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Sinead O’Connor has been remembered as a singer and activist whose “voice moved a generation of young people”, as stars including U2’s Bono and...

It’s twice the size of India, spread across eight countries, a territory, and home to over 16,000 tree species – the Amazon rainforest is...

A YouTube chef has been charged with murdering and dismembering a Colombian surgeon on a Thai island. Daniel Sancho Bronchalo has been charged with...

A woman has been left in a critical condition after she was attacked by a shark off one of New York City’s most popular...

Thousands of scouts from around the world have begun moving from their campsite on South Korea’s coast to inland venues ahead of a tropical...

Sinead O’Connor’s family has invited people to line the seafront at Bray in County Wicklow and say “a last goodbye” during her funeral procession....

“Tumbling” records in Antarctica must be taken more seriously because of their “cascading” global impacts, a group of scientists asked by the Foreign Office...

A Malaysian festival has threatened legal action against The 1975 after the band’s frontman Matty Healy made a speech about homosexuality and kissed bassist...

Another Russian warship listing in the water is probably not the image Vladimir Putin had in mind for his beloved Black Sea fleet –...

Dramatic footage shows people being rescued from choppy seas in the Mediterranean – as reports emerge that a mother and her one-year-old child have...

At least 30 people have been killed and 60 are injured after a train derailed in Pakistan. The incident took place near the town...

“I cannot carry on God, please help me,” a mother says as she struggles to understand what has happened to her family. Her pain...

At least 15 people have been killed and more than 50 are injured after a train derailed in Pakistan. The incident took place near...

A deadline for Niger’s coup leaders to stand down and reinstate the country’s elected president has arrived. The Economic Community of West African States...

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has spent the night in a high-security prison after he was handed a three-year jail term for illegally...

A Russian bomb has hit a blood transfusion centre in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed. On Telegram, the Ukrainian president...

One of Italy’s 100 most dangerous fugitives has been captured after 11 years – after watching a Napoli match in a Greek restaurant. Vincenzo...

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been arrested after he was sentenced to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, his...

Ukraine is embroiled in a fight for its very survival as an independent state. Although Moscow is able to strike Ukrainian territory with impunity,...