US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school shooting was a hoax. A jury in Texas ruled the radio host
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Ukraine’s nuclear agency says Russian rockets have damaged part of a giant Russian-controlled nuclear power plant, but there has been no radiation leak. Enerhoatom said a nitrogen-oxygen unit and a high-voltage power
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Iran’s atomic energy chief says the country has the ability to build a nuclear weapon but has no plan to, an Iranian news agency reports. Mohammad Eslami’s comments echo a similar recent
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England Lionesses captain Leah Williamson is reported to have earned £200,000 last season. That may be almost eight times as high as the average UK salary, yet compared to the men’s England
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At least 30 people have now died in the Appalachia region of eastern Kentucky, as the region braces for more rainfall. At least six children – including four siblings, aged one to
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Supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have stormed parliament for the second time in a week. The protesters again breached the high-security Green Zone in Baghdad, as they oppose the nomination
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Devastating flash floods have killed at least 25 people in the Appalachia region of eastern Kentucky – the worst such disaster there for decades. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said he expected the
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John Boorman’s film about an outward-bound trip gone wrong was one of the most unnerving of the 1970s. Fifty years on, Adam Scovell talks to Boorman and explores its meaning. Based on
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Gas prices have soared after Russia further cut gas supplies to Germany and other central European countries after threatening to earlier this week. European gas prices rose almost 2%, trading close to
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Almost one million people in a suburb of Wuhan – China’s central city where the coronavirus was first recorded – have been placed under lockdown. Jiangxia district residents have been ordered to
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