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Putin?s play for an Indonesian airbase was always likely to fail ? but Russia has wider ambitions

A defence industry report claiming that Russia requested a permanent base for its warplanes in Indonesia?s remote Papua region, right on Australia?s n...

?This platform gave me everything?: street performers rue end of busking at Leicester Square

Tommi has been a living statue for 20 years, endeavouring to stay rooted to the spot amid hailstones, loose dogs and teasing teenagers. But even he w...

Pop goes the budget: Roy Lichtenstein works expected to raise ?26m at auction

Forty works from the private collection of Roy Lichtenstein, one of the world?s best-known pop artists, will go on sale for the first time at auction ...

Like the Ritz for wildlife: the joy of recreating England?s ancient hedges

The 30-metre ridge runs across the moor near Yar Tor on Dartmoor, one of several faint lines that crisscross the land like aeroplane contrails. Althou...

Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won?t | Martin Kettle

It?s a deal. The words sound good. Most human beings are primed to think of a deal as desirable in itself. It isn?t hard to see why. Agreement is gene...

Ex-UK defence minister ?disgusted? by Trump?s attitude to Putin and Russia

Pronouncing himself ?disgusted? by Donald Trump?s favorable attitude to Russia and Vladimir Putin, the former UK defence minister Grant Shapps said th...