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A manhunt is underway in Berlin after a vehicle drove into a crowded pride event, killing one person and injuring 16. Police have named the suspect as 21-year-old Abdul B and have released an image of him. A vehicle suspected of being used in the attack has been located by police inside the city’s Tiergarten […]

A further 55,000 people have been evacuated from six towns in France, as wildfires which have caused devastation across the country pick up pace. The most recent evacuations took place in towns to the south of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region. Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week, primarily France and Spain, where […]

On a Saturday evening in Michigan, the skies still hazy from drifting Canadian wildfire smoke, hundreds of voters packed into Detroit’s opulent 104-year-old Opera House, rising from their seats to cheer loudly as Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez took the stage. As two of the leading figures on the American left, Ocasio-Cortez […]

New Bell – a notorious prison in Douala, Cameroon – is a city within a city. The facility has its own “taxis” (inmates who whizz through congested courtyards on foot to hand deliver messages), its own law enforcement (burly prisoners who help stretched guards police the facility) and market (a string of stalls where convicts […]

When New York design firm Studio Sofield was hired to reimagine the building’s interior, it had to address the problem of the building’s previous life as an office space, co-founder William Sofield said. Another big hurdle came with the building’s shape. How do you subdivide a triangle – just 1.8m (6ft) across at its narrowest […]

On the fourth series of Love Island UK in 2018, Megan Barton-Hanson pulled fellow Islander, Wes Nelson, for a chat. Just moments earlier, she had ended her relationship with Eyal Booker after admitting the pair had little more than physical chemistry. Now, sitting opposite Wes, who had been coupled up with Laura Anderson since the […]

Obesity is an “escalating global epidemic”, says the WHO. More than one billion people worldwide are now obese, and childhood obesity has quadrupled since 1990. In 2025, Italy became the first country to pass a national law recognising obesity as a chronic, progressive and relapsing disease. Rather than treating obesity simply as the result of […]

Chasing her dream of becoming a world tennis champion, teen athlete Maristella Torrecampo and her father took a gruelling 13-hour bus from her sleepy hillside hometown for her latest match in Manila. The 14-year-old’s mum and four siblings could not join to watch her play; her crowdfunded budget was only enough for two round-trip bus […]

In his remarks, Trump was cordial and conciliatory, saying “the second time is always better”, joking and praising the media – saying he respects “most of them”. “As I said three months ago, the show must go on,” Trump said. The US president also called on Americans to respect freedom of speech. “We settle our […]