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Admiral Sir Ben Key at a Royal National Lifeboat Institution service.
Head of Royal Navy suspended over ‘affair with subordinate’

Admiral Sir Ben Key is the only first sea lord to have faced a misconduct inquiry in the navy’s 500-year history

Politics

Sycamore Gap pair guilty of felling famous tree

Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers are facing prison for causing damage to the famous tree and to Hadrian’s Wall, a Unesco heritage site




Pope Leo XIV leading a mass.


Karen Beaumont Carter holding a glass of white wine.
An expat, a French lover and an infatuated neighbour: the inside story of the Dordogne killing

Betrayal and buried secrets are emerging in the sleepy French village of Trémolat — where everyone is a potential suspect



Collage of a Eurostar train with London and Geneva in the background.
UK to Switzerland in five hours by high-speed train? Not so fast

Portrait of Percival Everett.
Percival Everett: Parallels between US and 1933 Germany are frightening

Collage of a Eurostar train with London and Geneva in the background.
UK to Switzerland in five hours by high-speed train? Not so fast






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Simon Mann, leader of a group of arrested foreigners, leaving a Zimbabwean prison court.
Simon Mann, mercenary behind failed ‘wonga coup’ in Equatorial Guinea, dies

An Old Etonian and SAS veteran, he dedicated his life to the extreme pursuit of adventure and wealth


Hereford cattle eating hay in a feedlot.
Can border checks keep hormone-treated beef out of Britain?


Wild chimpanzees drumming with human-like rhythms.
King of the swingers: chimps drum like jazz musicians

Brother John Green at the Hospital of St Cross.
Oh, Brother! Pensioner’s 3,000-mile trip around Britain by bus


British Airways planes at Gatwick Airport.


Oghenochuko Ojiri, art dealer, outside Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Bargain Hunt expert admits failing to report sales to ‘Hezbollah financier’



Two boys watch a cricket match from a lamppost.
The Times has millions of London photos. This book shows the best


New NHS England boss: I won’t roll over to Wes Streeting


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Editor's picks



Coltan and manganese miners in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Battlefield triumphs by M23 rebels backed by Rwanda have sparked an international scramble for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s modern gold

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I’m with Michelle Obama, an empty nest could break me

It will be some time yet before my children leave home but when I contemplate their vacant rooms I know who I will call



Illustration of a four-panel cartoon depicting Donald Trump and other figures.

Cartoon by Morten Morland



a man in a pink shirt stands in front of a white background
Tidal power was once the future, but 800 years on it’s still all at sea






a man in a pink shirt stands in front of a white background
Tidal power was once the future, but 800 years on it’s still all at sea






Shirley Ballas in a teal sequined dress sitting on a white sofa.

The Strictly head judge tells Julia Llewellyn Smith about her stalker ordeal, joining dating apps and why she only eats one meal a day


Collage of four bottles of sparkling wine.
Jane MacQuittyThe best cava to buy now — including a £5.79 Aldi bottle





a man wearing glasses and a suit stands in front of a white background
Alistair OsborneUS trade deal amounts to a U-turn with few benefits





Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifying before the House Financial Services Committee.
Markets lifted by softer Trump message on trade
Economics
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Sir John Bell at a restaurant table.
Sir John Bell: ‘We’ve seen spectacular growth in life sciences. The risk is we lose it’

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Lance Armstrong cycling in the 2004 Tour de France.

Twenty-five years on from disgraced cyclist’s expert act of lying in his first autobiography, Sally Jenkins talks about phone call she’ll never forget

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