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Click:chinese lantern film prop The moment she was finally reunited with her family after years of slavery under Islamic State should have been filled with joy, but instead it was one of the worst days of Soham’s life. The 23-year-old Yazidi woman spent the five-hour ride from Mosul to Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan in anguish, […]

An "unprecedented" heatwave in Japan has killed at least 65 people in one week, government officials said Tuesday, with the weather agency now classifying the record-breaking weather as a "natural disaster." In the week to Sunday at least 65 people died of heat stroke while 22,647 people were hospitalised, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said in […]

Cincinnati schoolteacher Bryce Carlson set a record for the fastest solo unsupported west-east row across the North Atlantic ocean on Saturday and also became the first US citizen to complete the feat. The 37-year-old landed at the port of St Mary’s in the Scilly Isles, off the coast of south-west England, some 38 days six hours and 49 […]

A 10-foot shark which caused panicked tourists to flee the water a packed beach in Majorca was swimming in the shallows because it had been stung by a ray, an autopsy revealed on Friday. Police closed the beach early on Thursday afternoon as the fish swam around just a few feet from the shoreline, watched […]

Jean-Claude Juncker returned from meeting Donald Trump waving a joint US-EU agreement and declaring “peace in our time” having averted, for now, a global trade war. Donald Trump is known as a dealmaker but Mr Juncker is also a grizzled veteran of decades of Brussels backroom deals and politicking so who came out on top […]

Activists hurled rocks and bottles during a rally in the American city of Portland, Oregon organised by two far-Right groups that drew counter protests, said police, who ordered demonstrators to leave not long after the marches got under way. Officers in the western state of Oregon’s largest city maintained a heavy presence during the duelling […]

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s hard-line interior minister, has come under fire for using a phrase that was made popular by Benito Mussolini during the Fascist era. Responding to criticism that he was fomenting xenophobia and racism with his anti-immigrant rhetoric, Mr Salvini wrote on Twitter: “Many enemies, much honour”. The words he used in Italian – […]

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders had a heated exchange with a CNN reporter on Thursday as she revealed the heavy toll media scrutiny has on her private life. Jim Acosta, CNN’s White House correspondent, challenged Ms Sanders to publicly state the media was not the "enemy of the people", a refrain frequently used by […]

The leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force stepped out of the shadows on Thursday to deliver a fiery speech against Donald Trump, warning the US president that if a war broke out Iran would “destroy all that you possess”. General Qassem Soleimani, who heads the Revolutionary Guard’s expeditionary special forces, is considered of the most […]

Hitman is getting a snazzy new Game of the Year Edition containing a bunch of new extras – and the return of Elusive Targets you may have missed. The GOTY edition launches digitally on 7th November for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at full price for new owners including everything released so far. Existing […]