“The whole health system has been destroyed,” says the head doctor at the only Kabul hospital still open to coronavirus patients.

Using new techniques, scientists have dated human remains to about 10,000 years earlier than previous finds in Europe.

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Why parents, politicians and school officials around the US are challenging books at a rate that experts and librarians say is unprecedented.

The prince is being prepared for his interview under oath after his Newsnight interview prompted fears he would not perform well under pressure.

The French national of Moroccan origin said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State 48 hours before the 2015 Paris attacks but that he had harmed no one. 

Visitors last month spotted the additions scrawled in pen on faceless subjects of Three Figures by Anna Leporskaya, one of Russia’s greatest avant-garde painters.

Audit shows the charity set up in the name of Captain Tom paid more than £53,000 into private companies owned by the late centenarian’s daughter and her husband.

States like New York and Massachusetts are winding back COVID-19 restrictions as the surge in cases eases.

Up to 40 of the 49 small satellites launched last week have either reentered the atmosphere and burned up, or are on the verge of doing so, the company said in an online update.

The centrepiece of the auction was an NFT artwork, Clock, that displays the number of days Julian Assange has been imprisoned. It updates each day.

Military planes, stopovers, Chinese support away from Asia... an island at the bottom of South America is back in the headlines.

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The CEO of Brisbane-based firm Tritium blames a lack of government incentives for Australia having one of the worst electric vehicle uptakes in the world.

Six large landing vessels will take part in an exercise, the Russian navy said. The Russian military has in the past used that as a bluff before invasions.

In Kyiv (not Kiev), in Ukraine (not the Ukraine), every word can be political, and the campaign for the national language is huge online.

Bing Dwen Dwen has all the attributes of a star but he also has one key advantage: an army of Chinese government accounts fuelling his viral rise.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell pushed back hard against the Republican Party’s characterisation of the January 6 riot as “legitimate political discourse”.

The roughly four-metre crocodile had generated sympathy among some who feared the tyre might eventually choke the reptile as it grew in size. It had proved very difficult to capture.

It’s also emerged that during Putin and Macron’s media conference, the Russian leader referenced a song lyric about rape in discussing Ukraine.

The facility, in the Dutch city of Leiden, has instead been making an experimental but potentially more profitable vaccine to protect against an unrelated virus, according to the report. 

Whatever Camilla Parker-Bowles is to be called after Prince Charles becomes king is catnip for the royal-watchers. But for the rest of us, it’s another absurdity.

“How many ways can you say you’re sorry? Joe, just go about what you do so well and don’t let them make you look weak and frightened.”

The tectonic plates of the international order are moving and Australia finds itself very much in the earthquake zone.

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The Russian President used a five-hour meeting with his French counterpart to keep the world guessing about his Ukraine intentions.

Rawiri Waititi, co-leader of the Maori Party, said in a statement Sunday that a split with the British royals would “be an opportunity to reimagine a more meaningful and fulfilling partnership”.

Despite political divisions, there is “high interest” among both Democrats and Republicans to make AUKUS succeed in the face of a more aggressive China.

She sided with Mike Pence against her father, now those investigating the riot want to know what else Ivanka Trump heard and saw that day.

French President Emmanuel Macron has become the highest-profile Western leader to visit Moscow since Russia began massing troops on the border with Ukraine.

High-ranking officials are sending their children to overseas state schools and universities despite removing millions of girls from schooling since they seized power in Afghanistan.

On Friday, the British PM was rocked by the departure of five senior staff, including his chief of staff, his communications director and his policy director.

As the Beijing Winter Games elicit comparisons with Berlin 1936, China’s President Xi Jinping and ‘best friend’ Vladimir Putin have used this global moment to brazenly parade their authoritarian ambitions.

The detailed plan includes several controversial proposals but could help shape the debate over the decades-long conflict.

Australian alpine skier Katie Parker faces the prospect of testing positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Beijing, as she makes a last-ditch scramble to take her place at the Winter Olympics.

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Australia’s Kingsgate Consolidated has been given the green light to restart operations five years after Thailand’s then military government shut it down.

Donald Trump’s habit of shredding paper extended throughout his US presidency, resulting in special practices by his staffers to deal with the torn fragments of historical documents.

Major General Christopher Donahue, who on August 30 appeared in a grainy night vision image from the tarmac on the ground in Kabul, has appeared again, this time in Poland.

Due to security concerns, PM Justin Trudeau and his family left their downtown home last weekend and his location has not been disclosed.

The role of Boris Johnson’s wife in Downing Street is under fresh scrutiny after a biography containing claims about her wanting to “control everything” was serialised.

As the Ukraine crisis unfolds, Scholz’s imitation of Angela Merkel is less convincing. She was understated and studious, and often kept her work behind the scenes, but she was not invisible.

The backlash to a Holocaust exhibition in Indonesia has offered a glimpse into life for the tiny minority group in a nation of more than 250 million Muslims.

Charles responds to his mother’s public vote of confidence as he joins world and religious leaders to mark the Queen’s 70th year on the throne.

Mangeshkar’s voice has rung out for most of independent India’s three quarters of a century, earning her the title of “the Nightingale”.

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The Queen is clearly happy that her son and heir is with the woman who is the love of his life. Camilla can be the rock that Philip was for the Queen for so many years.

France has opened an inquiry into the “shocking” images of tens of thousands of dead fish.

Prince Andrew’s lawyers have previously called the lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre as “baseless”.

On the day of her platinum jubilee the Queen has spoken out about “loyal” Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.