While Tonga’s neighbours struggled to access information about what was happening on the ground, scientists, equipped with modern monitoring technology, saw the blast in real time.

The North Korean regime fired two ballistic missiles from Pyongyang airport on Monday, demonstrating the depth of Kim Jong-un’s arsenal, say analysts.

Two teenagers have been arrested in England in connection with the gunman was killed in the Sunday stand-off.

In the five years since California voters approved a legal market for marijuana, farms have sprouted but say they can’t survive on legal pot alone.

The traditional night-time celebration takes place in San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain.

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A growing trend to contract COVID-19 at a “convenient” time has health officials worried.

Friends and associates of the pair say their “easy warmth” suggested an intimate relationship in the past.

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic said his nation could not understand Australia’s treatment of the unvaccinated world tennis number one.

Prince Harry has filed a claim for a judicial review against the British government’s decision not to let him personally pay for police protection while in the UK.

The case could result in the former president and opposition leader being banned from politics.

The country has so far been free of the disease.

The people of Tonga witnessed a catastrophic event. We must hope there are no further eruptions.

The extent of damage in Tonga following a volcanic eruption remains unknown, with authorities yet to make contact with some coastal areas and smaller islands.

Rodrigo Duterte’s government will acquire a shore-based anti-ship missile system from India to beef up its navy.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in her lawsuit accusing the British royal of sexually abusing her at age 17.

Donald Trump has set the scene for a fiery midterm election year at his first rally for 2022. But there are signs some Republicans are not behind him.

Cerruti gave Giorgio Armani his break, gave Hollywood movie stars style and was even the fashion designer for a Formula 1 team.

At least three hostages were believed to be still inside the synagogue, when the siege finally ended.

Doctors thought “space anaemia” was a temporary problem, but new research shows it could interfere with future planned missions.

Some scientists are warning we may be underestimating the potential for the virus to do more damage.

New court documents show the royal’s defence team wants to interview two Australians over his accuser’s “false memories”. Her team requested other witnesses.

Four people in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco, were swept into the water, and two were taken to a hospital, a spokeswoman from the local fire department said.

Alec Baldwin has surrendered his mobile phone to authorities as part of the investigation into a fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last fall, a law enforcement official said.

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Fresh from imperilling one Olympic Games in Tokyo last year, COVID-19 has its tentacles around another.

The 33-year-old has emerged as a key witness, as the Duke of York alleges he was with his daughter at a Pizza Express in Woking on the night at the centre of the claims against him.

In an open letter, more than 270 medical professionals urge Spotify to stop “enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research”.

Agency officials noted some masks are harder to tolerate than others, and urged people to choose good-fitting masks that they will wear consistently.

“Why do you mistreat him, why do you harass him, as well as his family and a nation that is free and proud?” asked Serbia’s president.

While the pandemic forces schools to innovate, the vexed debate over whether to keep classrooms open has also exposed new fault lines between teachers, parents and governments.

Ask any Brit to conjure up their most vivid image of Boris Johnson and chances are it would be his stunt-gone-wrong during the London Olympics. Now, almost 10 years later, his career hangs by a far more tenuous wire.

A US official said Russia has already positioned a group of operatives to conduct “a false-flag operation” in eastern Ukraine, as a pretext for an invasion.

The office of Britain’s prime minister has apologised to the Queen for two parties held at Downing Street the night before she buried her husband Prince Philip and when the country was in mourning.

A New York judge has given the green light for a civil trial to go ahead against the prince. What legal avenues are open to him now?

A United Nations panel of experts that monitors sanctions on North Korea has accused Pyongyang of using stolen funds to support its nuclear and ballistic missile programs to circumvent sanctions.

Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov raised the stakes over Ukraine by saying he could not exclude the possibility of a military deployment to Cuba and Venezuela if tensions with the US rose.

In announcing that Prince Andrew’s “military affiliations and Royal patronages have been returned to the Queen”, Buckingham Palace made clear that they will never be returned.

The gathering is the first allegation of lockdown-breaking in Downing Street in 2021 to have emerged, marking a new front in the row engulfing Boris Johnson.

The subpoenas to the tech companies are the latest development in the House Select Committee’s investigation into the causes of the attack on the US Capitol by former President Donald Trump’s supporters.

At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the US.

“The Duke of York will continue not to undertake any public duties and is defending this case as a private citizen,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

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Stewart Rhodes, the highest-ranking member of the extremist group to be arrested in the siege, is the first to be charged for seditious conspiracy by the Justice Department.

The spy agency used a bombshell memo to British MPs to identify a Chinese spy accused of conducting covert interference operations in the UK.

The man being heralded as a medical pioneer, David Bennett snr, was the same man who’d been convicted in 1988 of stabbing Leslie Shumaker Downey’s younger brother.

“The introduction of live rounds onto the set, which no one anticipated, combined with the rushed and chaotic atmosphere, created a perfect storm”: lawsuit.

The World Health Organisation has reiterated its stance that vaccination status should not be used to disqualify people from travelling internationally.

Forecasters are expecting similar trends elsewhere in the country but the ongoing strain on some hospitals continues.

French leader lays out plans to ramp up the Continent’s defence autonomy during his six months at the helm. France would be in pole position for contracts.