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The International Space Station returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who left early because of health concerns. SpaceX delivered the US, French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral. Last month’s medical evacuation was Nasa’s first in 65 years of human spaceflight. One […]

Carnival celebrations returned to Brazilian cities with glittery, outrageous costumes, samba rhythms ringing out until dawn and hundreds of raucous roaming parties flooding the streets. Carnival King Momo, Danilo Vieira, receives the key of the city from Mayor Eduardo Paes during a ceremony officially kicking off Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Silvia Izquierdo/AP) A reveller […]

The US military on Saturday reported a series of strikes against so-called Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria in retaliation for the December ambush that killed two US soldiers and one American civilian interpreter. US Central Command said in a statement that American aircraft had conducted 10 strikes against more than 30 IS targets […]

Police in Arizona investigating the disappearance of TV host Savannah Guthrie’s mother have seized a vehicle from a parking lot and sealed off a road near Nancy Guthrie’s home. A parade of sheriff’s and FBI vehicles, including forensics vehicles, passed through the roadblock that was set up about two miles from the house. The two […]

Peter Mandelson has been photographed for the first time since being asked to give evidence to the US Congress over his relationship with the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. The peer was seen leaving his north-west London home on Saturday, after two US politicians wrote to him on Friday asking that he appear in front of […]

Supporters of Iran ‘s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi were looking on Saturday to world leaders gathered in Munich to ratchet up pressure for change on the Iranian government. Banging drums and chanting for regime change, the large and boisterous demonstration in Munich was part of what Prince Reza Pahlavi described as a “global day […]

Bangladesh’s incoming leader said on Saturday that he would work to build a more democratic country, overcoming challenges related to weak institutions after his party secured an election victory. Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a majority in Thursday’s election in the 350-member Parliament. An 11-member alliance led by the Jamaat-e-Islami party, the country’s […]

Britain has blamed the Kremlin for killing opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was likely done using a poison developed from a dart frog toxin. Two years on from the death of Navalny at a Siberian penal colony, the UK and its allies have pinned the blame on the Russian state following analysis of […]

Supporters of Iran ‘s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi were looking on Saturday to world leaders gathered in Munich, Germany, to ratchet up pressure for change on the Iranian government. Prince Reza Pahlavi called for demonstrations in Munich, Los Angeles and Toronto on what he described as a “global day of action”, urging supporters to […]

The first official Eurovision Song Contest live tour, which was set to visit London this summer, has been cancelled because of “unforeseen challenges”. The organisation has apologised to fans in a message posted to the official Eurovision website, where it has announced the event will be rescheduled at a later date. The Eurovision Song Contest […]