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Buckingham Palace announces Katharine, Duchess of Kent — who once had a secret job as a primary school music teacher — died on Thursday evening.

A maintenance tender for the 140-year-old funicular that crashed in Lisbon on Wednesday, killing 16 people, was cancelled earlier this week because the bids were too expensive.

These days, sirens and explosions are pretty much the only things that punctuate the silence in Kramatorsk, near Ukraine's front lines. They're a regular reminder of how Russia's military is closing in.

Russians are being pushed onto a new messaging service linked to the Kremlin, and experts warn people can expect them to be watching everything.

Donald Trump extends a red-carpet welcome to Vladimir Putin in Alaska ahead of a meeting to discuss a possible peace deal for Ukraine.

The US president says he wants to meet Vladimir Putin again "almost immediately" if this week's landmark summit in Alaska goes well, and for Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to attend.

You don't have to look far in Russia to find hypotheses as to why Alaska is in the wrong hands. Whether Moscow could ever rule it again depends on who you talk to.

The US president is searching for a way to end the bloodshed in Ukraine and his latest plan involves combining two favoured punishments: more sanctions, more tariffs.

Some were fleeing wokeness. Others said they were sick of racism. But for Westerners seeking a better life in Russia, things can backfire — badly.

British PM Keir Starmer says his country will recognise a Palestinian state as early as September, unless Israel takes significant steps to end the war in Gaza.

US President Donald Trump says he will give Russia 10 to 12 days to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine, slashing the 50-day deadline he initially floated.

Concerns are growing that Kazakhstan could be at risk of a future Russian invasion, amid claims of the Kremlin's growing influence and signs of a cultural crackdown.

Authorities investigating the deaths of Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota and his brother say they are trying to determine how fast their car was travelling before it crashed.

Accounts from inside Tehran's Evin Prison are as harrowing as they are rare — many of those locked up inside never make it out. Now Iranian officials say 71 people were killed in an Israeli strike there last week.

Despite a ceasefire being declared between Israel, the United States and Iran, we're now "moving into a true danger zone", some analysts say, because the Islamic Republic is now trying to develop a nuclear weapon faster than ever.

Israel says Iranian missiles have been fired towards its territory, just hours after Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Israel had agreed to a ceasefire with Iran. Take a look back at the day's coverage.

US President Donald Trump says Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan have been "totally obliterated". This is what that means in terms of danger from radiation.

As Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine rages into its fourth year, Poland is preparing to be the Russian president's next target, beefing up defences on its borders and making every man a "fully fledged" soldier.

To leave, or not to leave? It's a question some Israelis and Iranians have grappled with over the past week as fighting between the two nations intensifies.

Ange Postecoglou is sacked as manager of English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur, just two weeks after he delivered the north London club its first silverware in 17 years.

British prosecutors have approved 21 charges for social media influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate, and his brother Tristan, including rape and human trafficking.

Officers say a 53-year-old man they arrested after a car ploughed into large crowds of people in Liverpool, north-west England, earlier this week has not yet been charged.

The US president says he's "recommending" a 50 per cent tariff be put on goods from the European Union from June 1, because trade negotiations with the bloc are "going nowhere", and that Apple could face a 25 per cent penalty if iPhones aren't manufactured in America.

The reality TV star and businesswoman tells a Paris court she thought she was going to die during a 2016 robbery in her hotel room during the city's fashion week celebration, and that the incident changed her life forever.

He was a close confidant of the previous pontiff, Pope Francis, and we learnt a lot about what he might be planning to do after his brief speech.