year, with only 12.6 per cent expecting business conditions to improve in 2025, according to a poll by the Ifo institute of some 8,000 firms. “No ...

Authorities in Mayotte struggled on Tuesday to stop hunger, disease and lawlessness from spreading in the French overseas territory after the weekend’s devastating cyclone, while Mozambique reported dozens of ...

Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said his mother was in hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating a case of attempted homicide. Kara-Murza said suspicions that ...

Germany’s main political parties presented their competing plans on Tuesday for lifting Europe’s largest economy out of the doldrums as campaigning kicked off for asnap election on Feb. 23. ...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta believes winning the League Cup can further fuel his side’s push for the Premier League crown, as they prepare to host Crystal Palace in the ...

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur’s appeal against the length of his seven game suspension has been dismissed, the Football Association said on Tuesday. The Uruguayan was banned for making ...

The father and stepmother of Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl who was found dead in her home in Britain, were on Tuesday jailed for 40 and 33 years respectively for her murder ...

By Kate AbnettEuropean Union plans for a new renewable energy goal hit early resistance on Monday from pro-nuclear governments, who indicated they would not back a goal that excludes atomic ...

By Gilles Guillaume and Alessandro ParodiEuropean automakers are raising prices of petrol cars and readying discounts on electric vehicles as they brace for yet another challenge – tougher emissions rules that ...

A heron took flight in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, stretching its wings and soaring over a river after veterinarians saved it from near-certain death by removing a plastic cup ...

British pay rose by more than expected in the three months to October, official data showed on Tuesday, prompting investors to further rein in bets on Bank of England interest ...

Russian prosecutors have demanded prison terms of nearly six years each for three lawyers who represented Alexei Navalny, an ally of the late opposition leader said on Tuesday. Vadim Kobzev, ...

Donald Trump lost a bid to overturn his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling ...

Chelsea have confirmed that forward Mykhailo Mudryk has been contacted by the Football Association after an adverse finding in a routine urine test. The Premier League club issued a brief ...

Former Brazil striker Ronaldo will run for the presidency of the country’s football confederation (CBF), the 48-year-old said on Monday. Ronaldo, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1994 ...

Authorities in Mayotte were racing on Tuesday to get food and water to residents stricken by the weekend’s devastating cyclone and fighting to stop hunger, disease and lawlessness spreading ...