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British prime minister Keir Starmer‘s government on Monday abandoned plans to delay 30 local council elections due in May after ​being advised it could lose a legal challenge, piling fresh pressure on him after a series of policy U-turns. Starmer survived a leadership crisis last week, and his governing Labour Party is widely expected to […]

Austrian public prosecutors filed terrorism-related charges on Monday against a 21-year-old defendant who they say planned to carry out an attack on one of US pop star Taylor Swift’s concerts in Vienna in August 2024. Vienna public prosecutors said in a statement that the unnamed defendant had declared allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group […]

Logan Paul has set a new world record – for the auction price of a trading card. The wrestling and social media star’s rare Pickachu Illustrator Pokemon card, a “Holy Grail” for collectors, sold for 16.5 million dollars (£12.1 million) on Monday at Goldin Auctions after 41 days of bidding. Paul had purchased the card […]

An injured seabird sought help by pecking at the door of an emergency department at a hospital in Germany until medical staff noticed it and called firefighters to help with its rescue. The cormorant had a triple fishing hook stuck in its beak when it made its presence known at the glass door of the […]

X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter, crashed on Monday hitting thousands of users. The platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk was hit by a global outage early in the afternoon but was restored after around two hours. The issue prevented users from accessing the platform on web browsers, through its app or completing […]

Northern Ireland’s First Minister has been questioned over engagement with China, but not US president Donald Trump. It came in the Stormont Assembly after Michelle O’Neill confirmed that she would not attend St Patrick’s Day events in the White House next month due to the situation in Gaza. O’Neill is repeating a stance she took […]

A man accused of killing 15 people in a terror attack targeting a Hanukkah event at Australia’s Bondi Beach has appeared in court for the first time. Naveed Akram, 24, is accused of 15 counts of murder and one count of committing a terrorist act over the attack in which dozens of people were injured […]

US secretary of state Marco Rubio was in the Hungarian capital on Monday for meetings with Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his government during which they plan to sign a civilian-nuclear co-operation agreement heralded by US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump has been outspoken in his support for the nationalist Mr Orban in the Hungarian […]

Donald Trump has said members of his so-called Board of Peace have pledged 5 billion dollars (£3.6 billion) towards rebuilding war-ravaged Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilisation and police forces for the territory. The pledges will be formally announced when board members gather in Washington on Thursday for their first meeting, […]

British pop star Charli xcx was everywhere in 2024, when the “brat summer” cultural phenomenon her album unleashed even made its ​way into US presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ campaign. Some two years since the neon-green party album “Brat” vaulted her into stardom, Charli xcx is characteristically closing that chapter on her own terms with mockumentary […]