From Quentin Tarantino to Bella Hadid – celebrities hit the red carpet as the 78th Cannes Film Festival kicked off in the South of France.
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The war’s horrors multiply. The dead, the pieces of the dead. The dying. The starving. More and more of them now – all the weight of human suffering…
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Getty ImagesFormer US President Joe Biden’s aides have hit back at a new book that accuses his White House inner circle of covering up his “physical deterioration” during his ill-fated re-election campaign.
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A duck has been caught speeding on traffic cameras in the town of Koeniz in central Switzerland.
Local police said the mallard – a wild duck – was snapped on radar images on 13 April clocking in at 52km (32 miles) in a 30km zone.
Adding to the…
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AFP/Getty ImagesFormer Uruguayan President José Mujica, known as “Pepe”, has died at the age of 89.
The ex-guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 was known as the world’s “poorest president” because of his…
Getty ImagesA Los Angeles judge has agreed to resentence two brothers who are serving life in prison for the 1989 murders of their parents in a…
Corbis via Getty ImagesIn the latest India-Pakistan stand-off, there were no ultimatums, no red buttons.
Yet the cycle of military retaliation, veiled signals and swift…
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ReutersKenya’s President William Ruto is a man of many nicknames.
Deputy Jesus, El Chapo, Hustler and Chicken Seller are just some that he has acquired in recent years.
As is often the case when people are given…
Getty ImagesVirat Kohli’s retirement from Tests has left Indian cricket beleaguered and the sporting world gasping in surprise.
Coming on the heels of captain Rohit Sharma quitting a…
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Reuters/Jane RosenbergProsecutors’ star witness, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, took the stand on Tuesday in the hip-hop mogul’s sex trafficking trial, accusing the rapper of…