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Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage dismissed the latest revelations over funding as 'entrapment'

UK hard-right party rallies behind leader after new donation scandal

Nigeria's Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest man

Africa's leading crude producer

Nigeria's Dangote refinery looks to raise $1.6 bn in IPO

Brazilian book influencer Marcelo Nogueira speaks as he holds a pocket book version of "White Nights" by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, in Sao Paulo, Brazil

How a Dostoevsky novella took TikTok by storm

The Bayeux Tapestry is widely thought to have been made in England before being transferred to Bayeux in France

11th century work

Bayeux Tapestry 'virtually unchanged', UK museum says, after France spots broken threads

The government intends to sell up to 49.9 percent of TAP Portugal to a strategic investor, with staff to hold five percent

Few remaining state-owned airlines

Portugal extends talks to privatise national carrier TAP

Vessels transit the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of southern Yemen on July 25, 2026

Houthi major offensive

More than 120 killed in Yemen's worst clashes in years: sources

The Jaenschwalde power plant runs mainly on coal

'Climate extremism'

Germany hunts climate activist suspected of power grid sabotage

In June, the European Parliament approved tougher migration rules

Asylum and migration policy

5 EU countries aim to send rejected migrants to 'return hub' by 2027

"Portrait of a Lady" by Italian baroque portraitist Giuseppe Ghislandi (1655–1743) had been missing for eight decades when a Dutch newspaper spotted it in a real estate ad

'Portrait of a Lady'

Argentina to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector's heir

Zhemkova still holds out hope for an optimistic future

Human rights warning

Russia rights group boss fears post-election crackdown

Russia has stepped up air strikes on Ukraine in recent months

Third incident in three months

WHO says key warehouse destroyed by attack in Ukraine

Ratko Mladic's son Darko gave a press conference in Belgrade

Funeral controversy

Bosnian Serb war criminal to be buried Monday, amid EU backlash

Israel announced on February 23, 2025 that its army had emptied three refugee camps

'Concerns of ethnic cleansing'

Israel emptying West Bank refugee camps could be crime against humanity: UN

A first complaint against Iglesias was shelved in Spain in January

Sexual abuse and forced labour

Julio Iglesias faces new abuse complaint

Rescuers worked to extinguish a fire at the SBU headquarters after the strike

'Major escalation'

Russia targets security chief's office in daylight Kyiv strike: Zelensky

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March 2026 seeking tighter controls on mail voting, which he baselessly claims is vulnerable to widespread fraud

US midterms begin with chaos over mail-voting crackdown

Gyllenhaal said women found it much harder to get films financed

Venice film festival

Director Maggie Gyllenhaal ditched AI for Marilyn Monroe film

China's Song Yadong knocked out Russia's Umar Nurmagomedov during a UFC fight in Shanghai in August

Win in Shanghai

Song Yadong looks to become China's first male UFC champion after home victory

Aliot has sparked a furore with his comments

Tight battle to succeed Macron

Le Pen party sparks furore with 'turn off tap' to Ukraine call

Designers are working on the latest 'Shaun the Sheep' adventure

'Wallace & Gromit' creators turn 50 with spook-tacular Shaun yarn

Tesla launched its Cybercab self-driving robotaxi in Austin, Texas on September 3, 2026

US safety regulator probes Tesla's Cybercab

The job cuts make this the largest restructuring programme in global automotive history

Fury and disappointment

Workers reeling after VW cuts open door to factory closures

Demonstrators like these activists pictured at the Lincoln Memorial in August 2026 say President Donald Trump's push to limit mail-in voting is plunging midterm elecitons into chaos

Amid turmoil over mail ballots

Voting begins in crucial US midterm elections

Nepal Army personnel carry a worker who was trapped inside a tunnel, during a rescue operation at Trishuli-3A Hydropower Project in Nepal's Rasuwa district

On the tenth day

Two trapped tunnel workers rescued in Nepal 'miracle'

As US diesel costs hit a new high six months into the US war with Iran, farmers and others are feeling the squeeze

US diesel price hits new high on Iran war, squeezing voters

Jean-Noel Barrot said the Mercator projection offered a distorted view of the world

More faithful to reality

France to abandon 'distorted' Mercator map projection: minister

Manuel Corchia, a leading figure in the Swiss far-right movement Junge Tat, arriving at the court in Zurich

Accused of inciting hatred

Swiss far-right extremists go on trial amid protests

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After deadly floods

Luxembourger joins humanitarian mission in Nepal

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