A flight tracker shows the route of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (25 December). Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 was travelling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to the Russian city of Grozny before it made ...

Nearly 400 scholars have fled Russia, Belarus and Ukraine since the start of the war. One of them narrates his ordeal to Arpan Rai

The moist, ungovernable hippo combines the aesthetic of a potato and the iron will of a toddler – and her name means ‘bouncy pork’. Here’s how she became 2024’s most in-demand mammal

Potential IPCC rule changes could award planned carbon savings from burning US wood pellets to the exporter, not the importer

Security personnel and three armed men killed in Tartous province after forces sought to arrest officer linked to Sednaya prison, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

 

YouGov survey finds negotiated end to war with Russia is preferred option in four out of seven countries

Archaeologists are recovering Stone Age artefacts from the bottom of the North Sea

Interim administration says security forces ambushed while ‘performing their tasks of maintaining security and safety’

Babies die from hypothermia as temperatures plummet in makeshift camps

From Bridgerton to Sherwood and Alma’s Not Normal, the actor has lit up our screens all year – and her ‘victory lap’ is only just starting …

More than 250 works from amateur and celebrated Welsh artists are on display at the National Library of Wales until September 2025

Barrage of gambling adverts likely to exacerbate addiction, as NHS in England doubles number of clinics to meet demand

The waves, which towered as high as 30 metres, killed more than 220,000 people in 15 countries in the deadliest tsunami in history

Politics Weekly UK is taking a break over Christmas. John Harris will be back on Thursday 2 January with his cultural highlights

Drugs such as Wegovy amd Mounjaro are an attractive prospect for online businesses and traditional pharmacies as well as the firms that make them

Guardian review finds many online pharmacies flouting strict advertising rules that govern prescription-only drugs

Danish defense minister says country will spend $1.5 billion to ensire ‘stronger presence’ in Arctic

Chains expand and high street cafes thrive but businesses face new pressures after budget

Rising temperatures are pushing these Arctic mammals ever farther into Greenland’s north. But eventually there will be nowhere left for them to go