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The five-year government fund, which starts in 2025/26, will cover visa and relocation costs for researchers and family members. Getty Images

UK universities given new funds to lure world-leading researchers

Twelve institutions aim to attract up to 80 researchers to Britain

Extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner killed in paragliding accident

An anti-immigration protester tries to get through the cordon of riot police outside The Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. Getty Images

Protesters and police clash outside UK migrant hotel

King Charles hails Oxford's internationally renowned Islamic centre

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, alongside Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer as they meet in No 10 Downing Street. AP

Germany's Merz and UK's Starmer seal security pact in first summit meeting

Belgian court bans transit of military goods to Israel

Taliban denies arresting Afghans after UK data leak

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The life's work of the Lebanese-British archaeologist Claude Doumet-Serhal at the Sidon site began from a hunch as to the whereabouts of the mysterious ancient capital of the Canaanite and Phoenician people. Photo: Claude Doumet-Serhal

Arab ShowcaseArchaeologist Claude Doumet-Serhal unearthed secrets of a lost civilisation

Dr Charles Elachi. Photo: Christopher Michel / Wikimedia Commons

Arab ShowcaseCharles Elachi's stellar career from Bekaa to the great beyond

Mark Shrime. Photo: Mercy Ships

Arab ShowcaseGlobal surgeon Mark Shrime finds purpose in faith and patients

Zaid Al-Qassab, chief executive officer of M&C Saatchi Plc, before a Bloomberg Television interview in London. Bloomberg

Arab ShowcaseThe prime time of new global M&C Saatchi CEO Zaid Al-Qassab

Hanan Issa. Photo: Camera Sioned / Literature Wales

Arab ShowcaseThe fantastic tale of Wales’s first Muslim national poet Hanan Issa

Robert Mardini had many guises at the ICRC, including regional director of the Near and Middle East for seven years, but each role was always much more than just a job. Photo: Shutterstock

On a mission: How former ICRC chief found hope in darkest of times

From his desk overlooking Tuborg Harbour near Copenhagen, Novo Holdings chief executive Kasim Kutay manages the assets of the world’s wealthiest enterprise entity, the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: Novo Holdings

Why boss of Ozempic parent company revels in his Arab-British heritage

Memories of the community in the block where he grew up while military conflict reigned outside left an indelible mark on the young Habib Haddad's consciousness that was to inform his life's work. Photo: Habib Haddad

Tech entrepreneur Habib Haddad's childhood lesson from war-torn Beirut

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Georges Ibrahim Abdallah leaving court in Pau, France, during a previous hearing in 2010. AFP

Lebanese militant Georges Abdallah to be released from French prison after four decades

Prisoner scheduled to leave France for Beirut on July 25

Iceland volcano eruption forces residents and spa tourists to be evacuated

A Pakistan International Airline aircraft preparing to take off for Paris in January. AFP

UK lifts ban on Pakistani airlines after five years

Prevent scheme needs digital overhaul to focus on safeguarding

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers a speech at the Mansion House in London. EPA

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Slovakia vetoes new EU sanctions against Russia

Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK after personal data leak

France threatens Iran with UN sanctions by end of August

EU countries discuss response to Israel human rights breaches

Lord Darzi was the victim of a watch robbery during a holiday to the Italian island of Capri. Bloomberg

Former UK minister robbed of £175,000 watch on Capri yacht holiday

Surgeon was attacked during a yacht holiday to the Italian island

Three arrested over 'targeted' knife attack in London's Knightbridge

EU failing to uphold its values with Gaza inaction, Palestinian ambassador says

Gaza documentary breached BBC guidelines by not revealing Hamas connection

Macron issues Bastille Day defence boost to combat ‘threat to France’s freedom’

Heathrow expansion plan triggers airlines fury

Israeli and Palestinian foreign ministers set to join Brussels meeting

Bob Geldof, Live Aid, Wembley Stadium 7.13.1985 (Photo by Steve Rapport/Getty Images)

Live Aid at 40: Dubai's crucial role in 'the greatest show on Earth'

Gift of £1m from emirate's ruling family - dramatically announced on TV by organiser Bob Geldof - helped trigger avalanche of donations for Ethiopia famine appeal

Sheikh Mohamed receives phone call from President of Angola

UAE to foster women's businesses and support children in Ukraine

UK's F-35 stealth fighter jet dogged by delays and soaring costs

UK and France team up to bolster Eutelsat rival to Starlink

UK makes deal with France to deport migrants from small boats

Putin removes Russian deputy foreign minister and Middle East envoy Bogdanov

Engineers work on a Eutelsat satellite in Cannes, France. Investors are betting on the company's satellites as the best alternative to Starlink. AFP

UK and France team up to bolster Eutelsat rival to Starlink

Eutelsat is considered strategically important to European sovereignty as bloc seeks to boost military defences

UK makes deal with France to deport migrants from small boats

Putin removes Russian deputy foreign minister and Middle East envoy Bogdanov

Iran hosting and protecting Al Qaeda leadership, says UK

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