Funerals have begun for the young victims of the Texas school shooting.

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Residents must get COVID tests every 72 hours to take public transport and enter venues. Anyone testing positive and their close contacts must quarantine.

A man masquerading as a wheelchair-bound elderly woman has hurled a piece of cake at the world’s best-known painting – the Mona Lisa - in a climate-related protest at the Louvre.

The city of Sievierodonetsk is key to Russian efforts to complete the capture of the eastern industrial region of the Donbas before more Western arms arrive to bolster Ukraine’s defence.

A man masquerading as a wheelchair-bound elderly woman has hurled a piece of cake at the world’s best-known painting in a climate-related protest.

As horrific a prospect that a long war may be, a Russian victory that would encourage further aggression in the future is much, much worse.

Prince Harry and Meghan have a habit of making unannounced appearances, so Palace insiders fret that a media circus will follow their every move during the four-day holiday weekend.

Footage shows children scrambling from windows moments after Uvalde gunman stormed primary school.

Texas is facing painful questions about the proliferation of guns and the permissive state laws that allowed the 18-year-old to legally buy the weapon used in the attack.

Rust' prop master Sarah Zachery is shown here being interviewed by Santa Fe County Sheriff's investigators.

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban - one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies in Europe - had obstructed a deal, insisting on more time and money to upgrade his country’s oil infrastructure.

Catriona Campbell, one of the UK’s leading authorities in artificial intelligence, calls them the Tamagotchi Generation, after the digital pet toy released in 1996.

Russian foreign minister denies Putin has serious illness.

Valentin Yumashev is the son-in-law of former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin.

A common refrain in battles about COVID-19 and vaccination, politics and conspiracy theories, parenting, drugs, food, stock trading and media, it signals not just a rejection of authority but often trust in another kind.

Aerial photos of the crash site showed aircraft parts scattered on rocks on the side of a mountain gorge.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has failed to get consensus from 10 nations to sign up to a trade and security pact.

Biden comforts Texas community as US government announces review into police response.

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