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Around 1200 BC, human civilization experienced a harrowing setback with the near-simultaneous demise or diminishment of several important empires in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean region – an event called the ...

The official emblem which will be used for the celebrations to accompany the coronation of Britain’s King Charles in May was unveiled on Friday, with the design giving a ...

Argentina forward Lionel Messi is on the shortlist for the FIFA Best Male Player award, joined by Paris St Germain team mate Kylian Mbappe and Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, ...

Life as Everton coach could not have got off to a better start for Sean Dyche but all eyes will be on Anfield in the latest round of Premier League ...

By Kemal Aslan, Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the ...

By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld The Biden administration on Friday added six Chinese entities connected to Beijing’s suspected surveillance balloon programme to an export blacklist. The new restrictions ...

Belgian prosecutors arrested one lawmaker and took another in for questioning on Friday in connection with a corruption scandal that has hit the European Parliament. The cash-for-influence scandal began in ...

A US fighter jet on Friday shot down over Alaska a high-altitude object that was the size of a small car, on the order of President Joe Biden, the White ...

Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President ...

A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the 2024 Olympics, the Lithuanian sports minister said on Friday, ...

As his parents fought wildfires threatening their home in southern Chile, 13-year-old Lucas Cespedes decided to take action, ferrying firefighters across the local river in a small yellow rowing boat ...

A man in Paris fired shots from his balcony window in Paris’ 15th district and the police have intervened, a police source said on Friday, adding no-one was injured. The ...

Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the compulsory wearing of ...

When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad’s family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labour – giving birth to her third ...

Drone footage in southern Turkey showed a fissure slicing across fields, roads, streams and hillsides, caused by a massive earthquake that struck the region at the start of the week. ...

Britain’s biggest railway workers’ union rejected the latest pay offers from train companies on Friday, signalling more pain for commuters who have been disrupted by sporadic strikes since last ...

Two Israelis including a child were killed and several injured when a Palestinian driver rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of ...

Iran’s security forces have arrested the “main perpetrators” of a drone attack on a military site in the central city of Isfahan, in which Israeli “mercenaries” were involved, state ...

Adidas (ADSGn.DE) shares slumped as much as 12 per cent on Friday after the sportswear maker warned it could plunge to a loss this year for the first time in ...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin warned that many European clubs are “compromising their economic sustainability” due to ever-increasing player wages which have risen on average by 16% compared to pre-pandemic levels. Europe’...

UK GDP shows zero growth in Q4 after 0.2 per cent fall in Q3 Output falls 0.5 per cent in December, partly due to strikes Economy grows 4 per cent in 2022 but still ...

Yahoo said on Thursday it plans to lay off more than 20 per cent of its total workforce as part of a major restructuring of its ad tech division. The cuts ...

Portugal forward Joao Felix said he left Atletico Madrid to join Chelsea on loan because he was struggling to get used to the Spanish side’s style of play, adding ...

Hatayspor have withdrawn from the Turkish Super Lig following the devastating earthquake that hit the country this week, the president of the Turkish Union of Clubs Ali Koc said on ...