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Yasmin Fedda’s powerful documentary lays bare the human cost of the Assad regime and ...

Scientists say there is significant risk of resurgence until all age groups are immunised ...

Peter Lawrence, who has died aged 74, was in his early 60s when his ...

President Biden, meanwhile, will address nation this evening on the American lives lost to ...

President says the time is finally right for international agreement to tackle biodiversity loss ...

Speculation grows China seeking to block opposition candidates and overhaul judiciaryA top Chinese official ...

Luca Attanasio was travelling in convoy in east of country The Italian ambassador to ...

My father, Melbourne Barrett, who has died aged 91, spent most of his adult ...

Kremlin has rejected diplomacy over Alexei Navalny imprisonment, says EU foreign chief ahead of ...

Joan and John Gallagher, 64 and 62, met in June 1983 after a windsurfing ...

Finding devotees on the other side of the world let me escape from school, ...

January’s Capitol attack echoed an 1876 massacre that led to a racist takeover of ...

President will address nation this evening on the American lives lost to the pandemicUS ...

Fauci says Americans may still be wearing masks in 2022; Berlin among 10 regions ...

Author Namina Forna loved JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis’ books as a child, but ...

Civil war has drastically cut support services for women already at high risk of ...

Exclusive: NPCC’s drugs lead backs wider supply of naloxone after successful trialsThe overdose antidote ...

Longtail Aviation cargo plane scatters small metal parts over Meerssen, injuring womanDutch authorities are ...

Pfizer jab cuts risk of admission by up to 85% four weeks after first ...

Protesters compare date – 22.2.2021 – to 8 August 1988, when military cracked down ...

PM to unveil proposals for England on Monday, with shops and restaurants facing longer ...

Fleeing to Kyrgyzstan in the 1960s, communities established mosques and villages but the local ...

The ABC reports another woman made a formal report at a police station in ...

Police say ‘all possible investigations’ into whereabouts of Esther Dingley in France carried out ...

Analysis: Members of Senate and House are targets but some doubt wisdom of enforcing ...

Jannis Stürtz has trawled Casablanca and rooted around a factory in Sousse for music. ...

Forty hubs in England will field calls from frontline staff and contact those at ...

Exclusive: The ‘biggest international crisis in generations’ has rolled back years of progress and ...

‘These images are fleeting moments of the everyday,’ says Observer photographer Richard Saker. ‘More ...

Crown Resorts director Harold Mitchell resigns; PM refuses to commit to release report into ...

Protesters compare Monday’s date – 22.2.2021 – to 8 August 1988, when the military ...

UK exports including air-to-air refuelling equipment will prolong conflict, say campaignersOxfam has accused the ...

The virus has been used as a pretext in many countries to crush dissent, ...

26 February 1971 Construction of the concrete world of Thamesmead completes work begun by ...

The Birmingham MP Jess Phillips has written a new book called Mother. She reflects ...

With Lee Daniels’ film The United States Vs Billie Holiday out this week, the ...

Cranbrook head says schools ‘need to take further action’ in response to 2,500 testimonies ...

Protesters compare Monday’s date – 22.2.2021 – to 8 August 1988, when the military ...

Studio says it is acknowledging and contextualising culturally offensive material rather than cutting itDisney+ ...

Boeing tells airlines to pull dozens of aircraft with certain engine from active service ...

Quarantine, frontline health and airport workers among first to receive vaccine, which experts say ...

Many parts of central Christchurch are unrecognisable nowChristchurch mayor Lianne Dalziel was born and ...

A minute’s silence was observed at 12.51pm, exactly 10 years after the quake struck ...

Fauci says Americans may still be wearing masks in 2022; UK speeds up vaccination ...

A woman says attack took place in 2016 when she was a school leaver ...

Fauci says Americans may still be wearing masks in 2022; UK speeds up vaccination ...

Neil Basu says move to protest appointment of William Shawcross could harm processBritain’s best ...

Engine failure of a United Airlines Boeing prompts airlines in US and Japan to ...

Inscription on painting that has been subject of debate has been reattributed to the ...

Cambridge University team say their findings could be used to spot people at risk ...

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Attack took place in 2016 when she was a school leaver working as Coalition ...

A minute’s silence is to be observed at 12.51pm, exactly 10 years after the ...

Condemnation of military comes from around world as Aung San Suu Kyi remains under ...

PM to unveil proposals for England on Monday, with shops and restaurants facing longer ...

Agreement paves way for diplomatic talks between Tehran and the US over sanctionsThe UN’s ...

Phase 1a of the vaccine program starts today; questions about the government’s response to ...

Two 15-year-old boys charged with kidnapping after man reported car taken with his children ...

Phase 1a of the vaccine program starts today; questions about the government’s response to ...

Arlene Foster and senior MPs want new post-Brexit trade arrangements to stop disruption at ...

President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, calls the matter a ‘complete and utter ...

Jasmine Harrison, the youngest woman to make the 3,000-mile journey alone, relished the freedom ...

Ex-undercover officer claims in posthumous letter he was pressured to lure activist’s security men ...

Police launch investigation into blaze at family home in St David’s area of the ...

Neil Basu urges rights groups not to boycott process led by Priti Patel’s pick, ...

Analysis: many on the Tory backbenches want Covid restrictions over by end of April ...

Masks may be needed in 2022, says chief medical adviser Coronavirus – live coverageAs ...

House whip dodges questions from ABC host Jonathan KarlGarland vows to target white supremacists ...

Fauci says other measures likely to be relaxed earlier; UK also registers 9,834 new ...

Our pre-pandemic dog days are our destination once more unless we break sharply with ...

On Thursday, Facebook blocked all news on its platform in Australia. This historic move ...

State energy grid failed in deep freeze Reports spread of companies seeking to cash ...

PM will have to weigh up issues such as case rates, new variants and ...

Fauci says other measures likely to be relaxed earlier; UK health secretary says cases ...

Free app allowing access to 30,000 stations proves hit for audiences stuck at homeEver ...

Condemnation of military comes from around world as Aung San Suu Kyi remains under ...

The creator of mad-scientist mega-hit animation Rick and Morty is aiming for a more ...

A United Airlines plan rained debris on Denver suburbs, narrowly missing a home, after ...

How will we tell the story of Covid-19 to future generations, capturing all the ...

Volunteers gather to remove clumps of tar in cleanup effort that could take months ...

Secret deal reportedly involved Israel paying Russia $1.2m to send Sputnik jabs to Syria ...

Shutdowns led to the refineries flaring, or burning and releasing gasesWhat caused huge Texas ...

Ingestion of lead shotgun pellets from bed of Larnaca Salt Lake blamed for rise ...

Restrictive regime will be imposed this week, including removing access to camera feeds at ...

Testimony released ahead of Senate judiciary hearingGarland’s long wait is over but his problems ...

As Covid pushed the island’s economy to the brink of collapse, musicians and film-makers ...

Dimitris Lignadis denies charges as allegations continue to shake Greece’s arts and sports worldsGreek ...

Boris Johnson should use upcoming G7 presidency to insist UK banks join debt suspension ...