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Actor and director Olivia Wilde was seemingly unruffled after being handed child custody documents while appearing on stage at an event in Las Vegas.She was delivering a presentation on Tuesday when a brown envelope was handed to her. Opening it, she discovered it contained custody papers from her f...
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One of Germany's biggest energy firms has said it is preparing to buy Russian gas using a payment system that critics say will undermine EU sanctions.Uniper says it will pay in euros which will be converted into roubles, meeting a Kremlin demand for all transactions to be made in the Russian cur...
Human rights groups have criticised an Egyptian court for jailing two popular singers over a video they made with a Brazilian belly dancer.In the clip, they are seen lip-synching and smiling as the dancer, in a long dress and jacket, performs her moves.The video was a YouTube hit in 2020 and has clo...
The White House has proposed giving the government greater power to seize and sell the assets of Russian oligarchs, and transfer their proceeds to Ukraine.The legislative proposal, released on Thursday morning, will be presented to Congress for consideration.The measures would make it easier for the...
Johnny Depp has said text messages he sent about burning and drowning his former partner Amber Heard were a joke based on a Monty Python sketch.Testifying before a Virginia court on Monday, the actor said he was "ashamed" of the messages, and that they were an attempt at humour.Mr Depp, 58...
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The Taliban has ordered a ban on video-sharing app TikTok and online multi-player game PUBG, insisting they were leading Afghan youths "astray".The militant group said it would also ban TV channels from airing what it deemed as "immoral material".It comes after recent bans on mus...
National,Front Page
South Africa's government has declared a state of disaster in an area in the east of the country which was hit by severe flooding over the past week, leaving nearly 400 people dead and causing major damage to homes and businesses.Most of the destruction has been in the Durban area of KwaZulu-Nat...
Indian fans were disappointed to find iconic singer Lata Mangeshkar's name missing from the Grammys' In Memoriam section on Monday.Mangeshkar, one of India's most beloved and prolific singers, died in Mumbai city in February.Often called the "nightingale of Bollywood", she sang...
About two dozen, mainly female, protesters gathered close to the Taliban's Ministry of Education on Saturday morning, calling on the group to reopen girls' secondary schools.The Taliban have been widely condemned for issuing a last-minute U-turn earlier this week, ordering them to close, jus...
Ukrainian forces are battling Russian troops on the streets of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, according to local officials.Regional governor Oleh Sinegubov said light vehicles had entered the city, as he urged its 1.4 million residents to stay indoors.The advance came after missiles rained down ...
Scientists can't pinpoint the exact year that an asteroid came out of the sky to wipe out the dinosaurs but they're sure now that the huge space rock struck Earth in the Northern Hemisphere springtime.And they think the seasonal timing may have been a critical factor that influenced which an...
Scientists say that a rapid drop in emissions because of Covid played a key role in record rainfall in China in 2020.The decline in greenhouse gases and small particles called aerosols caused atmospheric changes that intensified the downpours.Hundreds of people died and millions more were evacuated ...
World,Front Page
A black delivery driver in Mississippi who says he was pursued and shot at by two white men while on the job has argued that they should face hate crime charges.D'Monterrio Gibson, 24, compared his case that of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was murdered while jogging."I feel it's my re...
French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Russian Covid test ahead of his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin has confirmed.The test required a health protocol that was unacceptable and did not fit with the French leader's schedule, a French source told the BBC.It follows...
Over the next month, elections will be held in five Indian states, but all eyes are on the key battleground of Uttar Pradesh.Commonly known by its initials UP, the state is India's most populous, with an estimated 240 million people.If it were a separate country, UP would be the fifth-large...
French President Emmanuel Macron has told reporters that President Vladimir Putin assured him that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine's borders."I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation," he said before meeting Ukraine's leader.Howe...
Huge plumes of the warming gas methane have been mapped globally for the first time from oil and gas fields using satellites.Plugging these leaks would be an important step in buying extra time to curb climate change.The new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 mile...
Another Conservative MP has called for Boris Johnson to resign as the turmoil at 10 Downing Street continues.Former minister Nick Gibb is the latest Tory to submit a letter of no confidence in the row over events held at No 10 during lockdown.He said his constituents were furious that No 10 had been...
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has dismissed claims by Donald Trump that he could have stopped Joe Biden becoming president last year.In his strongest rebuttal yet, he said Mr Trump was wrong to suggest he had had the right to overturn the election.Separately the Republican Party censured two o...
Rescuers who are desperately trying to reach a five-year-old boy who fell into a deep well in Morocco are entering the final stages of their operation.They worked through the night to reach the boy, named by local media as Rayan, who plunged 32m (104ft) through the well's narrow opening four day...
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