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Iran and Egypt have complained after FIFA scheduled a World Cup match between the two nations in Seattle to coincide with the city's LGBTQ+ Pride festival.

Loved the world over for its pizzas and pasta, Italian cuisine has been given world heritage status by the UN's cultural agency.

Iceland has announced it is boycotting next year's Eurovision over Israel's participation in the competition, saying taking part would "neither be a source of joy nor peace".

At least 22 people are dead and more than a dozen injured after a double building collapse in Morocco.

The Duchess of Sussex has been able to contact her estranged father in hospital via a letter, her spokesperson has confirmed.

A Fabergé pendant has been recovered - after police spent six days closely monitoring the man accused of swallowing it.

An earthquake alert preparing people to "drop, cover, hold on" buzzed on phones in the US on Thursday - but turned out to be completely false.

A raccoon has gotten as drunk as a skunk.

It's a debate that's torn families apart for years - with selection boxes thrown in rage, and stony silences around the dinner table.

"Christmas is saved" after a large search operation for a runaway reindeer found the animal on a beach in Merseyside, emergency services have said.

COVID-19 fraud and error cost the taxpayer nearly £11bn, a government watchdog has found.

Kemi Badenoch has refused to say that the Conservatives are intending to win next May's local elections, despite being repeatedly pushed on the issue.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire.

Patients with a previously untreatable form of blood cancer are now living disease-free after a world-first gene therapy.

The UK's biggest water supplier has been dealt another blow as the regulator decided to reduce its income.

The trouble with the scientific evidence behind the social media ban in Australia is that there is not more of it.

GCHQ has released its annual Christmas challenge, with seven puzzles aimed to put the nation's codebreaking skills to the test.

Australian has become the world's first country to implement a social media ban for under-16s.

Do you suffer from ringing in your ears? For millions of people in the UK who do, researchers say they may have found a solution.

Patients with a previously untreatable form of blood cancer are now living disease-free after a world-first gene therapy.

Iceland has announced it is boycotting next year's Eurovision over Israel's participation in the competition, saying taking part would "neither be a source of joy nor peace".

Sophie Kinsella, the author of the Shopaholic series of novels, has died aged 55, her family have said.

A huge takeover that would rock the entertainment industry looks imminent, with Netflix and Paramount fighting over Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).

Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner Prize with two exhibitions, including a series of brightly coloured sculptures.

Punk-rap duo Bob Vylan are suing Irish national broadcaster RTE for defamation, claiming it misrepresented chants led by the band when they played this year's Glastonbury festival.

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has acknowledged there were "too many leaks" in the run-up to last month's budget.

Sir Keir Starmer has called for a tougher approach to policing Europe's borders ahead of a meeting between leaders to discuss a potential shake-up of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The boss of a supermarket chain, a former head of communications for No 10 and an Olympic swimmer turned women's rights activist are among those to have received a peerage.

Sir Keir Starmer has declared it his "moral mission" to "turn the tide on the lost decade of young kids left as collateral damage".

Kemi Badenoch has refused to say that the Conservatives are intending to win next May's local elections, despite being repeatedly pushed on the issue.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire.

Sophie Kinsella, the author of the Shopaholic series of novels, has died aged 55, her family have said.

Some Australian kids are already outsmarting the government and the tech companies.

At least 22 people are dead and more than a dozen injured after a double building collapse in Morocco.

Iran and Egypt have complained after FIFA scheduled a World Cup match between the two nations in Seattle to coincide with the city's LGBTQ+ Pride festival.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire.

The UK armed forces member who died in Ukraine yesterday has been named by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as 28-year-old Lance Corporal George Hooley of the Parachute Regiment.

Sophie Kinsella, the author of the Shopaholic series of novels, has died aged 55, her family have said.

Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy, an "outstanding" secondary in east London, humiliated pupils with harsh and harmful discipline; a damning safeguarding review has found.

GCHQ has released its annual Christmas challenge, with seven puzzles aimed to put the nation's codebreaking skills to the test.