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Lawmaker charged with ‘breaking into stepmother’s home to steal dad’s ashes’ stripped of committee assignments

Lawmaker charged with ‘breaking into stepmother’s home to steal dad’s ...

2 years ago 401

3 women contract HIV from ‘vampire facials’ in US, in first known cases of transmission through cosmetic injection

3 women contract HIV from ‘vampire facials’ in US, in first known case...

2 years ago 428

Meeting between Trump and DeSantis was about money, not VP selection, sources say

Meeting between Trump and DeSantis was about money, not VP selection, ...

2 years ago 319

Brit tourist, 28, fighting for life after being run over by a lorry in Ibiza

Brit tourist, 28, fighting for life after being run over by a lorry in...

2 years ago 456

Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘generous’ Israeli ceasefire deal in Riyadh visit

Blinken urges Hamas to accept ‘generous’ Israeli ceasefire deal in Riy...

2 years ago 313

Lindsey Graham jumps to Trump’s defence over hush money trial: ‘I think the whole thing is a crock’

Lindsey Graham jumps to Trump’s defence over hush money trial: ‘I thin...

2 years ago 424

Saudi Arabia insists first part of $500bn NEOM Megacity WILL be open this year with ultra-lux island resort

Saudi Arabia insists first part of $500bn NEOM Megacity WILL be open t...

2 years ago 401

Utah family reunited with cat mailed hundreds of miles away in Amazon return box

Utah family reunited with cat mailed hundreds of miles away in Amazon ...

2 years ago 505

Hong Kong business sector, lawmakers hail minimum wage formula, but economist warns over risks of potential price spiral

Hong Kong business sector, lawmakers hail minimum wage formula, but ec...

2 years ago 364

China should bail on US bonds even faster, scholar says, as bilateral tensions and anxieties mount

China should bail on US bonds even faster, scholar says, as bilateral ...

2 years ago 475

Latvians told to turn basements into bomb shelters amid fears Russia could target Baltic states next

Latvians told to turn basements into bomb shelters amid fears Russia c...

2 years ago 460

Incredible abandoned VHS store left frozen in time for 20 years after owner died is throwback to world before Netflix

Incredible abandoned VHS store left frozen in time for 20 years after ...

2 years ago 294

Putin puts captured British armoured cars and American tanks on display after they were captured in Ukraine

Putin puts captured British armoured cars and American tanks on displa...

2 years ago 385

Israel-Gaza war: 40-day ceasefire offered to Hamas, says UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron

Israel-Gaza war: 40-day ceasefire offered to Hamas, says UK Foreign Se...

2 years ago 363

Tornado leaves homes and businesses flattened as at least three dead in Oklahoma

Tornado leaves homes and businesses flattened as at least three dead i...

2 years ago 350

Bernie Sanders expresses support for pro-Palestine protests

Bernie Sanders expresses support for pro-Palestine protests

2 years ago 563

Watch: 13ft python that ate cat before clogging water pipe removed by snake catchers

Watch: 13ft python that ate cat before clogging water pipe removed by ...

2 years ago 515

How 5G, AI and a cotton revolution helped China beat US Xinjiang sanctions

How 5G, AI and a cotton revolution helped China beat US Xinjiang sanct...

2 years ago 473

At least 45 dead including 17 children as dam bursts in Kenya sweeping away houses in thick mud after weeks of storms

At least 45 dead including 17 children as dam bursts in Kenya sweeping...

2 years ago 288

Russian citizen arrested on suspicion of stabbing Ukraine soldiers to death in Germany

Russian citizen arrested on suspicion of stabbing Ukraine soldiers to ...

2 years ago 434

Singapore-Indonesia leaders’ retreat sets stage for successors, with ‘more active’ engagement expected

Singapore-Indonesia leaders’ retreat sets stage for successors, with ‘...

2 years ago 407

320kg of ketamine discovered inside life-size Transformers robots

320kg of ketamine discovered inside life-size Transformers robots

2 years ago 303

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 5-11

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 5-11

2 years ago 386

Man arrested for child abduction after teen child of billionaire tech entrepreneurs found in van 6 days after running away

Man arrested for child abduction after teen child of billionaire tech ...

2 years ago 328

Pedro Sanchez says he will continue as Spain’s prime minister as wife investigated over corruption claims

Pedro Sanchez says he will continue as Spain’s prime minister as wife ...

2 years ago 512

Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war roil US campuses ahead of graduations

Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war roil US campuses ahead of g...

2 years ago 376

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis ‘make amends’ during private Miami meeting following bitter primary feud

Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis ‘make amends’ during private Miami meeti...

2 years ago 517

China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar to OpenAI tool, though much shorter

China unveils Sora challenger able to produce videos from text similar...

2 years ago 473

A coat hanger or ‘tiny screwdriver’ could be used to unlock room where Trump allegedly kept classified documents

A coat hanger or ‘tiny screwdriver’ could be used to unlock room where...

2 years ago 352

Putin has lost 450,000 soldiers, 3,000 tanks & vehicles and nearly 500 aircraft in Ukraine, says UK intelligence

Putin has lost 450,000 soldiers, 3,000 tanks & vehicles and nearly 500...

2 years ago 493

Moment Miss Ecuador beauty queen, 23, is gunned down in hail of bullets by assassins after being linked to gang boss

Moment Miss Ecuador beauty queen, 23, is gunned down in hail of bullet...

2 years ago 556

Hong Kong to update heat stress at work warnings after monitoring index for longer

Hong Kong to update heat stress at work warnings after monitoring inde...

2 years ago 375

Trump too ‘busy taking himself down’ for Biden to need a big political strategy against him, ex-staffer says

Trump too ‘busy taking himself down’ for Biden to need a big political...

2 years ago 443

Officials convicted over Greece’s deadliest fire freed after paying fines

Officials convicted over Greece’s deadliest fire freed after paying fi...

2 years ago 294

Hong Kong appeal court blocks Jimmy Lai from challenging foreign counsel ban

Hong Kong appeal court blocks Jimmy Lai from challenging foreign couns...

2 years ago 321

Blinken says Hamas must decide quickly on ‘extraordinarily generous’ Israel offer; aid to Gaza must be increased

Blinken says Hamas must decide quickly on ‘extraordinarily generous’ I...

2 years ago 347

Airline suspends major flight route for a MONTH due to Putin’s GPS jammers amid fears e-weapons could cause disaster

Airline suspends major flight route for a MONTH due to Putin’s GPS jam...

2 years ago 423

Everyone can see the revellers at the festival but you have 20/20 vision if you can spot 5 guitars in less than 9 secs

Everyone can see the revellers at the festival but you have 20/20 visi...

2 years ago 300

Father of Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen charged with abusing one of his other children, lawyer says

Father of Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen charged with abusing one of hi...

2 years ago 386

Europe planning new ‘nuclear umbrella’ with 300 French nuke missiles spread across continent for showdown with Russia

Europe planning new ‘nuclear umbrella’ with 300 French nuke missiles s...

2 years ago 731

French movie legend Gerard Depardieu, 75, taken into custody over claims he ‘sexually assaulted two women on film set’

French movie legend Gerard Depardieu, 75, taken into custody over clai...

2 years ago 418

Elon Musk’s Tesla and Baidu join forces to build cars that will drive themselves in China

Elon Musk’s Tesla and Baidu join forces to build cars that will drive ...

2 years ago 509

Grizzly bears to be reintroduced to Washington state after years of bitter argument

Grizzly bears to be reintroduced to Washington state after years of bi...

2 years ago 501

Spanish PM decides not to quit despite corruption claims against wife

Spanish PM decides not to quit despite corruption claims against wife

2 years ago 318

Two dead and one injured after 350,000-pound load detaches from trailer in Texas

Two dead and one injured after 350,000-pound load detaches from traile...

2 years ago 439

Dozens killed after dam collapses in Kenya as floods cause widespread devastation

Dozens killed after dam collapses in Kenya as floods cause widespread ...

2 years ago 296

Israeli officials concerned about possible ICC arrest warrants as pressure mounts over war in Gaza

Israeli officials concerned about possible ICC arrest warrants as pres...

2 years ago 325

Putin parades captured British armoured cars & American tanks in Moscow in new exhibition glorifying Ukraine invasion

Putin parades captured British armoured cars & American tanks in Mosco...

2 years ago 349

Zebra on the loose near Seattle interstate after four escape from trailer

Zebra on the loose near Seattle interstate after four escape from trai...

2 years ago 536

Thinking Global Podcast – Danny Dorling

Thinking Global Podcast – Danny Dorling

2 years ago 345

Horrified witness who saw Brit Peter Smith, 64, mauled by shark reveals tourists tried to fight off 10ft beast in water

Horrified witness who saw Brit Peter Smith, 64, mauled by shark reveal...

2 years ago 507

Israel fears Benjamin Netanyahu will face ARREST over Gaza war with ‘warrant being prepared by international court’

Israel fears Benjamin Netanyahu will face ARREST over Gaza war with ‘w...

2 years ago 604

Who are the Reichsbuergers? Far-right plotters who tried to overthrow German government standing trial

Who are the Reichsbuergers? Far-right plotters who tried to overthrow ...

2 years ago 456

At least 14 killed & 31 injured in horror Mexico bus crash in tourist hotspot after vehicle overturned & crashed

At least 14 killed & 31 injured in horror Mexico bus crash in tourist ...

2 years ago 329

IDF give update on Gaza aid efforts as Rafah assault expected within days

IDF give update on Gaza aid efforts as Rafah assault expected within d...

2 years ago 373

Dramatic moment motorists try to rescue family from burning EV after horror crash before flames engulf car killing three

Dramatic moment motorists try to rescue family from burning EV after h...

2 years ago 564

Blinken is back in the Middle East this week. He has his work cut out for him

Blinken is back in the Middle East this week. He has his work cut out ...

2 years ago 367

Panama's leading presidential candidate is a late entry promising a return to better times

Panama's leading presidential candidate is a late entry promising a re...

2 years ago 411

World Central Kitchen Will Resume Operations in Gaza

World Central Kitchen Will Resume Operations in Gaza

2 years ago 326

Hong Kong minimum wage to increase by 4.5% to HK$41.8 per hour this year

Hong Kong minimum wage to increase by 4.5% to HK$41.8 per hour this ye...

2 years ago 561