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The owner of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook has been slapped with a record fine of €1.2bn (£1.04bn) by the Irish data protection regulator. It...

SpaceX’s second private flight has sent passengers, including Saudi Arabia’s first female astronaut, rocketing towards the International Space Station. The SpaceX Falcon rocket launched...

A woman has been arrested four years after a newborn baby was found abandoned in a plastic bag. Karima Jiwani, 40, faces a number...

Renowned British novelist Martin Amis has died at the age of 73. The author died of oesophageal cancer on Friday at his home in...

The US and its allies plan to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, a White House official has said. The timing for when Ukraine...

The moment a US police officer points a gun at a suspect while kneeling on the bonnet of his moving car – before clinging...

A man has been caught apparently trying to smuggle an eight-and-a-half inch pair of scissors into a jail – by hiding them in his anus....

Harry and Meghan have demanded an agency hand over photos and videos taken by paparazzi during a “chase” in New York earlier this week...

US rapper and actor Ludacris has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  The artist, whose real name is Chris...

The Walt Disney Company has announced it is scrapping plans to build a new campus in central Florida following a year-long dispute with Governor...

Montana has become the first state in the US to ban Chinese-owned popular video-sharing platform TikTok from personal devices. The state’s Republican governor Greg...

“I’m basically a ticking time bomb,” Lori Vallow says with a wide smile and a laugh. She’s speaking at the Mrs Texas beauty pageant...

A suspected drunk driver involved in a crash that killed a bride on her wedding day said she “did nothing wrong” following the incident,...

Elon Musk has announced his new Twitter chief executive – NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino. The billionaire said he was “excited” to announce the hiring...

Title 42 was a law that enabled the US to halt entries into the country to stop the introduction of communicable diseases. It was...

Peru will allow the extradition to the US of the main suspect in the unsolved disappearance of student Natalee Holloway on the Dutch Caribbean...

A 24-year-old US Marine Corps veteran is expected to be charged with manslaughter following the death of a homeless man on a New York...

Thousands of migrants have been making their way to the US border as the Title 42 immigration law changes. The rule, which had enabled...

At the heart of the latest twist in the Trump story is a question you can pose a few different ways. Is there a...