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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked confidential Treasury briefing to banker friend

The former prince, who was then Britain’s trade envoy, suggested the information might be useful “before you make your move”.

  • Poppy Wood, Neil Johnston and Isabel Oakeshott

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Donald Trump speaks at Davos.

Trump’s Biden moment on world stage as he repeatedly calls Greenland ‘Iceland’

If the Europeans want to play hardball, they can always say to the US president: “You want Greenland so badly? You couldn’t even get its name right.”

  • Michael Koziol
Forget art galleries with steep admission prices and long entry queues. The most interesting gallery you can visit in any city is completely free: the local supermarket.

Forget art galleries: If I want culture overseas, here’s where I go

Forget galleries with steep admission prices and long entry queues. The most interesting gallery you can visit in any city is completely free.

  • Lee Tulloch
Volcano

Car-sized boulders no match for lava as officials race to evacuate fishing village

Residents of a mostly abandoned village in Iceland refused to leave their homes even as molten rock broke through barriers set up to protect them.

  • Bronte Gossling
Majestic landscapes at Pulpit Rock.

Ranked and rated: Which Scandinavian country is the best destination?

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland or Greenland? We compare the contenders across five categories to help you decide which to visit.

  • Sarah Marshall
View of the lava fountains pouring out from the new eruptive fissure opened at Svartsengi volcanic system, Iceland, this week. The fissure is 3km north of Grindavik.

Spectacular Iceland volcano eruption raises pollution fears

Fountains of glowing molten rock shot into the night sky when the volcano first erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula.

  • Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Tom Little
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Searching for The Female Geldingi

While boomers go on more than just a date.

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Cross words for the PM

While we wait on the Speaker of the (smallest room in the) House.

Senua

Xbox sequel raises the bar for audio, immersion and mental health in video games

Like a visually stunning eight-hour TV series, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II is a 10th century Viking adventure following a warrior who lives with psychosis.

  • Tim Biggs
Langjokull

See this magnificent place before it’s gone forever

I’ve read a lot about global warming, but seeing it so starkly in action is shocking, and it makes me wonder if I should be here at all.

  • Brian Johnston