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Firefighters are battling a blaze on the top two floors of a high-rise building in New York City.

An Australian boy attacked by a shark in Sydney Harbour has died in hospital, his family has announced.

Donald Trump has paid tribute to the "very brave" British soldiers who served in Afghanistan after fierce criticism of his claim that non-US troops had stayed back from the frontline.

China is no longer the US Pentagon's top priority, shifting its focus to the homeland and Western Hemisphere, an influential new strategy document says.

A senior Iranian official has warned that the country will treat any attack "as an all-out war against us" ahead of the arrival of a US aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the region.

Steve Coogan says he doesn't want to fully be part of the British establishment because you cannot "get rid of the history which weighs heavily on all of us".

Ukraine says the Paralympics should not have lifted its ban on Russia - disputing its claim it is no longer clear that sport is being used to promote the war.

When Dr Ronan Lee spoke to members of the Rohingya community, he heard "blood-curdling accounts" of killings and sexual violence allegedly carried out by Myanmar's security forces.

Police investigating the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old boy in Surrey have charged two teenage boys with murder.

Senior Tories claim the government is in retreat on its controversial Chagos Islands handover, after the latest showdown in parliament was unexpectedly postponed.

A grieving mother has said her teenage son, who died in a car crash that also killed three others, was "my heart, my soul, my everything".

Labour's high command is attempting to bounce Andy Burnham into a super-quick decision on a Commons by-election comeback, giving him just 24 hours to decide.

A former Olympic snowboarder accused of drug trafficking and setting up the murder of a federal witness, has been arrested, the head of the FBI has said.

He is the Lewisham-born actor who, at the age of 73, finds himself in the running for an Oscar.

I have rarely seen Sir Keir Starmer angry.

The co-owner of the Swiss bar where 40 people died in a fire has been released on bail.

Robert Jenrick has published private texts allegedly from a Tory official after the party's leader, Kemi Badenoch, accused him of lying.

Prince Harry has joined Sir Keir Starmer in criticising false claims by Donald Trump that British and NATO troops were not on the frontline in Afghanistan.

Veterans and their families, Downing Street and MPs have reacted with fury after Donald Trump claimed NATO troops - including those from Britain - stayed "a little off the frontlines" in Afghanistan.

Switzerland has been neutral ground in the heart of Europe for more than 500 years. This week, Davos provided a safe space for a full-frontal assault on the continent's economic and political model that will be felt long after the canapes are cleared.