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YouTube / Aurum Production Maxim Shugalei is played by actor Kirill Polukhin (pictured) in the Shugalei film series, funded by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin Dodging bullets, ducking explosions, safeguarding state secrets. Bombastic propaganda films present the shadowy Russian political operative Maxim Shugalei as a heroic figure – who will apparently stop at nothing in his…

The boss of the company behind global fashion chain Uniqlo has told the BBC that the Japanese firm does not use cotton from the Xinjiang region of China in its products. It is the first time Fast Retailing’s chief executive Tadashi Yanai has directly addressed the contentious issue. China is a crucial market for Uniqlo…

Alan Lafley Former P&G CEO Alan Lafley says leading a big firm is like running a Premier League football team Boeing, Nike and Starbucks have all changed their chief executives in recent months. But just how important is the person in the top job for the successful running of such huge companies? “There’s only one…

Sue Paz/BBC Theatre-goers including Laura Johnson (pictured second left), Lucie Robertson (second from right) and Jenny Gwillam (far right) said they felt let down Jason Donovan fans were left “fuming” when they turned up at a theatre expecting to see him in The Rocky Horror Picture Show only to find it was his day off.…

The sale of Royal Mail to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group is close to being finalised and could be confirmed in the next two weeks, according to sources close to the deal. Kretinsky has agreed to make extra concessions in order to clinch the takeover, the BBC understands. Unions have been meeting with Kretinsky’s…

No-one epitomised that hunger more than 21-year-old right-back Conor Bradley, who delivered the sort of display that suggested Liverpool may have a perfect replacement in waiting should Trent Alexander-Arnold, as has been speculated upon, take the road to the Bernabeu in the summer. Bradley has excelled before but this was his best display yet given…

Kemi Badenoch has admitted the Conservatives “got it wrong” on immigration in her first “major speech” as party leader, the Daily Telegraph says. Speaking in Westminster, she accepted “responsibility” for the failure of the last government to bring down net migration and pledged to “rebuild trust” with voters, the paper adds. An image of Angela…

Getty Images Researchers say they have found the first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years. The injection dampens part of the immune system that can go into overdrive in flare-ups of both asthma and a lung condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Benralizumab is already used in the most severe cases, but…

Cold case detectives re-investigating the shooting of a banker 20 years ago say they are keeping an open mind to the murderer’s motive. Dad-of-two Alistair Wilson was shot on the doorstep of his family home in the Highland seaside town of Nairn on 28 November 2004. He later died in hospital. The murder remains unsolved…

As he was yukking it up with Daily Wire commentator and vehement anti-LGBTQ provocateur Michael Knowles on his podcast, “Triggered With Donald Trump Jr.,” this week, the president-elect’s eldest son made something of an announcement about his and his father’s latest scheme to go after mainstream news sources during Trump II. “I wonder now, as your…