Actor Will Smith has broken his silence after he slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.

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Marred by violence, the three-week election started on July 4 has not yet concluded.

Russia and Ukraine are blaming each other for a rocket attack that killed dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Her public relations team said earlier this week that the artist has deposited the amount she is said to owe in taxes, including €3 million in interest.

At least 16 people are dead following catastrophic flooding in Kentucky, the governor said, warning that more fatalities were expected.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed the bill but it will struggle in the Senate. And she all but confirmed she’s heading to Asia Pacific next week.

Among them a Neighbours-mad Belfast couple whose marriage proposal and wedding involved Paul Robinson.

The suspect, who is a forest firefighter as well as a volunteer fireman for the local town, confessed to “starting several fires over the past three years”.

The first monkeypox death in Europe and the Americas came less than a week after the WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency.

An English court has ruled in favour of Coleen Rooney in the so-called Wagatha Christie showdown.

The US has technically entered a recession, but the Biden administration won’t admit it.

A Perth couple is recovering after falling into a sinkhole in the New Zealand town of Rotorua.

NZ Labour led in 52 consecutive published polls since the start of the pandemic. This year’s polls tell a different story.

The attack shattered the sense of normalcy that has returned to life in Kyiv since Russian forces abandoned attempts to capture the city in the first weeks of the war.

The debate shows how tangled our feelings about fashion still are and how entrenched the view of it as a non-serious subject remains.

A study estimates the project will result in a five-fold rise in deforestation by 2030, the equivalent of an area more than twice the size of Tasmania.

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Nationally, US health officials said the monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, despite rising case numbers and so-far limited vaccine supplies.

US recession fears grow as economy dips for second consecutive quarter.