Pakistani forces launched airstrikes against military targets in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as well as other provinces close to the border ...

The British-American author on arguing about Jane Austen, the joys of Jerome K Jerome, and revising his opinion of Philip Roth ...

Reform UK finished second and Labour is pushed into third place in bad news for PM Keir Starmer ...

With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur movies ...

A Champions League return underpinned record growth for Liverpool but overall administrative costs resulted in a modest £8m profit ...

The fourth season of TV’s once underrated drama has maxed out on everything – sex, nastiness, nihilism – and it’s been a major miscalculation ...

Can Australia back up their win in the opening ODI when the two sides meet again in Hobart? Find out with our writers ...

Happy Mondays frontman says forthcoming book will include bullet-dodging scrapes in Jamaica and New York as well as ‘bust-ups and benders’ with his bands ...

Winter Storm Hernando, which struck north-eastern regions this week, described as a ‘bomb cyclone’ ...

The president and his allies have never been interested in helping or elevating female athletes. His true feelings were exposed on Sunday ...

Lillie West’s fourth album is a hazy, mid-tempo meditation on escape that gets stuck in a numbing mid-tempo mode – though there is a gorgeous moment of release ...

Hannah Spencer won with a large majority, Reform came second. Meanwhile, with Labour third and the Tories losing their deposit, this felt like a rejection of the status quo ...