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President Joe Biden has signed into law a $1 trillion bill that gives him $24 billion more than he requested.

Chaos in Myanmar has allowed narcotics gangs to thrive, while crushing pandemic-induced poverty makes easy recruits out of young men up and down the border.

Somalia’s President says he had suspended the Prime Minister for suspected corruption. The US says it is “prepared to act”.

What do we know about Ghislaine Maxwell? What were the charges brought against her? What happened in the trial?

It was found further down below the Confederacy monument than another capsule found in September. Experts hope it is the long-rumoured official one.

The requests for transcripts and office supplies suggests jurors are carefully scrutinising the witness accounts, but weren’t enough to bring on a verdict yet.

The shift was motivated by studies showing COVID is mostly infectious in the first two days before symptoms appear and up to three days afterwards.

The SpaceX boss faced anger after China Space Station was forced to implement collision avoidance control.

The father of the teenager suspected of breaking into Windsor Castle grounds on Christmas Day said “something has gone horribly wrong” with his son.

Reluctant to cancel New Year’s Eve celebrations, the British Prime Minister refused to rein in clubs and parties, instead emphasising personal responsibility.

The trial, likely to be closely watched internationally, will examine whether a second round of boosters will help contend with the fast-spreading Omicron variant.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Monday aged 90, devoted his life to truth-telling, compassion and reconciliation.

In a kingdom where the long ban on cinema has only recently been lifted, young people in Jeddah have embraced a new festival culture that has brought film stars and DJ parties that allow mingling of the sexes.

The inconvenience of misplaced reading glasses could become a thing of the past for hundreds of thousands of Australians.

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Of all the passengers in the line, he was the only one submitted to the indignity of a body search.

The Duchess of Sussex has agreed “financial remedies” with The Mail on Sunday and Mail Online after a three-year legal battle.

For an Atayal leader, Chinese President Xi Jinping is ‘crazy’ to want to rule Taiwan. “We think it’s ridiculous.”

The very notion of what “fully vaccinated” means appears to be mutating as often as the virus.

From the Queen to the Dalai Lama, the daughter of Martin Luther King jnr and members of the LGBT community, the world pays homage to South Africa’s moral conscience.

The man used a rope ladder to scale a metal fence and was arrested in the grounds of the castle with a crossbow.

France has recorded more than 100,000 virus infections in a single day for the first time in the pandemic and COVID-19 hospitalisations have doubled over the past month, as the fast-spreading Omicron variant complicates the French government’s effo...

What to Expect When You’re Expecting has been a trusty companion for a generation of expectant parents. But those using the book’s app have also found a “community” section rife with scare stories and conspiracy theories.

Bird of prey with a wingspan almost three-metres wide drops animals from height on to rocks to feast on nutritious marrow within.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, has died aged 90.

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One popular reviewer of luxury hotels suddenly deleted his videos and replaced them with reviews of convenience store snacks.

Save the Children says two of its staff members who were passing through the area are missing following the atrocity, in which dozens of people were killed.

A man who entered the grounds of Windsor Castle, where the Queen is spending Christmas, has been arrested and is being held on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon, police said on Saturday.

Queen Elizabeth spoke of the loss of her husband Prince Philip on Saturday, remembering the “mischievous twinkle” in his eyes in an unusually personal Christmas message to the nation.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world a glimpse of the universe as it existed when the first galaxies formed, was launched by rocket early Saturday from South America’s northeastern coast, opening a new era of astronomy.

The massive fire engulfed the crowded river ferry in Bangladesh, leaving at least 39 people dead and 70 injured, officials said.

A parent identified only as Jared intruded on a feel-good Christmas children’s gathering with the infamous coded insult.

At a demonstration, a woman asked the TV for chocolate before slurping the image.

The largest, most expensive and most sophisticated space telescope ever made is scheduled to lift off from the north coast of South America.

Hospitalisations in this highly vaccinated nation have come in - so far - on the very low end of what was projected, despite the surge in infections.

A turbulent 12 months has united three royal households in adversity, but the divide between Prince Harry and the rest of his family is wider than ever.

Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centred on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.

Government data indicated about 10 per cent of Londoners were infected with COVID-19, as daily cases hit a record for a third day in the UK.

The man had made one of the most extraordinary discoveries of Renaissance artwork in years, experts from the British Museum in London said.

The mission to track Santa begins when a cluster of radar stations in northern Canada and Alaska pick up an infrared signature emanating from Rudolph’s nose.

Those who focus on the danger of surveillance in the everyday world find something creepy about the elf.

Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas message will have her sitting next to a photo of her and Philip taken for their diamond wedding anniversary.

“You demand from me some guarantees,” Putin said of Ukraine security. “You should give us guarantees. You! And right away, right now.”

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Some scientists warned that too many shots might cause a sort of immune system fatigue, compromising the body’s ability to fight the coronavirus.

Japan’s government signalled a more assertive position on China’s aggressive posture towards self-ruled Taiwan, suggesting it would prepare for “various scenarios”.

Potter, who is white, shot and killed the 20-year-old Wright, who was black, during an April 11 traffic stop as she and other officers were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant.

The Republican former president recently called the COVID-19 vaccines “one of the greatest achievements of mankind”.