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A three-year-old boy who ended up in a zoo’s crocodile enclosure is no longer in a critical condition and is now stable in hospital, police have said. The boy, from Cambridgeshire, was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge last Thursday following the incident at Johnsons of Old Hurst. A 30-year-old man from Norfolk was arrested […]

France is enduring a gruelling heatwave with temperatures soaring above 40C. The national weather service, Meteo France, said that most of the country is entering what is described as a “plateau” of unrelenting heatwave conditions that is not forecast to start easing before Friday at the earliest. Multiple towns in western and central France, including […]

Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as British Prime Minister less than two years after coming to power. In a statement outside 10 Downing Street, Starmer said his party had asked: “whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election”. He said: “I have heard the answer of my parliamentary […]

Three pupils have been killed and another seven were injured after two young students opened fire in a high school in the central Philippines, police said. The suspects, aged 14 and 15, were armed with one pistol each. They were later arrested. The suspects and the victims were students of the San Jose National High […]

Confirmed cases in the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have passed the 1,000 mark, including 254 deaths, officials said. A total of 100 people have recovered in the outbreak concentrated in the Ituri province since it was declared on May 15, Congo’s health ministry said. A total of 1,003 cases […]

Oliver Tree’s body has been returned to California after the singer-songwriter died in a helicopter crash in Brazil at the age of 32. The musician died on June 14th while on a world tour for his latest album. A foundation for aspiring musicians will be set up in his honour, according to wishes laid out […]

The funeral of David Hockney has taken place in private with just his partner Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima and great-nephew Richard in attendance, his publicist has confirmed. A number of memorial services for the artist will take place from next year after Hockney, best known for works such as The Splash, A Bigger Splash, and […]

New Sky TV show The Wargame will see former Conservative MP Michael Gove navigate war with Russia as the prime minister of a fictional cross-party cabinet. The four-part series, produced by The Garden as part of ITV Studios, is based on the Sky podcast of the same name and will take viewers into fictional Cobr-style […]

Pope Leo has exalted the first American saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today to care for migrants in need, as he visited her birthplace during a day trip to northern Italy. Leo, who has clashed with the Trump administration over its migrant crackdown, urged young people in particular to learn about […]

France is putting emergency services and military forces on wildfire alert, restricting public alcohol consumption and cancelling some outdoor sporting events to cope with a heatwave baking parts of Europe. About a third of France is under the national weather service’s heat red alert and temperatures are high nationwide, with 40C likely to be reached […]