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Some 156,525 new cars were registered in November (Gareth Fuller/PA)

New car market up 9.5% in November

The sixth game in the Grand Theft Auto series will be released in 2025, and will include its first female protagonist, Lucia (Screengrab/Rockstar Games/PA)

Grand Theft Auto VI trailer revealed early after online leak

Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda, where he will sign a new treaty with Rwanda (Ben Birchall/PA)

Cleverly visits Rwanda to sign asylum seeker treaty

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Severe weather conditions have hit southern Germany (AP)

Munich Airport suspends all flights due to freezing rain

Palestinians inspect a house after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza (AP)

Israel strikes Gaza’s second largest city in new phase of the war

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Vehicles driving through service water on a flooded part of the A37 near Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)

Train passengers face delays as heavy rain leads to flood warnings

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Some items on the festive plate are actually falling in price, analysts Kantar said (PA)

Cost of traditional Christmas dinner for four ‘up by just 1.3% on last year’

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking to the media at the Cop28 summit (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Sunak says ‘enough is enough’ as he steps up fight to control immigration

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Rising sea levels put coastal communities at greater risk of flooding from the sea (Gareth Fuller/PA)

Last decade hottest on record, says World Meteorological Organisation

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Rescue workers and volunteers work at the site of a bus accident at the Prachuap Khiri Khan province in Thailand (Sawang Rungrueang Rescue22 Foundation via AP)

Fourteen dead and more than 30 injured after bus crashes in western Thailand

The King speaks at the World Climate Action Summit at Cop28 in Dubai (Chris Jackson/PA)

King and Queen planning first trip to Australia and New Zealand – report

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Mount Marapi spews volcanic ash from its crater, in Agam, West Sumatra, Indonesia (Givo Alputra/AP)

Apparent death toll from Indonesia volcano eruption rises to 23

Police officers pursue a deer down a hallway at Cedar Grove Elementary School in Toms River, New Jersey (Toms River Police Department via AP)

Deer’s escape after breaking into US school captured on police bodycams

The USS Carney warship in the Mediterranean Sea (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryan U. Kledzik/US Navy via AP)

US and allies in talks on naval task force after Houthi attacks in Red Sea

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The Duke of Sussex’s legal challenge over his security arrangements while in the UK will reach the High Court (PA)

Harry’s legal challenge against Home Office to begin

The Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria (PA)

Sellafield denies nuclear site’s networks have been victim of cyber attacks

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What the papers say (Peter Byrne/PA)

What the papers say – December 5

James Cleverly announced the plans to MPs (Yui Mok/PA)

Cleverly pledges ‘biggest ever reduction’ in net migration with new plans

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Rishi Sunak (Yui Mok/PA)

Timeline of the Government’s Rwanda asylum deal

Sir Keir Starmer said at the Resolution Foundation conference that the EU is not a ‘silver bullet’ to boost growth (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)

Starmer: EU is no ‘silver bullet’ to fix UK economy

The UN refugee agency sounded the alarm for hundreds of Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift on the Andaman Sea (AP)

400 Rohingya Muslims on board two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea

Home Secretary James Cleverly arrives at Kigali International Airport in Rwanda (Ben Birchall/PA)

James Cleverly to seal new asylum treaty during visit to Rwanda

Thames Water said revenues rose to £1.3 billion but it spent a record £1 billion on improving its network (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Thames Water warns overhaul will ‘take time’ as debts mount and profits slump

(David Jones/PA)

More than 2,400 fossil fuel-linked delegates at Cop28, analysis suggests

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (Justin Tallis/PA)

Why was Rwanda policy blocked by courts and what is Rishi Sunak’s Plan B?

Una Burns (left), manager of Charlie’s Bar Enniskillen and Sarah Thompson (right), founder of embroidery company Ted & Stitch with Siobhan Casey from Age NI (Fiona Brown Communications/PA)

Enniskillen bar behind viral Christmas ad launches clothing to tackle loneliness

Marston’s has cheered another rise in sales (Marston’s/PA)

Marston’s cheers ‘promising’ Christmas bookings but drops to loss

The Sun Monument at Wentworth Castle Gardens, Yorkshire (Alun Bull/Historic England Archive/PA)

Monument honour for ‘one of the overlooked heroines in the history of medicine’

Attracting teenagers with their sweet flavours, these devices are facing scrutiny for their environmental implications (AP)

Bill to ban disposable e-cigarettes in France approved

Shoppers on Oxford Street, central London, as the Christmas shopping period begins for retailers (James Manning/PA)

Cautious consumers delay Christmas spending

Achieving greater social cohesion and national unity is impossible unless levels of immigration can be brought under control, Robert Jenrick has said (PA)

Cutting immigration is a matter of trust for Tories – Jenrick

Vehicle crashes on rural roads are more deadly overall, research suggests (Alamy/PA)

Rural road crashes more likely to be deadly, report says

Oxfam is urging shoppers to buy second-hand presents this Christmas (Oxfam/PA)

Shoppers urged to buy second-hand festive clothes and gifts amid waste concerns

Manchester has been crowned as the most generous city in the UK for the third year in a row (Dave Thompson/PA)

Manchester crowned most generous city in UK for third year in GoFundMe report

The Green House in Tottenham, London (Kilian O’Sullivan/Riba/PA)

‘True London oasis’ wins House of the Year 2023

More than three quarters accessing help from food banks were women, a survey has found (Alamy/PA)

Three-quarters of people accessing food support are women, survey suggests

Pornography is too readily accessible to children online, Ofcom has warned (PA)

Ofcom sets out guidance on protecting children from online pornography

Members of the Aslef union on a picket line ahead of continuing strikes (Danny Lawson/PA)

Rail passengers facing disruption as driver strikes continue

(Peter Devlin/GCU/PA)

Self-managing pessaries cause fewer issues in women with pelvic organ prolapse

Home Secretary James Cleverly (Leon Neal/PA)

James Cleverly heading to Rwanda to seal new asylum treaty

(Nick Ansell/PA)

Shake-up of Government’s crisis response needed, Covid inquiry evidence suggests

The defeat came despite a last-ditch attempt by the Government to offer concessions in a bid to placate MPs (Simon Dawson/PA)

MPs defeat Government over moves to compensate infected blood scandal victims

Undated handout photo issued by the IDF of Binyamin Needham, a British teenager who has been killed in Gaza while fighting for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the Israeli army said. Issue date: Monday December 4, 2023.

British teenager killed in Gaza while fighting for Israeli forces, says army

Sir Keir Starmer underlined the fundamental importance of the fiscal rules (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)

Labour’s £28bn green plans subject to fiscal rules, says Starmer

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Senior executives from five of the 11 water companies that deal with sewage took bonuses this year, while at the other six they declined after public outrage (Alamy/PA)

Ban water company chief executive bonuses, Labour to tell Commons

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Justice minister Edward Argar said the Government would amend the Victims and Prisoners Bill in the Lords (PA)

Minister bids to placate Tory rebels over compensation for infected blood victims

Actor Jonathan Majors arrives at court in New York (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Jonathan Majors assault trial starts with competing versions of confrontation

James Cleverly said UK citizens must be earning at least £38,700 to sponsor foreign family members wishing to gain a visa (Alamy/PA)

Britons earning under £38,700 face being unable live with foreign spouses in UK

Manuel Rocha when he was US ambassador to Bolivia (State Department via AP)

Former career US diplomat charged with secretly spying for Cuba for decades

Brianna Ghey was found with fatal wounds on a path in Culcheth Linear Park, near Warrington on February 11 (Handout/PA)

‘I saw her stabbing Brianna’, boy tells court

James Smith, 84, was killed in an explosion at an Edinburgh property (Police Scotland/PA)

Family pays tribute to man, 84, killed in Edinburgh explosion

Jeremy Corbyn (Jordan Pettitt/PA)

Jeremy Corbyn accuses Israel of ‘cleansing entire population of Gaza’

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Peter Norgrove, who has admitted the murder of Sharon Gordon (West Midlands Police/PA)

Builder admits murdering woman after working on extension at her home

Net migration in 2022 reached a record-high of 725,000 (Rick Findler/PA)

Key questions around Cleverly’s immigration shake-up

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