The call between the American president and his Russian counterpart, which lasted just over two hours, represented the culmination of weeks of repeated warnings by Washington to Moscow.

President Joe Biden is expected to warn Russia's President Vladimir Putin there would be consequences for invading Ukraine, a senior administration official said.

Former president Donald Trump came in second place; Russian lawyer Alexei Navalny came in third place.

And what it tells us about the EU.

British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, criticised on Tuesday the "inhumane" responses of the UK and French governments to the Channel migrant crisis. "There is something quite inhumane I think in the...