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- December 31st
- The Week’s big New Year’s Day quiz 2026
- ‘Netflix needs to not just swallow HBO but also emulate it’
- Trump considers giving Ukraine a security guarantee
- Will the mystery of MH370 be solved?
- The 5 biggest astronomy stories of 2025
- The best spots for a New Year’s Day swim
- The micro-resolutions to try in 2026
- What will happen in 2026? Predictions and events
- People of the year 2025
- December 30th
- Why is Trump’s alleged strike on Venezuela shrouded in so much secrecy?
- Why recognizing Somaliland is so risky for Israel
- Crossword: December 30, 2025
- What have Trump’s Mar-a-Lago summits achieved?
- The most anticipated movies of 2026
- The biggest viral moments of 2025
- Environment breakthroughs of 2025
- The 8 best comedy movies of 2025
- December 29th
- Shots fired in the US-EU war over digital censorship
- Alaa Abd el-Fattah: should Egyptian dissident be stripped of UK citizenship?
- Why 2025 was a pivotal year for AI
- Biggest political break-ups and make-ups of 2025
- The best drama TV series of 2025
- Crossword: December 29, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 29, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 29, 2025
- December 28th
- December 27th
- December 26th
- All roads to Ukraine-Russia peace run through the Donbas
- Why is Trump killing off clean energy?
- Sudoku hard: December 26, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 26, 2025
- Crossword: December 26, 2025
- Top albums of the year: from Bad Bunny to Rosalía
- Best books of 2025: the critics’ favourites
- The best tabloid stories of 2025
- December 25th
- 7 bars with comforting cocktails and great hospitality
- 7 recipes that meet you wherever you are during winter
- Nine best TV shows of the year
- 7 hot cocktails to warm you across all of winter
- Sudoku hard: December 25, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 25, 2025
- Crossword: December 25, 2025
- The Week’s end-of-year quiz for 2025
- Winter holidays in the snow and sun
- December 24th
- 8 new cookbooks begging to be put to good winter use
- Bari Weiss’ ‘60 Minutes’ scandal is about more than one report
- A foodie guide to Edinburgh
- Is there a Christmas truce in the Starmer farmer ding-dong?
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- The history of US nuclear weapons on UK soil
- Tea with Judi Dench: ‘touching’ show is must-watch Christmas TV
- Sudoku hard: December 24, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 24, 2025
- Crossword: December 24, 2025
- Blinkit: India’s 10-minute delivery app
- December 23rd
- Tariffs have American whiskey distillers on the rocks
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- Why women are feeling the festive stress
- Winter Sale
- The Kennedy dynasty: the future of America’s most famous political clan
- Is Keir Starmer being hoodwinked by China?
- A peek inside Europe’s luxury new sleeper bus
- Data centers could soon be orbiting in space
- Sudoku hard: December 23, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 23, 2025
- Crossword: December 23, 2025
- December 22nd
- How climate change is affecting Christmas
- The 8 best drama movies of 2025
- Why, really, is Trump going after Venezuela?
- Israel approves new West Bank settlements
- Guess the Number: December 2025
- Guess the Number: November 2025
- Guess the Number: October 2025
- Winter Sale
- Is Trump deliberately redacting Epstein files to shield himself?
- Ashes to ashes, ducks to ducks: the end of Bazball?
- The strangely resilient phenomenon of stowaways on planes
- Four Seasons Seoul: a fascinating blend of old and new in South Korea
- How to make the most of chestnuts
- The Week according to... Julie Lin
- Deaths of children under 5 have gone up for the first time this century
- Sudoku hard: December 22, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 22, 2025
- Crossword: December 22, 2025
- December 21st
- December 20th
- December 19th
- ‘Lumpy skin’ protests intensify across France as farmers fight cull
- Inside Minnesota’s extensive fraud schemes
- Who is paying for Europe’s €90bn Ukraine loan?
- Quiz of The Week: 13 – 19 December
- What’s causing the non-fiction slump?
- What is the global intifada?
- The Week Unwrapped: What’s the cost of PFAs?
- The week’s best photos
- Properties of the week: grand houses in the sun
- Sudoku hard: December 19, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 19, 2025
- Crossword: December 19, 2025
- Russia’s ‘weird’ campaign to boost its birth rate
- December 18th
- Oscars jump to YouTube after decades at ABC
- Turner Prize 2025: ‘artistic excellence’ or ‘cultural nonsense’?
- Man vs Baby: Rowan Atkinson stars in an accidental adoption comedy
- Goodbye June: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut divides critics
- A Christmas Carol (or two)
- Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: ‘funny, profound, must-see theatre’
- Will new reforms ease England’s dental care crisis?
- How weight-loss jabs are changing the way we eat
- Why the driving test backlog is in deadlock
- Pinocchio: ‘touching’ musical is a lot of fun
- Sudoku hard: December 18, 2025
- Crossword: December 18, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 18, 2025
- Antibiotic resistance: the hidden danger on Ukraine’s frontlines
- December 17th
- ‘Capitalism: A Global History’ by Sven Beckert and ‘American Canto’ by Olivia Nuzzi
- SiriusXM hopes a new Howard Stern deal can turn its fortunes around
- Trump vows naval blockade of most Venezuelan oil
- Trump vs. BBC: what’s at stake?
- Is Labour changing course on Brexit?
- Animal Farm: has Andy Serkis made a pig’s ear of Orwell?
- What new cryptocurrency regulations mean for investors
- The Salt Path Scandal: ‘excellent’ documentary of a ‘tawdry tale’
- AI griefbots create a computerized afterlife
- Sudoku hard: December 17, 2025
- Crossword: December 17, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 17, 2025
- December 16th
- Metaverse: Zuckerberg quits his virtual obsession
- Frank Gehry: the architect who made buildings flow like water
- Kushner drops Trump hotel project in Serbia
- US offers Ukraine NATO-like security pact, with caveats
- The Alps start the countdown to ‘peak glacier extinction’
- A long weekend in Fontainebleau
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- Spy cops inquiry: what we’ve heard so far
- How cryptocurrency is changing politics
- Shush! UK libraries worth travelling for
- The 8 best comedy series of 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 16, 2025
- Crossword: December 16, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 16, 2025
- December 15th
- Hong Kong court convicts democracy advocate Lai
- Australia weighs new gun laws after antisemitic attack
- Are Donald Trump’s peace deals unraveling?
- Parcel thefts: the rise of ‘porch pirates’
- Who is fuelling the flames of antisemitism in Australia?
- Tommy Robinson vs. the Church of England
- The best turkey alternatives to try this Christmas
- Sudoku hard: December 15, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 15, 2025
- Crossword: December 15, 2025
- Bulgaria’s rocky road to the euro
- December 14th
- December 13th
- December 12th
- 10 upcoming albums to stream during the winter chill
- Abrego García freed from jail on judge’s order
- The Week Unwrapped: what’s scuppering Bulgaria’s Euro dream?
- The UK’s big rail industry shake-up
- ‘Flunami’: should we be wearing masks?
- Will there be peace before Christmas in Ukraine?
- Quiz of The Week: 6 – 12 December
- Properties of the week: houses in national parks
- The week’s best photos
- Sudoku hard: December 12, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 12, 2025
- Crossword: December 12, 2025
- Denmark scraps letters and its iconic red postboxes
- December 11th
- One great cookbook: Natasha Pickowicz’s ‘More Than Cake’
- $1M ‘Trump Gold Card’ goes live amid travel rule furor
- US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela
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- It Was Just an Accident: a ‘striking’ attack on the Iranian regime
- Singin’ in the Rain: fun Christmas show is ‘pure bottled sunshine’
- Holbein: ‘a superb and groundbreaking biography’
- The Sound of Music: a ‘richly entertaining’ festive treat
- Nnela Kalu’s historic Turner Prize win
- Bridget Riley: Learning to See – an ‘invigorating and magical ensemble’
- ‘Stakeknife’: MI5’s man inside the IRA
- Oh yes they are! The UK’s best Christmas pantos
- The longevity economy booms as people live longer
- Sudoku hard: December 11, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 11, 2025
- Crossword: December 11, 2025
- December 10th
- How will China’s $1 trillion trade surplus change the world economy?
- Japan’s Princess Aiko is a national star. Her fans want even more.
- Australia’s teen social media ban takes effect
- Phish food for thought: Ben & Jerry’s political turmoil
- ECHR: is Europe about to break with convention?
- Normalising relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan
- Best poetry books of 2025
- ‘Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right’ by Laura K. Field and ‘The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare’ by Daniel Swift
- 11 extra-special holiday gifts for everyone on your list
- Sudoku hard: December 10, 2025
- Crossword: December 10, 2025
- December 9th
- The curious history of hanging coffins
- The real tragedy that inspired ‘Hamlet,’ the life of a pingpong prodigy and the third ‘Avatar’ adventure in December movies
- How dangerous is the ‘K’ strain super-flu?
- How did NHS maternity care get into such a state?
- Who is The Liz Truss Show for?
- Celeriac soup with pumpkin seeds and chilli oil recipe
- Sudoku hard: December 9, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 9, 2025
- Crossword: December 9, 2025
- December 8th
- Separating the real from the fake: tips for spotting AI slop
- Europe sets 2027 deadline to wean itself from Russian gas
- Benin thwarts coup attempt
- Moscow cheers Trump’s new ‘America First’ strategy
- Garam masala Christmas pudding recipe
- Netflix and Warner Bros: Hollywood ending for streaming giant?
- Did Trump just end the US-Europe alliance?
- Peppercorns and properties: why MPs are investigating royal rents
- The rise of Welsh wines
- How the War Department became the Department of Defense – and back again
- Sudoku hard: December 8, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 8, 2025
- Crossword: December 8, 2025
- December 7th
- December 6th
- December 5th
- A postapocalyptic trip to Sin City, a peek inside Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras’ tour, and an explicit hockey romance in December TV
- Stopping GLP-1s raises complicated questions for pregnancy
- Elizabeth Gilbert chooses books about women overcoming difficulty
- Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals – a ‘thrilling’ exhibition
- Choline: the ‘under-appreciated’ nutrient
- Is a Putin-Modi love-in a worry for the West?
- Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells: how spa town ran dry
- Quiz of The Week: 29 November – 5 December
- The Budget fallout: did Reeves mislead us?
- Properties of the week: gorgeous Georgian properties
- The week’s best photos
- The Week Unwrapped: Will drought fuel global violence?
- Sudoku hard: December 5, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 5, 2025
- Crossword: December 5, 2025
- December 4th
- The great global copper swindle
- Will Netanyahu get a pardon?
- Paddington: The Musical – a ‘funny, feel-good, family-friendly’ show
- Turkey keema and cheddar toastie recipe
- Wake Up Dead Man: ‘arch and witty’ Knives Out sequel
- Zootropolis 2: a ‘perky and amusing’ movie
- The stalled fight against HIV
- Storyteller: a ‘fitting tribute’ to Robert Louis Stevenson
- Is Europe finally taking the war to Russia?
- How coupling up became cringe
- The rapid-fire brilliance of Tom Stoppard
- How your household budget could look in 2026
- London’s best ice-skating rinks
- Inside a Black community’s fight against Elon Musk’s supercomputer
- Sudoku hard: December 4, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 4, 2025
- Crossword: December 4, 2025
- December 3rd
- China’s single mothers are teaming up
- Jane Austen lives on at these timeless hotels
- ‘Mexico: A 500-Year History’ by Paul Gillingham and ‘When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy’ by David Margolick
- Are the US boat strikes a war crime?
- Hegseth blames ‘fog of war’ for potential war crime
- Upper House Hong Kong: a serene sanctuary in the bustle of the city
- Marty Supreme: Timothée Chalamet is ‘captivating’ as ‘ping-pong prodigy’
- Is a Reform-Tory pact becoming more likely?
- When is too early to put up your Christmas tree?
- West Africa’s ‘coup cascade’
- Daddy Pig: an unlikely flashpoint in the gender wars
- One-pot leftover turkey and rice recipe
- Sudoku hard: December 3, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 3, 2025
- Crossword: December 3, 2025
- Homo floresiensis: Earth’s real-life ‘hobbits’
- December 2nd
- Canada joins EU’s $170B SAFE defense fund
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- Stranger Things, series five: ‘grander and gorier’ than ever
- Pros and cons of geothermal energy
- Should the right to trial by jury be untouchable?
- All aboard! The best railway-themed lodgings
- Australia’s teens brace for social media ban
- Labour’s dilemma on workers’ rights
- Sudoku medium: December 2, 2025
- Sudoku hard: December 2, 2025
- Crossword: December 2, 2025
- December 1st
- Poems can force AI to reveal how to make nuclear weapons
- The powerful names in the Epstein emails
- Death toll from Southeast Asia storms tops 1,000
- Honduras votes amid Trump push, pardon vow
- Congress seeks answers in ‘kill everybody’ strike report
- The launch of Your Party: how it could work
- Andriy Yermak: how weak is Zelenskyy without his right-hand man?
- Is it time to rethink the US presidential pardon?
- Step into a fairy tale at San Ysidro Ranch
- Best panettones for Christmas 2025: tried and tasted
- Sudoku hard: December 1, 2025
- Sudoku medium: December 1, 2025
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