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With the price of fuel rising China’s BYD says it is positioning itself to benefit from the global shift away from fossil fuels.

A shipment of gifts recorded in the files led us to another apartment. Details of yet another, rented in 2018 and 2019, were buried in a 10,000-page credit card bill. It also recorded the daily living expenses of the woman staying there, who had her own card on Epstein’s account with a $2,000 (£1,477) monthly […]

Conspiracies are running rampant online after the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 people tied to sensitive US research.

An installation of 20,000 teddy bears has been placed on the National Mall in Washington DC to draw attention to Ukrainian children believed to have been taken by Russia. The US-based Razom for Ukraine organisation and American Coalition for Ukraine installed the display to represent the estimated 20,000 children that Ukraine says have been sent […]

Two-up is a coin toss betting game, with two people betting against each other on whether they will land on heads or tails. Classified as unregulated gambling, the game is illegal in most parts of Australia. But on 25 April people rush to the pub to play, when it’s permitted across the country for a […]

Kosovo’s court sentences two men to life imprisonment and another to a 30-year term for the 2023 attack.

Piracy, once notorious in this stretch of the Indian Ocean, has made a comeback in recent years.

Iran’s new supreme leader is supposed to have the final say, but in practice the picture is far murkier.

The British Israeli man says he was detained after someone took offence at his kippah embroidered with Israeli and Palestinian flags.

It can recommend sanctions against someone under investigation, but the decision has to be taken by relevant EU authorities. Among the recommendations possible are judicial, financial, administrative and disciplinary, so that could include revoking the former commissioner’s pension.