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How can Man City get Haaland firing again?

  • Sports
  • Feb 4, 2026

BBC Sport's football tactics correspondent Umir Irfan analyses why Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has stopped scoring in the Premier League and looks at ways Pep Guardiola can get the centre-f...

'I was facing a wall, shaking' - Fear on becoming Team GB flagbearer

  • Sports
  • Feb 4, 2026

Figure Skater Lilah Fear describes the moment she found out she would be a flagbearer for Team GB, alongside Brad Hall, at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony at Milano-Cortina on Friday, adding it w...

206 goals for Newcastle - but which were Shearer's best?

  • Sports
  • Feb 4, 2026

It's 20 years to the day since Alan Shearer became Newcastle United's all-time leading goalscorer, with his 201st strike in black and white. But which of his 206 Toon goals stand out? Alan picked h...

Is Putin ready for peace? Abu Dhabi talks will tell.

  • Politics
  • Jamie Dettmer
  • Feb 4, 2026

What comes out of this week’s negotiations may finally show whether the Russian president is serious.

Greece pushes to recruit tens of thousands more Asian migrant workers

  • Politics
  • Nektaria Stamouli
  • Feb 4, 2026

Aware that its drive for foreign workers will play badly with some supporters, the government is simultaneously penalizing migrants who entered Greece illegally.

He refused to fight for Putin. Germany says it’s safe for him to go back.

  • Politics
  • Eva Hartog, Nette Nöstlinger
  • Feb 4, 2026

A Russian pacifist who fled the Ukraine front now faces deportation under tougher asylum rules.

5 times the Winter Olympics got super political

  • Politics
  • Sebastian Starcevic
  • Feb 4, 2026

Invasions, nuclear crises and Nazi propaganda: The Games have seen it all.

Merz looks to Gulf ties to curb Germany’s reliance on the US

  • Politics
  • Nette Nöstlinger
  • Feb 3, 2026

A three-day trip to Arab Gulf states underscores Berlin’s pivot to “middle powers” amid cooling ties with Washington and Beijing.

Peter Mandelson built Britain’s Labour establishment. Now it’s torching him

  • Politics
  • Dan Bloom
  • Feb 3, 2026

The former British ambassador to Washington has been accused of betraying colleagues amid new Epstein file revelations.

Thérapie de groupe : Ursula von der Leyen tente d’apaiser les tensions au sein de la Commission

  • Politics
  • Gerardo Fortuna
  • Feb 3, 2026

Une série d’incidents impliquant des commissaires a conduit la présidente de l’exécutif européen à convoquer une réunion de crise.

Germans saying ‘nein’ to the stein

  • Politics
  • Ferdinand Knapp
  • Feb 3, 2026

Overall beer consumption is down but non-alcoholic beer sales, which are measured separately, are rising.

'We must keep the Games strong' - Coventry hints at Olympic changes

  • Sports
  • Feb 3, 2026

Speaking at her first Olympic Games as IOC president, Kirsty Coventry reveals "change is coming" to the Olympic program, adding the organisation "have to be honest" about what works to evolve and stre...