Thirty-three people have been killed and dozens more trapped after a second avalanche struck a mountainside in Turkey on Wednesday, officials say. About 300 rescue workers were at the site,... Read more
Charges against a California couple accused of sexually assaulting “hundreds” of women will be dropped due to lack of evidence, officials said. Orange County District Attorney To... Read more
Lawyer and diversity campaigner Funke Abimbola says she suffered “bias” when she tried to get into the profession. About a third of FTSE 100 companies have no ethnic minority rep... Read more
President Donald Trump has hailed the “great American comeback” in a speech to Congress that exposed sharp divisions at the top of US politics. At his annual State of the Union a... Read more
The wife of the prime minister of Lesotho has been charged with murdering his previous wife. Earlier First Lady Maesaiah Thabane handed herself in to be questioned by police in the southern... Read more
Chaos in the Iowa Democratic caucuses, where contest results have been delayed by technical glitches, have been seized upon by Donald Trump as a victory. The outcome of the first stage in th... Read more
The deadly coronavirus outbreak that has spread from China does not yet constitute a “pandemic”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. A pandemic is the worldwide spread... Read more
Results from voting in Iowa, the first round in the contest to pick a Democratic candidate to face President Donald Trump, have been plunged into chaos by apparent technology issues. The sta... Read more
Four Turkish soldiers have been killed and nine wounded in shelling by Syrian government forces in Syria’s north-western Idlib province, Turkey said. It said up to 35 Syrian troops had... Read more
The Chinese government has accused the United States of causing “panic” in its response to the coronavirus outbreak. The accusation comes after the US declared a public health em... Read more
Tesla boss Elon Musk has released an electronic dance music track titled “Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe”. Mr Musk posted a teaser picture of himself in a studio shortly before sharin... Read more
An Indian man who arranged a fake birthday party for his one-year-old daughter, then held more than 20 children hostage, has been shot dead by police. Local media identified the man as Subha... Read more
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 170, and a confirmed case in Tibet means it has reached every region in mainland China. Chinese health authorities said there were 7... Read more
The Syrian army says it has recaptured the strategic town of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, the opposition’s last stronghold. State media reported that troops had “liberated... Read more
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