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A Belgian collector who put up for online auction a series of Second World War photographs showing the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad, signed a preliminary agreement with Greece on Friday and has withdrawn the photos from sale, Greece’s culture ministry said. Greece is seeking to obtain the photos […]

Barcelona’s towering Sagrada Familia basilica reached its maximum height on Friday, though the magnum opus of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi remains years away from completion. A crane placed the upper arm of a cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ, the church’s soaring central piece, which now stands 566 feet above the city, the church […]

An Austrian court has convicted a man of manslaughter caused by gross negligence, after his girlfriend froze to death as the couple attempted to climb the country’s highest peak last year. The 37-year-old defendant was given a five-month suspended sentence and a 9,600-euro (£8,380) fine in a verdict handed down by the Innsbruck state court […]

Quentin Griffiths, who co-founded British ‌fast-fashion retailer ASOS, has died after a fall from a balcony ‌in Thailand, Thai police said on Friday. Police told Reuters that Griffiths, ​58, had fallen from the 17th floor of an apartment block in the seaside resort city of Pattaya on February 9th. The ​police went to the scene […]

UK Athletics has pleaded guilty to the corporate manslaughter of a Paralympian who was hit on the head by a metal pole during training. Abdullah Hayayei, 36, who represented the United Arab Emirates, was fatally injured at Newham Leisure Centre in east London on July 11th, 2017. He was preparing to represent his country in […]

When Thai police were having trouble catching a serial burglar who repeatedly slipped through their fingers, they came up with a creative plan: going undercover in a traditional lion costume to get close to their quarry. Video footage released by the Bangkok police department showed officers hidden beneath a red-and-gold lion costume dancing toward the […]

Sinn Féin, which this week declared it would not attend St Patrick’s Day events in the White House, was not invited by the Trump administration, the US embassy has said. In a statement issued to The Irish Times in response to questions, the US ambassador to Ireland, Edward Walsh, said that “no members of Sinn […]

Nasa has taken another crack at fuelling its giant moon rocket after leaks halted a initial dress rehearsal and delayed the first lunar trip by astronauts in more than half a century. For the second time this month, launch teams pumped more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of supercold fuel into the rocket atop […]

US president Donald Trump said on Thursday he would direct federal agencies to begin releasing government files related ​to aliens and unidentified flying objects, pointing to what he described as strong public interest in the issue. In a social media post, Trump said he would order Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and other agencies to release […]

US president Donald Trump has said the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is “so bad for the royal family”. His comments came after the former prince was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his ties to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking to reporters as travelled to Georgia for an event, Mr Trump praised […]