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A migrant worker who was killed in an aerial attack on the United Arab Emirates on the first day of the Iran war would not have been outside if he had known the conflict had started, his son says.

A drug dealer has admitted beating a vulnerable former chef to death after allegedly forcing him to sleep beside dogs.

Beirut's southern suburbs have been subjected to waves of airstrikes by the Israeli military, but it has been virtually impossible to document the damage they cause. 

The Russian flag has returned to the global sporting stage, appearing at the Winter Paralympics for the first time in over a decade.

There are three types of people in Dubai right now: those off to play padel, those rushing to the Omani border, and those waiting for house prices to drop.

More than 300 people, including women and children, have been abducted by Islamic militants who attacked a town in northeastern Nigeria, officials have said.

The UK's ambassador to Israel alerted London weeks in advance that an attack on Iran by US and Israeli forces was highly likely, a former diplomat at the embassy has revealed.

Russian intelligence is suspected of being behind several air freight fires around Europe, including one in Birmingham.

German media giant Axel Springer is to buy Telegraph Media Group in a £575m deal that will see the Daily and Sunday Telegraph print titles and their online business come under overseas ownership.

For years, geopolitical analysts warned us that among the scariest of all scenarios for the world economy was the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The BBC regrets its "serious mistake" during the BAFTAs broadcast, the corporation's outgoing director general Tim Davie has said.

The spotlight is once again on the Kurds in the Middle East.

The foreign minister of Cyprus told Sky News that British bases are the target of military action, not his country, as he expressed his "dissatisfaction" with the UK's response to the Iran war.

Mojtaba Khamenei has been confirmed as the new Iranian supreme leader - only the third in its history.

Britney Spears was spotted driving "erratically" before her arrest on suspicion of operating her vehicle under the influence, police say.

Pakistani and Afghan troops have been exchanging fire along their border in their conflict, which the United Nations estimates has displaced more than 100,000 people.

Two 16-year-old boys have been charged over the murder of a man at a skate park. 

Indonesia has become the latest, and most populous, country to say it will ban social media for under-16s. 

Some water companies are instructing bailiffs as they try to recover customers' debt more than 6,000 times in a single year, new data reveals.

Three women have been interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan Police over suspicions of enabling Mohamed al Fayed's abuse.