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Ozzy Osbourne, frontman of 1970s heavy metal band Black Sabbath, earned his infamy biting the head off a bat on stage and pursuing a drug-fuelled lifestyle before reinventing himself as ...

A US appeals court on Tuesday declined to lift restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration on White House access by Associated Press journalists after the news organization declined ...

A six-week-old infant was among 15 people who have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition now killing Palestinians faster than at any ...

Labourers were pausing outdoor work and tourists seeking out shade on Tuesday as Greece sweltered under its third heatwave of the summer and soaring temperatures gripped the wider Balkan region, ...

UK travellers could be paying as much as £189 for just four days of airport parking, according to new research by UK-based price comparison platform Confused.com. The data reveals that ...

Britain’s move to lower the voting age to 16 launches the political battle for teenagers’ votes, with campaign groups warning no one should make assumptions about their allegiances and parties ...

Israeli tanks pushed into southern and eastern areas of the Gazan city of Deir Al-Balah for the first time on Monday, an area where Israeli sources said the military believes ...

A tourist boat carrying 53 people, including five crew members, capsized in Vietnam’s Halong Bay on Saturday, killing three people, state media reported. The accident occurred at approximately 2pm local ...

Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Saturday, setting ablaze at least one multi-storey apartment building and killing one ...

Syria’s Islamist-led government said its security forces were deploying in the predominantly Druze southern city of Sweida on Saturday and urged all parties to respect a ceasefire after days ...

Almost a third of Italians believe the country will be directly involved in a war within five years, but only 16% of those of fighting age would be willing to take ...

WhatsApp should prepare to leave the Russian market, a lawmaker who regulates the IT sector said on Friday, warning that the messaging app owned by Meta Platforms was likely to ...

The European Union has eased rules for Turks to use its open-border Schengen area, the bloc’s ambassador to Ankara said on Friday, calling for the urgent revival of negotiations ...

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia had no plans to attack NATO or Europe but, if the West escalated the Ukraine war any further, then Moscow ...

Eight children in the UK have been spared from devastating genetic diseases thanks to a new three-person in vitro fertilization technique, scientists from Newcastle University reported on Wednesday. The technique, ...

The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a major overhaul of the country’s democratic system. ...

London Southend Airport said on Wednesday that it had partially reopened after flights to and from the airport were suspended following a plane crash that killed four foreign nationals on ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared on Wednesday that her proposed new 2 trillion euro budget for the European Union from 2028-2034 had been designed for a new era”. ...

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defense ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze ...

Britain’s annual rate of consumer price inflation unexpectedly rose to its highest in over a year at 3.6 per cent in June, official figures showed on Wednesday, slightly dampening expectations ...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Tuesday he had submitted a resignation letter, as part of the country’s largest wartime governmental reshuffle expected this week. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Britain would fight to defend the United States but suggested he could not say the same for the European Union, a factor ...

The Kremlin on Tuesday reacted icily to Donald Trump’s warnings to President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, saying that recent decisions by the U.S. president and the NATO military ...

US President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine on Monday, and threatened sanctions on buyers of Russian exports unless Russia agrees a peace deal, a major policy shift brought ...