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It's described as the biggest divorce case in British legal history - a settlement of more than £500m involving the billionaire ruler of Dubai and his estranged wife.The UK's High Court on Tuesday awarded a lump sum settlement of £251.5m to Princess Haya Bint Al-Hussain - the 47-...
The Myanmar military carried out a series of mass killings of civilians in July that resulted in the deaths of at least 40 men, a BBC investigation has found.Eyewitnesses and survivors said that soldiers, some as young as 17, rounded up villagers before separating the men and killing them. Video foo...
Business & Commerce
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime Group has relaunched its $767m (£580m) Hong Kong share sale.The announcement comes a week after the listing was pulled as Americans were banned from investing in the firm.Washington has accused SenseTime of developing facial recognition softwa...
At least one person in the UK has died with the Omicron coronavirus variant, the prime minister has said.Boris Johnson said the new variant was also resulting in hospital admissions and the "best thing" people could do was get their booster jab.Visiting a vaccination clinic in London, he s...
US rescue teams are racing to locate dozens of people after tornadoes devastated towns across Kentucky, with at least 50 confirmed deaths.With many residents of one small town unaccounted for, families are still awaiting news of loved ones.State governor Andy Beshear warned the death toll could pass...
World
The World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended distribution of food aid in two northern Ethiopian towns after gunmen looted its warehouses.Looters from rebel Tigrayan forces held aid staff at gunpoint in the town of Kombolcha, the United Nations said.They stole large quantities of essential food suppl...
Indian farmers have said they are ending a year of mass protests a week after the government agreed to abandon controversial agricultural reforms.Thousands of farmers had camped at the borders of the capital, Delhi, with dozens dying from heat, cold and Covid. They will begin returning to their home...
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The new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, was present in the Netherlands earlier than previously thought, officials say.It was identified in two test samples taken in the country between 19 and 23 November, which is before the variant was first reported by South Africa.It is not clear whether those who too...
A third of employees in Australia's federal parliament have been sexually harassed, a landmark report has found.The report was commissioned after a former staffer, Brittany Higgins, said she had been raped by a colleague in a minister's office.Her story earlier this year triggered a wave of ...
South Africa has complained it is being punished - instead of applauded - for discovering Omicron, a concerning new variant of Covid-19.The foreign ministry made the statement as countries around the world restrict travel from southern African countries as details of the spread emerged.Early evidenc...
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The latest is the most heavily mutated version discovered so far - and it has such a long list of mutations that it was described by one scientist as "horrific", while another told me it was the worst variant they'd seen.It is early days and the confirmed cases are still mostly concent...
A general from the United Arab Emirates who has been accused of complicity in torture has been elected president of the global police agency Interpol.Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi, inspector general of the UAE's interior ministry, will serve a four-year term in the part-time and unpaid role.Human rights...
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Sweden's first ever female prime minister has resigned just hours after she was appointed.Magdalena Andersson, was announced as leader on Wednesday but resigned after her coalition partner quit the government and her budget failed to pass. Instead, parliament voted for a budget drawn up by the o...
China has said the controversy surrounding tennis star Peng Shuai has been "maliciously hyped up", in its most direct response to the issue yet.Ms Peng disappeared from the public eye for almost three weeks after making sexual assault allegations against China's former vice premier, tr...
Women have been banned from appearing in television dramas in Afghanistan under new rules imposed by the Taliban government.Female journalists and presenters have also been ordered to wear headscarves on screen, although the guidelines do not say which type of covering to use.Reporters say some of t...
The World Health Organization (WHO) is "very worried" about the spread of Covid-19 within Europe as the continent battles a fresh wave of infections.Speaking to the BBC, regional director Dr Hans Kluge warned that some 500,000 more deaths could be recorded by March unless urgent action is ...
Rolls-Royce believes its Spirit of Innovation plane could be the world's fastest all-electric aircraft.The firm - whose aerospace headquarters are based in Derby - said the plane reached a top speed of 387.4 mph (623 km/h) during test runs at an experimental aircraft testing site.It is thought t...
The boss of the world's second biggest airline has said that tackling climate change will make flying more expensive."Over time, it's going to cost us all more, but it's the right approach that we must take," Delta Air Lines chief executive Ed Bastian told the BBC.Aviation is r...
AstraZeneca has started to move away from providing its Covid-19 vaccine to countries on a not-for-profit basis.The drugs giant has signed a series of for-profit agreements for next year, and expects to make a modest income from the vaccine, it said.The company had previously said it would only star...
Belarus's leader has threatened to cut-off gas supplies to Europe if sanctions are imposed over an escalating migrant crisis at the country's border.Thousands of people are at the border with Poland, where they are enduring freezing conditions in the hope of crossing into the European Union....
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