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Britain / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, September 18, 2025
Editorial / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
People march during a pro-Greenlanders demonstration, in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 17, 2026. Photo: Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP
United States / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
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Mental Health / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture

Katie Boulter of Britain plays a forehand return to Belinda Bencic of Switzerland during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026
Women's Tennis / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

Meanwhile, Sonay Kartal declares her loss to 31st seed Anna Kalinskaya the worst she had played in years

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Opinion / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

JULIA THOMAS unpicks the mental processes that explain that why book-to-film adaptations so often disappoint

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Yemenis perform traditional dance marking the opening of the honey festival in Sanaa, Yemen, January 17, 2026
Yemen / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Soldiers of the Kurdish-led, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deploy with armoured military vehicles to secure roads leading to Gweiran Prison, northeastern Syria, January 19, 2026
Syria / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Firefighters battle a blaze at a house as wildfires burn in Lirquen, Chile, January 18, 2026
Chile / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Israeli authorities demolish a UNRWA compound, belonging to the U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees, in east Jerusalem, January 20, 2026
World / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
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Mental Health / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture

   Protesters participate in a demonstration in support of the nationwide mass protests in Iran against the government, in Berlin, Germany, January 18, 2026
Middle East / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE

Voices of Scotland / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services 

 A crowd walks to the US consulate to protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in Nuuk, Greenland, January 17, 2026
The Arctic / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island

Shops are closed during protests in Tehran's centuries-old main bazaar, Iran, January 6, 2026
Features / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN

Robert Jenrick with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at a Reform UK press conference in Westminster, London, where it was announced the former Conservative MP has joined Reform UK, January 15, 2026
Politics / 17 January 2026
17 January 2026

Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right —  and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY

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Men's Rugby Union / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Wales head coach Steve Tandy during a training session at Principality Stadium, Cardiff. Picture date: Wednesday October 29, 2025
Men's Rugby Union / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
Arthur Fery plays a backhand return to Flavio Cobolli during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, January 18, 2026
Men's Tennis / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026
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Music review / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

CONRAD LANDIN thrills to the voice of 79-year-old Emmylou Harris, that is enriched rather than compromised by the gravel of experience

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Letters from Latin America / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

The debut novel by Uruguayan Eugenia Ladra, and poetry by Gerardo Diego

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Books / 20 January 2026
20 January 2026

RICHARD MURGATROYD appreciates a study that urges us to think about water differently, as a living entity with its own logic and intelligence

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Album reviews / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

New releases from Zulu Guitar Blues, Fela Kuti, and Amadou & Mariam

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Album Review / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

IAN SINCLAIR revels in the reissue of great recordings by one of the most recognisable and radical voices in British music

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Theatre Review / 16 January 2026
16 January 2026

SIMON PARSONS applauds an original, visual and movement-based take on the birth and death of a relationship