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A zoo in China has denied suggestions some of its bears might be people in costumes after photos of the animals standing like humans...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says war is coming to Russia after suspected Ukrainian drones hit skyscrapers in a wealthy Moscow neighbourhood. Vladimir Putin suggested an African...

Niger’s military junta, which has overthrown the country’s elected leader, has claimed the ousted government authorised France to carry out strikes to free the...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has returned to the Women’s World Cup after almost a week away – to make his first appearance of the...

Musical instruments have been thrown on a bonfire in Afghanistan, with the ruling Taliban government declaring music is immoral. Since they seized power in...

David Hunter, the British pensioner who killed his terminally ill wife in Cyprus, has been sentenced to two years after he was found guilty...

At least 40 people have been killed in an explosion at a political rally in northwestern Pakistan, according to reports. The blast happened on...

Vladimir Putin has said an African and a Chinese initiative could serve as a basis for peace in Ukraine, but warned there are things...

Three people have been injured in a shooting at a summer carnival in the Dutch city of Rotterdam. Police say the victims and the...

At least nine people have been hurt after two buildings were hit by blasts in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy...

The ex-British spy who wrote a dossier on Donald Trump and Russian interference in the US election says he believes Vladimir Putin will be...

A five-year-old boy who fatally shot his baby brother in the US was high on cocaine while the toddler had marijuana in his system,...

Singapore has executed a woman for the first time in 19 years. Saridewi Djamani, 45, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly...

The mother of a missing girl who was found after four years has said “miracles do happen”. Alicia Navarro disappeared aged 14 from her...

The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after officials accidentally sent emails containing classified information to a Russian allied country. A “small number”...

Widely discredited around the world, conversion therapy – which aims to change someone’s sexual orientation – is still legal in India but the practise...

Ukraine says it has recaptured the village of Staromaiorske in the occupied Donetsk region. A Ukrainian official tweeted a video of troops holding a...

Prigozhin does not appear to be persona non grata You would have thought Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin would be persona non grata in Russia,...

Ukrainian troops appear to have broken through Russian defensive positions in the south, according to initial reports out of the region. Kyiv’s forces reportedly...