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Pope Francis has been honoured with America’s highest civilian award by President Joe Biden, who has described the pontiff as “a light of faith,...

On 19 December, 80-year-old Palestinian grandmother Halima Abu Leil was shot in an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid on her neighbourhood in Balata refugee...

Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy has met Israel’s prime minister in an effort to secure a ceasefire deal in Gaza before the president-elect takes...

Pope Francis has been honoured with America’s highest civilian award by President Joe Biden, who has described the pontiff as “a light of faith,...

And so now it is certain. Alice Weidel will lead her far-right party into Germany’s general election next month. She was overwhelmingly backed at...

Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. The injured pair are now in Kyiv...

Details are starting to emerge of the victims of the Los Angeles fires – and at least two died trying to protect the homes...

They are the displaced and there are tens of thousands of them, 600 in an evacuation centre we visited. From elderly people who fled...

The fires that have been raging in Los Angeles County this week may be the “most destructive” in modern US history. In just three...

Given gilt yields are rising, the pound is falling and, all things considered, markets look pretty hairy back in the UK, it’s quite likely...

Donald Trump has been handed a no-penalty sentence following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. The incoming US president has received...

The US has announced it has increased its reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. In a statement, the...

Donald Trump has been handed a no-penalty sentence following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. The incoming US president has received...

Donald Trump says a meeting is being set up between himself and Vladimir Putin – and that he and Barack Obama “probably” like each...

Last year was the warmest on record, the first to breach a symbolic threshold, and brought with it deadly impacts like flooding and drought,...

Photographs have captured the moments after a baby girl was born on a packed migrant dinghy heading for the Canary Islands. The small boat...

A real-life drama is unfolding just outside Hollywood. Ferocious wildfires have ballooned at an “alarming speed”, in just a matter of hours. Why? What...

A body has been found in the search for two missing British hikers who went missing in the Dolomites, Italy’s alpine rescue has said....

Pacific Palisades is one of Los Angeles’s most expensive and exclusive suburbs, home to film stars and billionaires. The broad boulevards are framed by...