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The blossoming relationship between Donald Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has abruptly turned sour. After the heady days of the "Howdy Modi" event in Houston, and the mega "Namaste Trump" show in Ahmedabad, where a stadium was packed with over 100,000 people to...

Norway has agreed to buy five new British warships in a deal worth £10bn, the Ministry of Defence has announced. The planned purchase of the Type 26 frigates built in Glasgow comes as the two nations seek to deepen their co-operation in countering Russian operations...

Nine people have been killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan. The earthquake struck the east of the country near the Pakistan border at 11.47pm local time (8.17pm UK time) on Sunday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said. At least nine people were killed...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Iran of organising two antisemitic attacks in Australia. Mr Albanese said the Australian security intelligence organisation (ASIO) found that the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on a kosher food company in Sydney and on a Melbourne synagogue...

Nadav is tired, frustrated and haunted, yet he smiles when we meet. For 690 days, he has been waiting for the world to change, and he's still waiting, and hoping. Back on 7 October 2023, his father Tal was seized by Hamas and taken to...

A suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously injured a third in Australia's rural south-east has been identified, police said.  A manhunt is underway for Dezi Freeman, 56, who is heavily armed and experienced in wilderness survival skills, Victoria state's chief commissioner...

Brittany Cartwright’s new boyfriend has seemingly brought in new trouble into her life after she wanted a new start following her divorce with Jax Taylor. The 36-year-old reality star confirmed her relationship with Brandon Hanson last week, and shortly afterwards his wife launched a social...

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated, and airports and schools closed after a typhoon made landfall in Vietnam. Typhoon Kajiki, which has winds of up to 103mph, hit Vietnam's north central coast on Monday, toppling trees, flooding homes, and cutting power supplies, state...

It is an innocuous term for a horrible tactic. A "double tap" sounds so innocent and unthreatening. In fact, it is a term saved for a particularly brutal kind of attack. And so it seems was the fate of those who died in the Nasser...

Margot Robbie's 10-month-old baby boy made a memorable appearance during an interview with Access Hollywood, where he inadvertently stole the spotlight with his loud babbling.  The actress, who welcomed her first child with husband Tom Ackerley in October 2024, couldn't help but laugh at her...

Margot Robbie has revealed that her path as Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey nearly crossed with Colin Farrell’s take on Oswald Cobblepot, long before the two shared the screen in their new film A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Speaking with Farrell in an interview...

Downing Street has warned that if novelist Sally Rooney gives money to the outlawed organization Palestine Action, she might be charged with terrorism under UK law. Prior to the group's proscription as a terrorist organization in the UK on July 5, the award-winning Irish author...