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A child died after being pulled from the sea when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, the first reported fatality since Turkey opened its border last week...

Syrian government forces battled to recapture a strategic rebel-held town in Idlib province yesterday as a Turkish official said Ankara would continue to strike at President Bashar al-Assad's troops after...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought re-election yesterday under the weight of an imminent corruption trial, with the country's third ballot in less than a year predicted to end in...

James Lipton, an actor turned academic who became an unlikely celebrity and got hundreds of master actors and Hollywood luminaries to open up about their craft as the long-time host...

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has cancelled public engagements to focus on the country's coronavirus response as cases in Europe surged by more than 40pc.

My child is in the school that has been closed and is at home today. She has a sister in a local primary school and a brother in playschool. Should...

Increasing numbers of schools are cancelling tours abroad after the arrival of the first case of coronavirus in Ireland in a student returning from a mid-term break trip to northern...

South Korea has sought murder charges against leaders of a secretive church at the heart of its ballooning coronavirus outbreak as the global death toll rose above 3,000.

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The US has reported a sixth death from the coronavirus strain known as Covid-19 as new cases in China dropped to their lowest level in more than a month.

Three students from a special educational needs school in Kettering have recorded a rap about knife crime at Beck Recording Studio, where Freddie Mercury once recorded.

A boy has died after a boat full of migrants heading to a Greek island capsized, as a wave of thousands tried to cross Greece's land and sea borders.

Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have united behind Joe Biden's presidential bid as moderate Democrats scrambled to boost the former vice president hours before voting began across a series of...

Exit polls indicate that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a solid edge over his main rival in Israel's third election in under a year, but it is unclear whether...

Vladimir Putin has submitted a range of proposed amendments to Russian's constitution that include a mention of God and describe marriage as a heterosexual union.

Health officials in Washington state confirmed four more deaths from a previously undiscovered COVID-19 novel coronavirus infection in Seattle and its northern suburbs, bringing the US total to six. All...

THOUSANDS of staff at tech giant Google's Dublin headquarters have been told to work from home tomorrow as a staff member – who presented with flu-like symptoms – is being...

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Acting prime minister of Iraq said on Monday he was standing down from most of his duties and called for early elections. Caretaker PM Adel Abdul Mahdi's statement came one...

Amy Klobuchar has ended her Democratic presidential campaign and will endorse rival Joe Biden in an effort to unify moderate voters behind the former vice president's White House bid.

A man accused of pretending to represent the Qatari sovereign wealth fund to scam investors at a London-listed oil firm, uses social media to show off his jet-set lifestyle.

Alaskan sea otters Ozzy and Ola explore their new home at the National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham.

Tuesday is the biggest day of the primary calendar, when 14 states from the Atlantic to the Pacific vote on the Democratic presidential nominee.

The FTSE 100 closed in the green following a volatile session which saw it initially surge, slip back into the red amid coronavirus fears and then return to modest growth...

Madame Tussauds has added a baby-carrier to its wax model of Boris Johnson following the announcement that he and partner Carrie Symonds are expecting their first child.

Scientists say that half of the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues unchecked.

The UN's refugee agency said on Monday that Greece had no right to stop accepting asylum applications as Athens struggled with a sudden increase of arrivals at its border of...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she understood that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expected more help from Europe to deal with the refugee crisis, but added he should...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was rejected for a handshake by her interior minister on Monday amid coronavirus fears.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has revealed her children go to the school where the first Irish case of the Coronavirus was confirmed.

Libya's internationally recognized government will soon try to push back Khalifa Haftar's eastern forces that have been attacking the capital Tripoli for months, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has said. “The...

Three people were killed and 11 injured in blast in east Afghanistan, AFP said on Monday, citing police. The report came as the Taliban said they were resuming offensive operations...

The board of Barclays should withdraw support for its chief executive Jes Staley over his links with paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, an activist investor has demanded.

Germany's busiest airport was shut down for nearly two hours on Monday after a drone was spotted near the facility, federal police said.

A recently dismissed security guard has released his hostages and walked out of a Philippine shopping centre, ending a day-long hostage crisis.

A train line has issued a plea for empathy after receiving criticism on Twitter when someone was hit by a train.

Health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said 2,100 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in 18 of the 27 EU states, and 38 EU citizens had died because of the disease. The president...

An emboldened Joe Biden is trying to cast himself as the clear moderate alternative to progressive Bernie Sanders as the Democrats' shrinking presidential field races toward Super Tuesday.

Less than a quarter of children who attend a pre-school on the same campus as the now-closed secondary school in the east of the country turned up today amid coronavirus...