Mission teams will lose direct contact with Parker probe while it passes 3.8 million miles from sun’s surface

As we head into a new year, businesses are raising concerns about the UK’s economy and whether the government’s approach will bring stability or cause further challenges. Now we want your views...

Osko payments also affected as bank says it is working to restore services ‘at a busy time of year for all’

Financial markets don’t expect a cut until April but a fall in the Australian dollar on Monday suggests confidence one is on the cards

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, on a shortened Christmas Eve trading session in London

The year already ranked among my very worst – then I wound up on a tinsel-draped drip, while my family texted fun photos from the pub

With yacht deaths, shocking sex and a twisted love triangle, Marisa Abela stole the show in the year’s wildest drama. She opens up about why her HBO banking drama is just getting going

With Giorgia Meloni’s plan in tatters, one centre is housing stray dogs adopted by bored Italian guards

Resolution Foundation says higher prices and cold weather will hit poorer households hardest

Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and war

Former members also say complaints were mishandled and are seeking apology from Methodist church

Rumors of a rift between Baldoni and the cast of It Ends with Us began in August after the movie’s release

Brain processes signals from sensory organs at only about 10 bits per second, researchers say

 

Frank-Walter Steinmeier seeks to convey message of healing four days after the brutal attack in Magdeburg killed five people and injured more than 200

Gaetz’s 30-year-old wife Ginger describes herself as his ‘wifey’ in her Instagram profile bio. Rhian Lubin reports

Conservationists and scientists in New Zealand were astonished to find the world’s rarest whale washed ashore in South Island in July. With only seven spade-toothed whales identified, and none ever seen alive, this month saw the first dissection ...

The new leader was chosen by secret ballot two weeks after the previous premier resigned abruptly amid a power struggle with the Pacific nation’s royal family

South Korea says Kim Jong Un is focused on the production of kamikaze drones

Ukraine president criticises world leaders for doing ‘almost nothing’ to counteract Moscow’s military cooperation with Pyongyang. What we know on day 1,035