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Donald Trump has said a deal for Ukraine’s rare earth metals is “pretty close” and the US is targeting “anything we can get” in exchange for the aid it’s provided. Mr Trump told a conference he was determined to get payback for billions of dollars of military hardware...
Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this is a “significant moment” for European security amid the continued fallout between the Ukrainian leader and Donald Trump. In a phone call this morning, the prime minister reiterated the UK’s “ironclad support” for Ukraine a...
A suspected drugs boss known as “The Fly” has been recaptured nine months after escaping during an ambush that killed two French prison officers. Mohamed Amra was arrested in Romania on Saturday, said France’s interior minister on X. Bruno Retailleau congratulated those who detained th...
One person has been killed and two police officers seriously injured in a knife attack in eastern France. A man attacked people in Mulhouse, near the German border, at around 4pm on Saturday. Prosecutors said a 37-year-old Algerian had been arrested and the person who died was a civilian who tried to in...
A man whose credit card was stolen and used to buy a winning lottery ticket is appealing for the thieves to come forward – so they can split the cash. The thieves bought a winning €500,000 (£414,000) scratchcard with the stolen card in the French city of Toulouse. But the ticket has not been subm...
The man arrested for stabbing a Spanish tourist at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial is a 19-year-old Syrian refugee, according to prosecutors. They said it appeared he’d been planning to kill Jewish people for several weeks and was apparently motivated by the Middle East conflict. The attack happ...
Six Israeli hostages have been handed over by Hamas on Saturday, while hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are due to be released. The Gaza ceasefire deal continues to hold, despite tensions rising this week when Hamas initially handed over the body of an unidentified Palestinian woman instead of Israeli...
A British skier has been found dead at the bottom of a cliff in the French Alps. The body of the 23-year-old man has not yet been formally identified and the circumstances of his death are being investigated, authorities say. He was found on Monday near the Avoriaz ski resort near the town of Morzine, ....
The US is “with” Ukraine and any deal to end the fighting with Russia should ensure there is no “next war”, President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Kyiv and Moscow has said. Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg’s comments, on a visit to a Ukrainian military hospital on...
The Vatican has said Pope Francis “rested well” as he remains in hospital. The 88-year-old was taken to Rome’s Gemelli hospital more than a week ago. He is being treated for double pneumonia and chronic bronchitis. Doctors on Friday said he was “not out of danger” but was n...
A Hawaii man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder celebrated “Freedom Friday” after a judge ordered him to be released because of new DNA evidence. There were gasps and cries when Judge Kirstin Hamman said “the sentence is vacated and the defendant is ordered to be released from c...
A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, does not enter human cells as readily as SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, the scientists reported in the journal Cell. However, they found that the bat virus us...
A new trial for Lyle and Erik Menendez, after 35 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, has been turned down by the Los Angeles County District Attorney. However, Nathan Hochman said a decision had not been made on a resentencing bid that could lead to their release. The brothers were...
Steve Bannon has denied making a Nazi salute at a conservative gathering, insisting the gesture was just a wave. The one-time chief strategist for Donald Trump was onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Thursday evening. During his speech, he extended his right arm in the...
Hamas says the body of hostage Shiri Bibas has now been handed over, according to the group’s Al-Aqsa TV channel – as the Israeli military says it is checking the reports. It comes a day after Israel said Ms Bibas was not among the four bodies handed over on Thursday and that it received an...
Hamas says the body of hostage Shiri Bibas has now been handed over, according to the group’s Al-Aqsa TV channel – as the Israeli military says it is checking the reports. It comes a day after Israel said Ms Bibas was not among the four bodies handed over on Thursday and that it received an...
A man has been found guilty of attempted murder over an attack on author Sir Salman Rushdie. The 77-year-old British-American writer was stabbed multiple times as he was preparing to give a speech in New York in 2022. He was blinded in his right eye in the incident, suffered a severely damaged hand, and...
A suspect has been arrested after a man was seriously injured in an attack at the Berlin Holocaust memorial. Police said he was attacked at about 6pm local time – with local media reporting it was a stabbing. A person was arrested near the scene and their identity is being checked, police said on...
Pope Francis is “not out of danger” and will remain in hospital for at least one more week, doctors treating him have said. However, in their first in-person update a week after the pontiff was taken to hospital, doctors have also said he was not at risk of death. Sergio Alfieri, the chief o...
Passengers have reported a suspected norovirus outbreak on a P&O cruise ship off the coast of Belgium. One passenger on the P&O Iona told Sky News “people have been dropping like flies”, with “a large number” of guests and staff experiencing symptoms. “People [were]...
Irish police are investigating after what is believed to be a severed hand was discovered near a school in Dublin. Officers were alerted to the discovery of “partial human remains” at the premises in Darndale, in the northern suburbs of Dublin, on Friday afternoon. Gardai said: “The re...
There is no doubt that further feverish behind-the-scenes mediation to try and ensure the ceasefire remains on track – and that Saturday’s exchange goes ahead. Hamas says as much, that it has “received the occupation’s allegations and claims from the mediators” and will exa...
Northern Ireland’s first minister will not attend the White House for its traditional St Patrick’s Day celebration in protest at the “injustice” of Donald Trump’s recent comments on Gaza. Michelle O’Neill, who is also the vice president of Sinn Fein, will be joined by...
A passenger train has hit a herd of elephants near a wildlife sanctuary in Sri Lanka, killing six of the animals. Four babies and two adults died near Minneriya, about 124 miles from the capital, Colombo. No passengers were injured. Local television channels showed the train engine and several compartme...
Elon Musk has had a heated exchange with famed astronaut Andreas Mogensen who accused has him of lying over claims that two NASA astronauts had been “left” in space. Speaking during a pre-recorded interview with US President Donald Trump on Fox News, Mr Musk alleged the astronauts had been...
The Birkenstock sandal is recognisable for its big buckles, wide-straps, and cork-made sole. But the shoes do not qualify as works of art, Germany’s highest civil court has ruled. The German shoe company had filed a lawsuit against three competitors who sold sandals that were similar to its own, b...
Canada’s prime minister has hit out at Donald Trump’s comments about annexing the country, saying “you can’t take our country, and you can’t take our game”, in the wake of a major ice hockey win. On Thursday, Canada beat the United States to win the 4 Nations hockey t...
Pope Francis, who has been in hospital with an infection in both lungs, has had a good night, the Vatican said – as a cardinal suggested the pontiff could resign. In a brief update on his health, the Vatican said the 88-year-old got up and had breakfast following his seventh night at the Gemelli h...
Hamas has named six Israeli hostages who are set to be released on Saturday while Israel is expected to release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners as part of a ceasefire agreement between the parties. The hostages due for release are Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov, Tal Shoham, Omer Wenkert, Hisham al-Sayed...
A Spanish photographer has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year for his picture of a humpback whale and her newborn calf in French Polynesia. Alvaro Herrero beat more than 6,750 other entries to take home this year’s prize. His photo shows “a mother’s love and communicates t...
Israel says Hamas has not handed over the body of hostage Shiri Bibas – saying they had instead received the remains of an “anonymous body without identification”. Ms Bibas was kidnapped with her sons – four-year-old Ariel, and nine-month-old Kfir – from a kibbutz during th...
The man who has emerged as Donald Trump’s geopolitical dealmaker-in-chief has said that he’s developed a “friendship” with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Steve Witkoff was named as Mr Trump’s Middle East envoy shortly after the US election but he has since been involved...
A bulldozer tears huge chunks out of buildings in an emptied out Palestinian neighbourhood. It is not clearing rubble, this is a demolition project – methodical and devastating. It is part of Operation Iron Wall, a massive Israeli military assault in the northern West Bank. Image: Homes have been...
A planned news conference between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was cancelled, as political tensions deepened between the two countries. The event was originally supposed to include comments to the media by Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy and retired US Lieutenant Genera...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he told Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy his country needs a “reliable and clear system of security guarantees” before a peace deal can be struck with Russia. Ukraine’s president met with retired US Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg in Kyiv on Thursday as poli...
Israeli police are investigating reports of explosions involving several buses. A police spokesperson called the incident in Bat Yam a “suspected terror attack” after receiving “multiple reports have been received of explosions involving several buses at different locations” in t...
The Pope’s overall condition is “improving slightly” and his heart is working well, as he continues hospital treatment for double pneumonia, the Vatican has said. Francis, 88, does not have a fever and his “hemodynamic parameters” are “stable”, according to spok...
A seagull rescued from a bin in Scotland has been spotted living it up 1,800 miles away on a Moroccan beach after embarking on his very own Gulliver’s Travels. The lesser black-backed gull, named Gulliver, was taken into the care of the Scottish SPCA last May after getting trapped in a rubbish bin...
Manslaughter charges over the death of Liam Payne have been dropped for his friend Roger Nores and two hotel workers. Rogelio “Roger” Nores, hotel operator Gilda Martin, and head of reception Esteban Grassi were charged in December, two months after the One Direction star’s death at th...
A man who “exhibited fixated behaviour” towards British tennis player Emma Raducanu has been given a restraining order, Dubai Police have said. Raducanu, 22, was visibly upset during a game at the Dubai Tennis Championships after the man in the first few rows of the crowd. He was subsequentl...
A man who “exhibited fixated behaviour” towards British tennis player Emma Raducanu has been given a restraining order, Dubai Police have said. Raducanu, 22, was visibly upset during a match at the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday after the man was seated in the first few rows of the cr...
High-visibility clothing may make pedestrians and cyclists invisible to modern braking technology, a study has suggested. Automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems, which are fitted to all new cars, automatically apply the brakes if the potential for a collision is detected and the driver fails to respo...
Voters in Germany are being exposed to copious pro-AfD narratives online from AI-generated content and Russian disinformation campaigns. Experts monitoring social media say Russian-based groups are involved, including “Doppelganger” and “Storm-1516”, which US officials found to b...
Thousands of men are to be checked for prostate cancer in one of the first large-scale European trials of smart screening. The pilot study, starting next week in Ireland, will combine a blood test with personal risk factors and an MRI scan to increase the accuracy of screening men in their 50s and 60s....
Brazilian authorities have said they are “visiting locations to find and clarify what happened” to missing British journalist Charlotte Peet. The 32-year-old has not contacted family or friends in more than 10 days. Police in Brazil have sent the case to authorities in Sao Paulo, where she l...
An upturned campervan has stunned police in France after it was found abandoned in a position they say will “go down in history”. Police in the northwestern region of Brittany posted images of the bizarre scene on Facebook, showing the campervan balancing in a ditch with its back wheels susp...
Ronan Keating has criticised the “broken justice system” in Ireland on Instagram – after the person responsible for his brother’s death walked free. The Boyzone singer’s brother, Ciaran Keating, was in his 50s when he died in a car crash in County Mayo, in the West of Ireland. He...
More than 1,000 stickers were put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in the southern German city of Munich. The stickers, which have been put on both old and recent graves, have a QR code that when scanned shows the name of the person buried and the location of their grave in the ...
The bodies of an Israeli mother and her two children are among four set to be handed over by Hamas on Thursday. Shiri Bibas and her two children – four-year-old Ariel and nine-month-old Kfir – were kidnapped separately from her husband Yarden Bibas during the October 2023 terror attack. Mr B...
Former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual assault for kissing player Jenni Hermoso without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023. Spain’s High Court has ordered Rubiales to pay a fine of more than €10,000 (£8,274) but has acquitted him of coe...
