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Around 8,000 flights were cancelled globally between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day as airlines experienced staff shortages due to COVID-19. Approximately 3,000 of the...

Hundreds of flights have been called off for a third day in a row in the US as the Omicron variant of COVID continues...

A surfer has been killed in an “apparent shark attack” off the central coast of California on Christmas Eve, authorities have said. The surfer,...

A White House Christmas event took an awkward turn on Friday when a caller dropped a vulgar anti-Biden slogan into a conversation with the...

Former England striker Daniel Sturridge has been ordered to pay $30,000 (£22,400) to a man who found his missing dog. Sturridge, 32, offered a...

A 14-year-old girl has been shot and killed in a Los Angeles clothing shop’s dressing room after police opened fire on an assault suspect....

A former US police officer who said she mistakenly fired her gun instead of her Taser in the fatal shooting of a man has...

Ghislaine Maxwell will spend her 60th birthday in prison after the jury deliberating her fate was sent home for Christmas. The former girlfriend of...

A former US senator and his wife have been taken to hospital after their $5.5m mansion was destroyed in a fire. Charles ‘Chuck’ Robb,...

The US government is buying 500 million at-home rapid COVID tests that Americans will be able to order online for free starting in January,...

A group of missionaries, who trekked for up to 10 miles by moonlight with a baby and a toddler to escape their kidnappers in...

Omicron is now the dominant form of coronavirus in the US and made up 73% of new cases last week, according to federal health...

Footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in Florida has been shown in court as the closing arguments of Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial take place. The video...

Dr Anthony Fauci says Omicron is “raging around the world” as he warned of the increased risk posed to unvaccinated people. President Joe Biden’s...

Joe Biden has visited the graves of his first wife and infant daughter, as he marks 49 years since they were killed in a...

An 18-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy managed to escape a burning building in New York by climbing out a window and scaling down...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team at her trial has tried to discredit her accusers by suggesting there were discrepancies between the statements they gave to...

A man was kicked off a flight in the US for wearing women’s underwear as a face mask. In footage taken by another passenger...

Partial human remains found nearly 40 years ago in a bin bag have been confirmed as those of Frank Little Jr – a former...