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1. Qarabag vs Newcastle live: Hosts pull goal back after visitors score five in Baku

   Can Newcastle put one foot into the Champions League last 16?

2. Politics live: Trump warns Starmer is making ‘big mistake’ in fresh attack over Chagos Islands deal

   The president warned against the loss of the US-UK military base on Diego Garcia

3. Eight skiers found dead and one still missing after Lake Tahoe avalanche

   Six rescued as crews push through mountainous wilderness in Northern California

4. U2 drops six surprise ‘songs of defiance’ in response to ICE shootings

   Rock band is latest group to release new music in the wake of the deadly Minneapolis ICE shootings

5. JD Vance awkwardly criticises Fox News during live TV appearance

6. FCC requested transcripts of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance

   The Puerto Rican superstar, 31, made history as the first artist to perform a halftime show entirely in Spanish

7. Ukraine peace talks with Russia and US fall apart in less than two hours

   Ukraine tempered expectations going into Geneva talks as Kyiv and Moscow remain far apart on the key issue of territory

8. Ukraine peace talks have been little more than a mafia-style shakedown by the US and Russia

   Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been powered by lies and backed up by the US. World affairs editor Sam Kiley meets some of Putin’s Russian-speaking victims in Pavlohrad, eastern Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky calls out Trump’s ‘unfair’ treatment of his country

9. The ‘breakdancing’ of the Winter Olympics with athletes ‘running like hamsters’: Welcome to ski mountaineering

   The Milano-Cortina Games will be the first to feature ski mountaineering, an Alpine sport which combines fast-paced action with tricky, technical descents. It could be a runaway success - but its introduction has split opinion

10. Kash Patel and Dan Bongino celebrate FBI record on podcast while dodging Epstein controversy

    FBI director and his former deputy reunite on his podcast but ignore looming Epstein scrutiny