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Her record wasn’t perfect, but she transformed the landscape. Her exit speech made me rueful for what might have been

It gives a result within 15 minutes by testing a drop of blood from a finger prick. A "reactive" result means HIV is possible and a clinic check is needed.

British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, who was sentenced to death in Iran, has been executed.

The lexicon is lost for synonyms for mayhem, havoc, chaos and pandemonium. The front pages of all the newspapers and their websites that led the way to this abyss have used them all up. Those who backed Liz Truss, those who engineered Brexit..

Politicians and journalists scatter the word “crisis” like salt over hot chips, but every now and then the term really applies. The Bank of England’s emergency intervention in financial markets on Wednesday qualifies as a crisis – for the Bank, the government and the public.

Le “mini-budget” britannique annoncé avant le week-end a entraîné une chute brutale et historique de la livre sterling, malmenée sur le marché des changes. Les traders semblent avoir pris en grippe le contenu de ce plan qui prévoit une série de baisses d’impôts favorisant en premier lieu les plus riches.

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years.

The UK has become the first country to approve a dual vaccine which tackles both the original Covid virus and the newer Omicron variant.

China has accused the United States of being “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development”, in response to accusations by the heads of security services in Washington and London that Chinese spying is a global threat and China is threatening international order.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told MPs he would “keep going” despite a growing list of Conservative ministers and other officials resigning in protest over his handling of the case of a senior official accused of sexual misconduct.