Sam Allardyce is poised to formalise his return to football at Crystal Palace over the next 24 hours after his ill-fated 67-day stint as England manager, as the struggling Premier League club seek to make a swift appointment following the sacking of ...

Joachim Gauck, the German president, with medics at the Virchow clinic in Berlin. Photograph: Kay Nietfeld/AP. Kate Connolly in Berlin and Luke Harding in London. Wednesday 21 December 2016 13.23 EST Last modified on Wednesday 21 December 2016 ...

Ghana's President-elect and candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo speaks during an interview at his residence in Accra, on December 10, 2016, a day after winning the national election, tapping into an electorate fed up ...

Q When did the Polish owner of the lorry report to police that his vehicle was missing? Kandt says the first time they knew about the existence of the lorry was after the attack had taken place. He said the fact the owner had no GPS contact to the ...

The owner of a Polish trucking company says the driver who was the first victim of the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin was stabbed and shot to death in the cabin of his truck, the Associated Press is reporting. Ariel Zurawski says German ...

Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and Vladimir Putin in October. Putin referred to Karlov's assasination as a 'provocation'. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images. Julian Borger World affairs editor. Monday 19 December 2016 18.26 EST. Share on Facebook · Share ...

Sadio Mané beats Ramiro Funes Mori to the ball to score Liverpool's winner deep in second-half injury-time against Everton at Goodison Park. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA. Andy Hunter at Goodison Park. Monday 19 December 2016 17.09 EST. Share on ...

A deal to free east Aleppo's remaining civilians in exchange for sick and wounded people from two pro-government villages stalled again on Sunday after six buses sent to evacuate the loyalist areas were stopped and set ablaze. The buses were ...

Arsène Wenger remonstrates during the match, with Manchester City's Pep Guardiola close by. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. Jamie Jackson at the Etihad Stadium. @JamieJackson___. Sunday 18 December 2016 15.23 EST. Share on Facebook ...

Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager, left, remonstrates during the match, with Manchester City's Pep Guardiola close by. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images. Jamie Jackson at the Etihad Stadium. @JamieJackson___. Sunday 18 December 2016 15.23 ...

Jordanian security forces killed at least four gunmen after an operation to free tourists trapped inside a medieval castle in the city of Karak, where armed men had taken shelter following a series of shootouts with police that killed at least nine people.

Uber's defiant stance appears to be setting the company on a collision course with California regulators in court. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP. Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco. @juliacarriew. Friday 16 December 2016 21.00 EST. Share on Facebook ...

Next question is about Trump's conversation with the Taiwanese president and challenge to the One China policy. What's Obama think of a “fresh” China policy? Great question, he says. “I'm somewhere in between. I think all of our foreign policy should ...

Hillary Clinton has accused the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, of personally directing a cyberattack against her as revenge for a five-year-old slight. US intelligence agencies blame Russian hackers for targeting the Democratic National Committee ...

Antonio Conte believes the Premier League is 'the best in the world to play' despite the newfound power from China. Photograph: Richard Lee/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock. Dominic Fifield · @domfifield. Friday 16 December 2016 10.40 EST. Share on Facebook ...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic celebrates with Jesse Lingard and Marcus Rashford after the Swedish forward scored a late winner. Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images. Dominic Fifield at Selhurst Park. @domfifield. Wednesday 14 December 2016 17.03 EST. Share on ...

Cesc Fàbregas scores the only goal of the game for Chelsea against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Photograph: Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images. Louise Taylor at the Stadium of Light. Wednesday 14 December 2016 16.56 EST. Share on ...

Pro-government forces advance during a military operation in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday. Photograph: George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images. Martin Chulov, Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Patrick Wintour. Wednesday 14 December 2016 13.16 EST.

Syrians leave a rebel-held area of Aleppo to go to the government-held side. Photograph: Karam Al-Masri/AFP/Getty Images. Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul. Tuesday 13 December 2016 20.50 EST First published on Tuesday 13 December 2016 12.58 EST.

Rosneft chief executive Igor Sechin, Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump's secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson in Russia. Tillerson has close relationships with the two most powerful men in Russia. Photograph: Sputnik/Reuters. Shaun Walker in ...