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Norris holds nerve to end McLaren's long wait for team title

The wait has been long and torturous for McLaren, but by the close of a victory for Lando Norris at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, it was worth it as the team celebrated their first Formula One constructors' championship for 26 years—opening perhaps a new era for them, just as another came to an end for Lewis Hamilton.

Bowlers finish off Black Caps after Root's relentless century

England could scarcely have been made to feel more welcome in New Zealand, be it a warm-up game tailored to their specifications in Queenstown, those eight dropped catches in Christchurch, or the cheery ground announcer regaling spectators with Harry Brook's eye-popping statistics throughout the two Tests.

'He's class' Bethell proved No 3 was right call, says Stokes

After securing a win inside three days in a gale, the series victory against New Zealand also claimed with a Test match to spare, Ben Stokes was himself blown away.

Dean's hat-trick helps level ODI series against South Africa

Charlie Dean revealed she was unaware she had claimed a hat-trick as England beat South Africa by six wickets in Durban to level the one-day international series at 1-1.

Culture of fear Time to look beyond toxic win-at-all-costs approaches

Danny Care's stories about the England rugby environment under Eddie Jones reveal important insights into the ways that sport is experienced, organised and led.

UK 'needs to play catch-up' in global race to upgrade power grids

The UK is lagging behind in the race to rewire the world's power grids by investing four times more on renewable energy projects than on the electricity cables needed to connect them to the grid and consumers, according to a report.

Political funding Musk's rumoured millions for Farage may spur real reform

Elon Musk has denied he is gearing up to chuck $100m at Nigel Farage's Reform UK party, as it pushes to take on the Tories.

Media Breakup drama continues at ITV despite long run of profitable hit shows

Carolyn McCall enters her eighth year as boss of ITV; she might be forgiven for wondering if she should have taken the chance to run Marks & Spencer instead.

Christmas party dips under threat as food workers' strike continues

It could be crunch time for party nibbles amid fears of further shortages of cheese and chive dips, soups and pasta sauces after hundreds of workers at a food production site voted for three months of further strike action.

Double blow as job vacancies and business mood slump

The number of job vacancies in November fell at the fastest rate since the start of the pandemic, as UK business confidence slumped to its lowest level in almost two years, according to two new reports.

Facebook UK cut 700 staff and reduced tax bill, accounts show

Facebook cut more than 700 employees in the UK last year at a cost of £79m after its parent company, Meta, embarked on its first-ever round of redundancies as part of a global cost-cutting drive to offset a disastrous collapse in revenues.

Whale of a time How Moby-Dick marathons became American tradition

Every autumn on Venice beach, locals set up a chair by the water. A harpoon goes on one side, a whalebone on the other. Then, in honor of grey whale migration season, they spend two days reading Moby-Dick aloud.

Tanzania Hopes for reform fade amid wave of repression

When Samia Suluhu Hassan took office as Tanzania's president in 2021, many in the east African country hailed what they hoped was a new dawn after the authoritarian and repressive rule of her predecessor, John Magufuli.

Former president in historic comeback as Voters punish Ghana's ruling party

Ghana's former president John Dramani Mahama won a historic comeback election victory yesterday after voters appeared to punish the ruling New Patriotic party (NPP) over its management of an economic crisis.

'A gram is $6' Crystal meth use booms in Mexico as prices fall

11 night, Daniela stares at screens in the warehouse where she works as a security guard. The challenge is to stay awake. So, before every shift, she smokes crystal meth for the euphoric focus it gives her.

Filling the vacuum President-in-waiting is wasting no time in seizing the agenda

The grand reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris on Saturday was attended by about 50 heads of state and government. Joe Biden was not there to admire the magnificent splendour of the 850-year-old place of worship, but Donald Trump was.

Zelenskyy wants to make peace deal with Russia, Trump claims

Donald Trump has called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, a day after meeting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Paris, claiming Kyiv \"would like to make a deal\" to end its war with Russia.

Notre Dame holds first mass since devastating fire in 2019

Parisians and the world rediscovered the breathtaking beauty of the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral on Saturday evening, five years after it was devastated by fire.

'A domino effect' Family looking for answers over Sheffield killing

When the family of Roger Leadbeater, a 74-year-old man stabbed to death while walking his dog yards from his home in Sheffield, went to lay flowers at the scene two days later, they were met with a horrifying sight.

Review to end scandal of debt due to flaws in carer benefit, says minister

The government has promised a \"new settlement\" for unpaid carers, vowing to end the scandal of carer benefit overpayments that has left hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in huge debt and in some cases facing prosecution.

Blackpool How poverty and austerity led to lowest male life expectancy in the UK

It is a league table that no one wants to top. For the first time in 20 years, Blackpool, a once-glamorous seaside resort, has overtaken Glasgow to have the lowest average male life expectancy in the UK.

Review Grimm tale stuffed with sweet treats

Hansel and Gretel Globe theatre, London

Theatre review Spiky and spectacular show has fabulous performances

Noel Streatfeild's classic 1936 novel about three adopted sisters who go to stage school is underpinned by spiky subject matter, in the tradition of good children's stories. Pauline (Grace Saif) is salvaged from a shipwreck, Petrova (Yanexi Enriquez) orphaned in Russia, and Posy (Daisy Sequerra) given up by her dancer mother who has \"no time for babies\". They are taken in by professor and palaeontologist, Great Uncle Matthew (Justin Salinger), GUM for short, who hands them over to two female charges at 999 Cromwell Road and departs for adventures abroad.

'The system is a joke' Day in the life of crown court where delays and shortages are the norm

A man bursts out of a courtroom, shouting expletives. The judge has just ruled that his brother-in-law will not be going to prison after sexually assaulting his two young daughters.

Alleged offenders are spending up to five years in prison awaiting trial

Court backlogs are forcing alleged offenders to spend up to five years in jail awaiting trial and driving innocent people to plead guilty, two prison watchdogs have revealed.

Compass The Labour majority 'has a timebomb under it'

Keir Starmer's focus on winning over voters from the centre-right has delivered Labour a large but fundamentally shallow election victory and a weak mandate to deliver real change, a Labour-linked thinktank has warned.

Housing People take priority over saving newts, says Rayner

Newts should not be more protected than people who need homes, Angela Rayner said yesterday before an overhaul of national planning guidelines.

Reeves: closer ties with EU will replace division and chaos

Rachel Reeves plans to end Britain's fractious post-Brexit relationship with the EU, which she describes as defined by \"division and chaos\", by promising closer ties in the first speech since 2020 by a UK chancellor to eurozone finance ministers.

I was partly deaf for three months after Covid jab, says violinist Kennedy

The violinist Nigel Kennedy has said that he experienced partial deafness for about three months after having the third Covid vaccine in 2021.

Fayed faked dementia to avoid trial, says youngest son

Mohamed Al Fayed pretended he had dementia to evade prosecution for sexual crimes, his son has said.