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Rory McIlroy has challenged Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm to “prove” their commitment to Europe’s Ryder Cup team by settling their multi-million pound fines from the DP World Tour. England’s Hatton and Spaniard Rahm were fined for competing in conflicting LIV Golf events while remaining members of the European-based tour. …

Brian WheelerPolitical reporter House of Commons Sir Keir Starmer has said he “will not yield” to pressure from Donald Trump over the future of Greenland, after the US president attacked the UK’s Chagos Islands deal. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir said the US president had criticised the Chagos …

[ Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Although adolescents and young adults comprise only one quarter of the sexually active population in the United States, approximately half of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are diagnosed in people of these ages. Compared to older adults, little is known about how teens and young …

[ The Global Virus Network (GVN), representing eminent human and animal virologists from more than 90 Centers of Excellence and Affiliates in over 40 countries dedicated to advancing research, collaboration, and pandemic preparedness, expresses deep concern regarding the ongoing resurgence of measles in the United States and around the globe. …

The northern lights were captured for the second night in a row across the United Kingdom. After a large solar eruption on the Sun earlier this week – known as a Coronal Mass Ejection – our atmosphere continues to be hit by increased solar energy. On Tuesday night Earth was …

Aviation safety campaigners in the United States say they have evidence a plane that crashed in India last year had previously suffered a series of technical failures, including a fire. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed on 12 June, shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad en route to London, killing 260 …

The order to indefinitely pause the processing of immigrant visa applications from those 75 countries will take effect on Wednesday, 21 January. Prior to this move, Trump expanded a travel ban that came into force on 1 January, which bars nationals of countries on that list from entering the US. …

Elon Musk has suggested he could buy Ryanair and called for its chief executive to be fired amid a deepening spat between the pair. The budget airline on Tuesday branded the Tesla chief executive an “idiot”, and used the extraordinary row to promote its January sale. Musk and Ryanair boss …

A succession of injuries damaged City’s challenge on all fronts last season and there is a similar feeling this time round. Guardiola had to make the trip to Norway without eight injured players, as well as new signing Antoine Semenyo, who is ineligible to play in the group phase of …

Brendan HughesPolitical reporter, BBC News NI PA Media Liz Kimmins described the exchanges in the assembly chamber as a “pantomime” Stormont’s infrastructure minister has defended her response to a billboard linked to Sinn Féin on public land. Liz Kimmins faced questions in the Northern Ireland Assembly as parties clashed over …

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the “old order is not coming back” and urged fellow middle powers to come together in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” Carney said …

Premier League referees’ boss Howard Webb has rejected claims that his officials made a mistake by not sending off Diogo Dalot in Saturday’s Manchester derby. Dalot was booked in the 11th minute of Manchester United‘s 2-0 win over Manchester City for a high challenge on Jeremy Doku. The Portugal international …

A tribunal in Colombia has sentenced a former paramilitary leader, Salvatore Mancuso, to 40 years in prison for murders and forced disappearances committed at the height of the country’s armed conflict. Mancuso was a commander in the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary group originally created to …

Middlesbrough boss Kim Hellberg has said he believes Hayden Hackney wants to stay with the Championship club. Manchester United are reportedly interested in the 23-year-old midfielder. A move there would reunite him with former Boro boss Michael Carrick, who is in interim charge at Old Trafford. Tottenham and Everton have …

Donald Trump detonated a series of bombshells on his Truth Social overnight. There was the leaking of private messages from France’s President Emmanuel Macron, the posting of images of Canada and Greenland as part of the US, and then going all out on Sir Keir Starmer and the UK by …

Dave and Siobhan Smith Rupert Smith is undergoing tests in hospital after the medical emergency A baby with a rare neurological disorder, airlifted to hospital after collapsing in a supermarket, is not “out of the woods yet”, said his father. Seven-month-old Rupert Smith, from Broughton, Flintshire, stopped breathing in a …

Gloucester have signed lock Joe Joyce from Connacht Rugby for the 2026-27 season. The 31-year-old joined the United Rugby Championship side in 2022, having previously spent 10 years with Gloucester’s Prem rivals Bristol Bears. The second-row has played 46 matches in all competitions for the Irish province so far, including …

The United Nations has accused Israel of “an unprecedented attack” after diggers started demolition work at a compound used for decades by UNRWA, the UN agency that provides support to Palestinian refugees. Heavy machinery smashed through structures on the site, including a former barracks building, as part of a plan …

John SudworthEast Jerusalem Israel Land Authority It is the latest move by Israel against the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, after Israel passed a law restricting where it could operate Israeli demolition teams, accompanied by police, have begun tearing down the headquarters of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, Unrwa, in occupied …

Alamy US President Donald Trump has said the UK’s plan to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is an “an act of GREAT STUPIDITY”, months after he endorsed the move. Under the £3.4bn ($4.6bn) deal, the UK will lease back Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands, …