Jetstar cancels 90 domestic flights across Australia after global Airbus A320 recall
Immediate software update ordered by Airbus after US mid-air incident causes airport disruption across Australia and New Zealand
Country diary: My Black Friday? A night-time skulk in the woods
Purwell Ninesprings, Hertfordshire: A chilly evening spent interpreting rustles and admiring the silhouetted trees – now that’s what I call a bargain
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
City life is reshaping raccoons – and may be nudging them toward domestication
Scientists say urban raccoons’ shorter snouts and calmer reactions to people mirror traits found in domesticated animals across species
Celebrity crib sheet: Katy Perry has spent all year in the headlines – here are the six things you need to know
She made a short, and much-ridiculed, trip to space. She tried to buy a house and fell foul of public opinion. And she’s found love, apparently, with Justin Trudeau. Time to get up to speed before this singer next hits the headlines
The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
Skyhooks guitarist Bob ‘Bongo’ Starkie dies aged 73
Starkie has died of leukaemia surrounded by friends and family and ‘listening to Chuck Berry’, his daughter says
Airbus issues major A320 recall after mid-air incident grounds planes, disrupting global travel
Immediate software change on ‘significant number’ of jets to result in disruption to half the worldwide fleet
Ukraine war briefing: one killed and seven wounded as Russia launches another overnight attack on Kyiv
Blasts heard in capital around midnight and residential buildings hit as Zelenskyy’s closest ally resigns amid anti-corruption probe. What we know on day 1,375
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
O come out ye faithful: a joyful roundup of UK culture this Christmas
Beauty and the Beast or Wolf Alice? Queen Marie Antoinette or Count Arthur Strong? Come and behold: the holiday season offers stage, film, music and art that’s worth singing about
Conchological delight and a return to real life. Remember that?
A change of heart on the search for a GHS down by the Thames before discovering the growing trend for ‘posting zero’
Budget has preserved Starmer’s job until at least May elections, say Labour MPs
While some call budget ‘tactical victory’, few MPs believe it is enough for Labour to beat Reform
What is prostate cancer and should I be worried if I wee a lot at night?
While risk of developing prostate cancer increases as you age, some groups are much more likely to get it than others
A Child’s Christmas in Wales review – exquisite Dylan Thomas adaptation has magic in every scene
Joy radiates from the stage as an ensemble cast from the Emma Rice Company bring Thomas’s twinkling poem to life
Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries
From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?