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Matt Trevelyan, formerly a puppet maker, made his lightweight costume out of polystyrene and bamboo

Harvard University has announced it is suing the Trump administration over a funding freeze

British firms will be able to access an EU defence fund after negotiators prepared to make concessions on fishing

The coach allegedly groomed and had sex with minors at two different high schools across a

The Georgia congresswoman not only bought stocks last week, but also took on some of the markets’ biggest losers

Aides have discussed possible advertising and social media campaigns to change public opinion among 57,000 Greenlanders

The officers used the creative tactic after criminals began to recognise them and flee

Condolences were pouring in Friday for the Barcelona family that perished in a helicopter accident an ocean away, from Spain’s prime minister to the company where the parents worked and the school where their children studied

Callum Hesketh spent his first four months in intensive care and had had 24 temporary foster care placements by the age of four

Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing funding gaps meant that hundreds of thousands were deprived of protection

Planets are eaten by dying stars as they turn into red giants and expand. Earth will be eaten by the sun in billions of years

Located near the Argentine border, Laguna del Maule is a sprawling volcanic landscape

Police officers stormed the home to find a dog ‘suffering from multiple stab wounds to its torso’

Authorities in Nigeria have barred radio stations from playing a song critical of President Bola Tinubu and his administration’s policies

A crowd of protesters staged a demonstration against gender-based violence in the South African capital of Pretoria on Friday as part of a national outcry after an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl

Hungary reported its first case in over 50 years last month, triggering border closures and the mass slaughter of cattle

Witness says helicopter’s blade ‘flew off’ moments before it plunged into New York river

U.K. lawmakers are being recalled Saturday in order to back emergency legislation aimed at saving the last plant in the country that makes steel from raw materials, a move that has been widely called for since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel

President typically does not share his medical information with the public but may choose to do this time being the oldest president to have been elected

The recent warm and sunny weather helped one grower produce 200 tonnes of strawberries - 50 tonnes more than by the same time last year

Trade economist Simon Evenett told The Independent that the Trump administration seems ‘very reluctant to go below 10 per cent’ on tariffs

Authorities say a fire that raced through a southern New Jersey neighborhood, killing two young sisters, apparently started in their duplex

Thousands of supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party have rallied in Lahore against the United States and Israel over the war in Gaza

Marjorie Taylor Greene bought some high profile stocks last week as other investors were bailing out of the market

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pledged that the UK will be an ‘AI superpower’ and remarked the technology could be used to tackle NHS waiting lists.