In a bunker below the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut, a jihadi commander with a half a million-dollar Russian bounty on his head, joins his men in prayer.

FIFA is investigating the circumstances which led to 'Salt Bae' gatecrashing Argentina's World Cup celebrations in Qatar on Sunday.

Benetton have suspended one of their players after prop Cherif Traore was given a rotten banana as a Christmas gift from a team-mate.

Rishi Sunak's new ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, is an old Etonian "quango king", a City grandee and a pillar of the establishment.

As a symbol of the year in crypto, the sight of Sam Bankman-Fried being hustled out of court in Nassau to a blacked-out SUV that would take him to an airfield, and an extradition flight to New York, takes some beating.

Cryptocurrency trading is "too dangerous" to remain outside mainstream financial regulation and could pose "a systemic problem" without action, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has warned.

In a bunker below the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut, a jihadi commander with a half a million-dollar Russian bounty on his head, joins his men in prayer.

Ambulance workers will stage two further strikes in January amid a dispute over pay and staffing.

The O2 Academy Brixton has had its licence temporarily suspended after two people died following a crowd crush.

People aged 16 will be able to apply to change their gender in Scotland, while the time required for someone to live in their acquired gender is to be slashed to three months after a controversial bill was passed.