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Associated Newspapers sought an interim payment of £10 million from Prince Harry and other high-profile claimants on Wednesday after they lost their privacy lawsuits against the Daily Mail publisher. Earlier this ...

The United States and Saudi Arabia jointly struck Iran-backed groups in Iraq on Wednesday, and President Donald Trump vowed to “beat the fucking shit” out of Iran for firing on ...

Netflix has edged ahead of the BBC as Britons’ first choice when deciding what to watch on television, media regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday, with 26% of viewers turning first to ...

Ukrainian drones hit oil refineries and logistics facilities in the Russian cities of Perm, Ryazan and Taganrog, as well as the Crimean peninsula overnight, with the country’s top online ...

Rescuers were frantically searching on Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads ...

Average prices at British retailers rose by an annual 0.9 per cent this month, the ​smallest increase since December 2025, as the ‌men’s soccer world cup triggered supermarket discounts on alcohol ...

Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens of thousands of people across France and Spain, as Western Europe braced for another heatwave. ...

A Canadian woman of Chinese origin accused of spying while working as an intern at NATO’s military headquarters in Belgium will remain in pretrial custody for another month, a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday discussed efforts to revive peace talks with Russia and a deal to allow Ukraine to make Patriot missile ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey aimed to sign a comprehensive energy cooperation deal with its neighbour Iraq as soon as possible, after talks with Iraqi Prime Minister ...

Oman has presented Iran with a plan backed by Gulf states to manage the Strait of Hormuz, including collecting voluntary fees for using it, a Gulf source and a Western ...

Britain’s governing Labour Party has caught up with, or overtaken, Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK in the polls, according to three different surveys which showed a bounce for ...

Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens of thousands of people across France and Spain, as Western Europe braced for another heatwave. ...

A major earthquake rocked Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people. Speaking to reporters at her ...

President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy later on Tuesday, with wars in Iran and Ukraine at critical stages and his ties with ...

Powerful earthquakes struck Japan, Mexico and China within hours of one another on Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning in southern Japan and emergency responses in parts of Asia. The strongest ...

Yemen’s Houthi Movement aims to replicate Iran’s Hormuz Strait strategy in the Red Sea by disrupting shipping in the Bab el-Mandeb and has been emboldened by an insufficient ...

Europe’s largest aerial emergency services firm Avincis is warning Europe is not ready for longer and more extreme wildfire seasons, with the company’s chief executive telling Reuters that ...

The Bank of England (BoE) looks set to keep interest rates unchanged at 3.75 per cent on Thursday, ​despite a recent spike in oil prices above $100 a barrel which may test ...

British firms reported the first rise in activity in three months in July, helped ‌by a brief respite in the Iran war, while consumers grew in confidence and spent more, ...

Firefighters sought on Monday to take advantage of more favourable weather conditions to subdue massive wildfires threatening the French city and tourist region of Bordeaux and a number of sites ...

The Cyprus branch of Turkish opposition party the CHP has defected to the new party formed by its former leader Ozgur Ozel, which he has named the New Party, following 91 ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday vowed to take action in response to the vehicle ramming attack on the Berlin Pride celebration as debate erupted in Germany over why the suspected ...

Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reported drone attacks on Monday, two days after the United States abruptly suspended a two-week campaign of air strikes against Iran, as Tehran appeared to ...