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Singer Paul McCartney and Apple Corps have announced the opening next year of the first official London museum dedicated to The Beatles

Archive material

Beatles to open first London museum on site of last gig

Artists are in Vienna for the Eurovision Song Contest but the public broadcasters for Ireland, Slovenia and Spain say they will not be showing it

Over Israel's participation

Boycotting Spain, Ireland, Slovenia will not show Eurovision

The grim polls came less than two years after Starmer swept to power in a landslide general election victory

Growing threat to leadership

Under-threat UK PM Starmer vows to prove 'doubters' wrong

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte was also impeached last year on mostly the same charges but the Senate sent the case back to the House

Could end her 2028 presidential bid

Philippine lawmakers vote to impeach VP Sara Duterte

Thai police seized smuggled ivory valued at around $300,000

250kg of elephant tusks

Thai police arrest 9 in largest ivory seizure in decade

A Southern right whale shown off Muizenberg Beach in False Bay, Cape Town on October 11, 2013

Shifting sea traffic into their habitats

Middle East conflicts a danger for whales off S.Africa: study

Iran is the world's second most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups based outside the country

Claimed coercion to false confession

Iran hangs 'elite student' on espionage charges: NGOs

Thaksin Shinawatra hugs his daughter Paetongtarn at Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok

Return to the spotlight?

Thailand's ex-PM Thaksin released from prison

Passengers wearing blue protective suits were evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius at the industrial port of Granadilla de Abona on the island of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands

Endemic in Argentina

US, French nationals from hantavirus ship test positive

Festivities for table tennis world champion Sun Yingsha's 25th birthday included messages on massive digital billboards, a drone show and packed fan gatherings at shopping malls across China

Waste of resources

Party's over: China tells fans to end birthday blowouts for sport idols

Canary Islands authorities had warned that the evacuation operation must be completed by Monday, when adverse weather conditions will force the ship to leave

For at least three weeks

Australia to quarantine six people from hantavirus ship

ETH Zurich professor of geology Domenico Giardini inside the BedrettoLab

'It was a success!'

Groundbreaking: 'Controlled' quakes triggered under Swiss Alps

An aerial view of Epuyen, Argentina, where a hantavirus outbreak caused 11 people to die over several months in 2018-2019

Took place more than seven years ago

Hantavirus outbreak renews painful memories for Patagonian village

Myanmar's junta staged a tightly restricted election that resulted in coup-leading military chief Min Aung Hlaing taking over as civilian president in April.

'Discriminatory measures'

Myanmar complains over pariah treatment in ASEAN bloc

Rakhi Gulshan Singh, a seamstress and policyholder of a heat insurance scheme, preparing a meal inside her single-room rented home in Ahmedabad

Modest, but helpful, payout

In India, heat-triggered insurance offers 'some relief'

The Cannes red carpet is usually packed with American A-listers

Is risk-averse Hollywood running scared of Cannes critics?

Germany's defeat to Japan at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar contributed to them being eliminated in the group stage, just as they were in 2018

'Natural evolution'

The first 48-team World Cup -- more opportunities, less jeopardy?

According to evidence gathered by Florida's attorney general, Phoenix Ikner asked ChatGPT which weapon would be best suited for his attack

Realistic, if deeply complicated, proposition

Can ChatGPT be charged in a murder? Florida wants to find out

Tony Dunn says his homeowners' insurance has surged almost 30 percent in cost since Hurricane Helene

Becoming prohibitively expensive

Climate risks fuel insurance costs, squeezing US households even inland

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News program '60 Minutes' that the war with Iran was 'not over' as enriched uranium still remains in the country

'You go in and you take it out'

Iran war 'not over,' uranium must be removed: Netanyahu

Ziobro, pictured here in 2022, faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the charges laid against him

Poland to contact US

Poland's wanted ex-minister confirms he fled to US from Hungary

Austrian singer Johannes Pietsch, aka JJ poses on the turquoise carpet for the opening ceremony of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 at the City Hall Square in Vienna, Austria

Amid calls for boycott

Selfies galore as Eurovision kicks off in Vienna

Leandro Trossard's goal fired Arsenal to the brink of the Premier League title

Arsenal on brink of Premier League title, Villa slip up in Champions League chase

A woman walks past a large tiled image of Iran's current leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei outside a metro station in Tehran

'Our restraint is over'

Trump rejects Iran peace terms, Tehran warns of new attacks

France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier its escorts were transiting the Suez Canal, the defence ministry said

Iran warns against deployment

UK, France to host defence ministers meeting on Hormuz

Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of prison for her activism

'Unrecognisable'

Iran Nobel winner released on bail for medical treatment: supporters

A British citizen boards a plane bound for the UK after evacuation from the MV Hondius in Tenerife

International concern

Hantavirus ship evacuation nears completion as 94 flown home

US President Donald Trump has a lot to discuss with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping when the two leaders meet in Beijing

'Highly symbolic' superpower summit

Trump set to 'apply pressure' on Xi over Iran

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