Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who went on to become one, himself, as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died.

The new head of MI6 is set to warn about Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to export chaos globally.

Exclusive: Parliament-based campaigners to set out ‘gold-standard’ reforms including banning trail-hunting

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The U.S. National Security Strategy described Trump's vision as one of "flexible realism."

A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world's most visited museum just weeks after a daring jewel heist exposed security flaws.

It was a wet, lazy Sunday evening when the baby fur seal waddled into the Sprig + Fern The Meadows craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of New Zealand’s South Island.

Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

Netflix has triumphed in the bidding war for Warner Bros. and HBO.

The company plans to say in a lawsuit that the Defense Department’s new reporting restrictions infringed on the constitutional rights of journalists.

The UK and Norway have signed a defence agreement allowing their navies to operate a combined fleet of warships.

For 10 years Ullapool has marked the countdown to Christmas with an unusual festive display.

Justice secretary suggests he will stick to Leveson’s recommended three-year sentence threshold, after ‘cabinet feedback’

Directors of Thames Water will meet within days to decide whether to proceed with more than £2m of retention payments to senior executives amid fierce scrutiny from MPs.

The US has agreed to spare the UK from threatened trade tariffs on pharmaceutical products.

Existence of phrase – to describe content intended to make you angry – shows people are aware of manipulation tactics used online, says Oxford Dictionary publisher Good news for those who find their blood pressure rising as they scroll through their online news feeds: the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher has highlighted the term they might need to describe how they often feel, naming “rage bait” as its word of the year. According to the Oxford University Press’ analysis, use of the phrase has tripled in the past 12 months. Continue reading...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Millions of jobs in some of the most important sectors to the UK economy are at risk of being replaced by AI, according to OBR analysis.

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