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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of those who died after a bus fell from a bridge and crashed into a river on Christmas Eve,...

About 10 people are missing, potentially buried, following an avalanche in western Austria, local media has reported. One person has been rescued following the...

Combat medic Myroslav Mardarevych is hunched over a desk in the foyer of St Sophia Cathedral in central Kyiv. He has just come from...

Several groups providing aid in Afghanistan have suspended their operations, after the Taliban ruled women could no longer work for non-governmental organisations with immediate...

The Taliban have banned Afghan women from working at non-governmental organisations in the country. The letter said female employees would not be allowed to...

At least 28 people have died in the US as the country grapples with a brutal winter storm. Blizzard conditions have left almost 380,000...

Protesters have clashed with police in Paris during demonstrations after three people were shot dead at a Kurdish cultural centre. Kurdish activists, left-wing politicians...

The Pope has used his Christmas Eve mass to rebuke those who are “ravenous” for wealth and power and decry war, poverty and consumerism....

Nine people have died in the US as the country grapples with a winter storm that has seen temperatures plunge as low as -45C...

Three people have been killed and three others injured after a gunman opened fire in Paris. A man, 69, has been arrested in connection...

Spanish police have arrested one of the FBI’s most wanted during a raid in Madrid. The man, said to originate from New Zealand, is...

Donald Trump was engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election, according to a report by US...

In her sunshine yellow coat, a 17-year-old girl clambered on top of a car and threw her hands in the air – fingers spread...

In a bunker below the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut, a jihadi commander with a half a million-dollar Russian bounty on his head, joins...

A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people...

This may be the last ever image sent from NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft. After a four-year mission on the red planet, the robotic lander...

A French murderer who admitted to killing several western tourists is due to be set free from prison in Nepal after the country’s supreme...

A Guinea-born Italian rugby star who was given a rotten banana in his club’s Secret Santa says he has accepted an apology – but...

The US will continue to back Ukraine in its fight against Russia for “as long as it takes”, President Joe Biden has said while...