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China has intensified its COVID restrictions and lockdowns as its daily infection figures climbed to a record high. On Wednesday it recorded 31,444 new...

As if there weren’t other things for Russian MPs to worry about nine months into the Kremlin’s war with Ukraine. But as their president...

In Beijing, business after business is bolted shut. The authorities won’t use the word, but this city is essentially in lockdown. In a number...

Many football fans will not have seen a game with as much stoppage time as in England’s 6-2 win over Iran. Nearly half an...

At least one person has died after two explosions at bus stops in Jerusalem in what Israeli police say was a suspected Palestinian attack....

Several people have died and others injured in a shooting at a Walmart store in Virginia, police say. It happened in the city of...

As Ukrainian battlefield victories continue with the liberation of the city of Kherson, the spotlight once more falls upon the question of Crimea. In...

A tourist has gone viral after a TikTok video captured her trespassing up the ancient Mayan Temple of Kukulcan in Mexico and a crowd...

It’s nearly 20 years since the American tycoon Malcolm Glazer bought his first stake in Manchester United – now his family’s controversial tenure at...

Argentina have become the latest side to suffer a shock World Cup defeat – but how does it compare to some of the previous...

A journalist reporting on the World Cup in Qatar claims local police hassled him outside a stadium after mistaking his regional Brazilian flag for...

Many children killed when their schools collapsed are among the 268 dead following an earthquake that devastated a town in Indonesia, officials have said....

It was a day that football fans back home had been dreaming of. Wales, in their first World Cup for 64 years; England, getting...

The main roads that run into the district of Haizhu stood almost silent this morning. While such arterial roads would usually be teeming with...

At least 46 people have been killed following an earthquake in Indonesia. Around 700 people have also been injured in the 5.6 magnitude quake....

Twelve years ago, Qatar was awarded the World Cup and scrutiny has barely let up since. But on Sunday evening, after a build-up as...

As Iran’s national football team prepares to face England in their opening World Cup match later, they do so as protests over the death...

In the backstreets of Albania’s capital city, Tirana, there is little light and even less hope. The warren of alleyways we are being guided...

For the first time in history countries have agreed on a dedicated fund to pay out for extreme climate damages in vulnerable regions, finally...