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The ex-husband of a woman who served a lunch that proved fatal to three people has claimed she tried to poison him. Erin Patterson,...

Cats in Cyprus are being given human COVID-19 medicine in an effort to slow the spread of a feline mutation of the virus that...

At least 36 people have died after wildfires rampaged through parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui. Maui County confirmed the deaths after fires,...

Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has been shot and killed by an unidentified gunman while at a political rally in Quito. The killing comes...

At least six people have died after wildfires rampaged through parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui, officials have said. Fires, fuelled by the...

Russia is planning to build up its forces at its western borders following Finland’s accession to NATO, the country’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu has...

The bodies of nine people have been found and two others are feared dead after a fire at a holiday home for disabled people...

Forty-one migrants have been killed in a shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa in Italy, according to local media reports. The ANSA news agency...

If you thought 10,000 steps always sounded like more of an epic quest than a casual stroll, researchers have good news for you. A...

China’s annual inflation rate has dropped to -0.3%, heightening fears the country’s sluggish recovery from COVID could have a wider impact on the global...

Someone in Florida has won a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot – the third-largest ever in US history. The winning numbers drawn were 13,...

Eleven people are missing after a fire broke out at a holiday home for disabled people in eastern France. Seventeen others were led to...

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...