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Argentina forward Lionel Messi has won men’s player of the year at the Fifa Best Awards, with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola claiming the men’s coach prize in London. Inter Miami’s Messi edged out City striker Erling Haaland with Paris St-Germain attacker Kylian Mbappe third. City’s Ederson collected the goalkeeper award ahead of Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois and Al Hilal’s Yassine Bounou. City won the Treble of Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in 2022-23. Messi wins by tightest margin Messi, 36, began 2023 at Paris St-Germain, before moving to Major League Soccer (MLS) club Inter Miami in June.…

Prosecutors have called for two British brothers to be banned from Switzerland for five years as punishment for their role in raiding a museum of iconic Chinese Ming Dynasty artefacts. At a court in Geneva on Monday, Stewart and Louis Ahearne confessed to being part of a gang which burgled the Museum of Far Eastern Art in June 2019. On top of the ban, prosecutor Marco Rossier said the court should jail the brothers for four years. They will be sentenced on Tuesday. Mr Rossier told the court the brothers, who are from south-east London – and a third man…

The US has condemned Iran over missile attacks near Iraq’s northern city of Irbil, calling them “a reckless and imprecise set of strikes”. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they struck what they claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” in northern Iraq with ballistic missiles. Four people were killed and six others wounded in Monday’s attack, according to Iraq’s Kurdistan security council. Iraq denounced the attacks, calling them a violation of its sovereignty. The strikes come amid rising tensions in the region since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on 7 October. The conflict has increasingly started to spill over to involve militias allied…

It was perhaps the least surprising victory in the history of the Iowa caucuses. Donald Trump won by a landslide in the first contest in the Republican race for a presidential nominee, the margin in the end as comfortable as the polls had predicted for months. But dominating the vote count was just one reason why the former president was celebrating on Monday night after his supporters braved extreme cold weather to deliver him the win. Neither of Mr Trump’s main rivals, Nikki Haley nor Ron DeSantis, emerged as a lead challenger – so the not-Trump vote remains divided. Meanwhile,…

Erosion is sculpting dramatic features into the world’s biggest iceberg in what’s likely to be the final months of its existence. A ship run by the Eyos expeditions company arrived at the frozen behemoth, A23a, on Sunday to find huge caves and arches cut into its frozen walls. The berg is being ground down by the warmer air and surface waters it’s encountering as it drifts slowly away from the White Continent. Ultimately, it will melt and disappear. “We saw waves, a good 3m or 4m high, smashing into the berg,” said expedition leader Ian Strachan. “These were creating cascades of ice…

Inflation is at risk of rising again, according to a leading economist, following attacks on ships using a vital trade route through the Red Sea. Mohamed El-Erian said while disruption to shipments was not as severe as during Covid, he warned it would push up prices and hit economic growth. Several shipping firms have stopped vessels using the Red Sea route after attacks by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Last week, the US and UK launched military strikes against the Houthis. Dr El-Erian, president of Queens’ College, Cambridge and chief economic adviser at financial services giant Allianz, told the BBC’s Today…

Fujitsu is the private company at the heart of the Post Office scandal, which has been described as the biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history. The £20bn Japanese technology company developed the Horizon computer accounting system. The European boss of Fujitsu, Paul Patterson, will face MPs on the Business and Trade select committee at 11:30 GMT on Tuesday. They want to know how faults with the Horizon system saw nearly a thousand Post Office branch managers prosecuted for theft and false accounting. Fujitsu’s long and continued position at the heart of government technology projects began when it acquired a…

Succession, Beef and The Bear were the big winners at the Emmy Awards, which took place on Monday in Los Angeles. Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen all took home acting prizes for Succession, while the show also won best drama series overall. Creator Jesse Armstrong said it was “a great sadness to end the show, but it was a great pleasure to do it”. Also at the ceremony, Sir Elton John won his first Emmy Award, finally giving him EGOT status. That means he has joined an exclusive club of performers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar…

Josef Fritzl, the Austrian sex offender who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, could be moved from a high-security prison, local media reports. Fritzl, now 88, was jailed for life in 2009 in a case that shocked the world. Austrian public broadcaster ORF reports that a new psychiatric report on Fritzl, who has dementia, says he no longer poses a danger to the public. It means a court may now decide whether to move him to a normal prison. Fritzl is being held in a high-security institution for mentally disturbed offenders…

Iran’s Revolutionary Court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional 15 months in prison. Ms Mohammadi has already spent 12 years in jail serving multiple sentences. She is accused of spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic while in prison. Her family condemned the verdict, saying this was her fifth conviction since March 2021. She was not present at the latest trial and the verdict was issued in her absence. Narges Mohammadi has campaigned for human rights in Iran for decades. She has been in and out of jail for two decades because of her activism. She…