Nick Eardley, Matt Murphy & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify PA Media The Royal Navy released images of the Sparta II (centre) as it moved through international waters in late December, before arriving in Syria Russia has stepped up its military withdrawal from Syria, removing vehicles and containers from its key Tartous port on the country’s…

Even in victory here, City were too often vulnerable on the counter-attack, with too many spaces in midfield for Club Brugge to exploit, but they dug deep when it mattered and clawed themselves out of the hole they were in. City will somehow have to fashion a vast improvement in the short period between this…

Lord Alan Sugar, star of the BBC show the Apprentice, wants to see real life apprentices, and all other workers for that matter, back in the workplace. “They’ve got to get their bums back into the office,” he has told the BBC. The businessman-turned-TV-personality, has launched into the debate which has been ongoing since working…

A small aircraft has crashed near Washington DC’s Ronald Reagan National Airport, according to local officials. It came down in the Potomac River, officials said, and search and rescue boats have been deployed to the area. Takeoffs and landings have been halted at the airport as emergency personnel respond to the incident, the airport wrote…

Colletta Smith and Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondents Getty Images Households in England and Wales will pay £123 more on average on their annual water bills from April, final figures show. The rise – higher than stated last month – will see the average annual bill rise to £603, but there are significant variations…

Watch: Trump directs construction of Guantanamo Bay detention centre for 30,000 migrants US President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay which he said would hold as many as 30,000 people. He said the facility at the US Navy base in Cuba, which would be separate from its…

Higher borrowing costs for the government may mean tax rises or spending cuts if it wants to stick to its own self-imposed rules, a leading economic think tank has warned. According to a report from the Resolution Foundation, the government is spending £7bn a year more paying interest on its debt than it was at…

The English Premier League was the league phase’s strongest division. Three of the Premier League’s four teams – Liverpool, Arsenal and Aston Villa – finished in the top eight and went straight into the last 16. The other, Manchester City, sneaked into the play-off round with a final-day win over Club Brugge. Spain’s La Liga…

Getty Images Meta has defended its $65bn (£52bn) investment in artificial intelligence (AI) days after US tech stocks wobbled in the wake of Chinese AI app DeepSeek’s sudden rise. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said to investors on Wednesday there was a lot to learn from DeepSeek, but that it was too soon to have “a…

Dominic Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News PA A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher-risk people will develop the disease, according to research. About 500,000 people in the UK live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis. Currently, they are offered regular checks for…