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Turkey: Foreign tourists evacuated as wildfires threaten resorts

Tokyo Olympics: Armand Duplantis glad to have avoided coffee with Sam Kendricks

Oliver Warders! News update 216

Oliver Warders! News update 216

Simone Biles withdraws from floor final at Tokyo Olympics

Simone Biles criticism baffles Callum Skinner: Mental health 'not death of sport'

Tokyo Olympics: Charlotte Worthington wins BMX freestyle gold for Great Britain

Nairobi - the centre of East Africa's thriving arts scene

Anti-eviction lawmaker camps overnight on US Capitol steps

The women fighting infertility stigma in Nigeria

Kris Wu: K-Pop star arrested on suspicion of rape

SolarWinds: Top US prosecutors hit by suspected Russian hack

Double GB gold in new mixed events

Tokyo Olympics: Elaine Thompson-Herah defends 100m title

Tokyo Olympics: The medal winners' flowers that pay tribute to 2011 disaster

Dressel sets world record to win third Tokyo gold

Tokyo Olympics: Georgia athletes removed from Games after sightseeing trip

ICYMI: Decoding feline feelings and a breathtaking bungee jump

Afghanistan: Fighting rages as Taliban besiege three key cities

Billie Eilish opens up on internet trolls

Tokyo Olympics: Novak Djokovic loses to Pablo Carreno Busta in bronze-medal match

Australia Covid: Brisbane lockdown after Delta variant cases

Simone Biles: Tokyo Olympics gymnast withdraws from two more events

Nigerian sprinter Okagbare fails drugs test

Elon Musk: 'I don't want to be CEO of anything'

Woman charged for disturbing Yellowstone mother grizzly

Russia stops Cubans trying to enter EU by air bed

Amanda Knox claims Matt Damon film Stillwater profits from her life

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta criticises 'vaccine nationalism'

Deadly oil tanker attack in Arabian Sea

Tokyo Olympics: Who are the contenders for Usain Bolt's 100m crown?

Amazon hit with $886m fine for alleged data breach

Australia to return 14 artworks of disputed provenance to India

China nuclear: Taishan reactor shut down over damaged fuel rods

Critics praise 'defiant' Billie Eilish album

Turkey fires: Blazes threaten Marmaris and other coastal resorts

Djokovic's 'golden Grand Slam' bid thwarted

Covid-19 pandemic: Japan widens emergency over 'frightening' spike

Tokyo Olympics: Kenya's runners form 'mum's club'

Hong Kong: First person sentenced under security law gets nine years jail

Deal agreed for patients and children of fertility doctor who used own sperm

Nanjing: New China virus outbreak worst after Wuhan, says state media

Russian module mishap destabilises International Space Station

Hong Kong crowd booing China's anthem sparks police probe

Oliver Warders! News update 215

Oliver Warders! News update 215

Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown

Didi: Chinese ride-hailing giant denies plans to go private

Tokyo Olympics: Novak Djokovic thrashes Kei Nishikori to reach men's semi-finals

Tokyo Olympics: How to think like a champion

Covid-19: Biden tells states to offer $100 vaccine incentive as cases rise

First group of evacuated Afghan interpreters arrives in US

Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over streaming of Black Widow

Theodore McCarrick: Defrocked US cardinal charged with assault and battery

American Lee takes gold as Biles watches on

Afghanistan Taliban: Flash flooding kills dozens in remote province

Johnny Ventura: Dominican merengue legend dies aged 81

Hushpuppi: Nigerian influencer pleads guilty to money laundering

Daphne Caruana Galizia: Malta responsible for journalist death - inquiry

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Fighting escalates despite ceasefire

Israel investigating shooting of Palestinian boy in West Bank

Global education summit targets pandemic-hit schooling

Bob Odenkirk: Better Call Saul actor 'stable' after 'heart-related incident' during filming

Netflix US cast and crew must be vaccinated to work

I am more than my accomplishments, Biles says

China interest in Afghanistan could be 'positive', says US Blinken

Outspoken billionaire Sun Dawu jailed for 18 years in China

Australian athletics team isolating in Tokyo

Tokyo Olympics: Caeleb Dressel breaks Olympic record on way to second gold

Tokyo Olympics rowing: Ireland's Paul O'Donovan & Fintan McCarthy win lightweight men's double sculls

From garden pool to Olympic gold

Gaza photographer hopes digital art boom can help raise aid money

Covid vaccines: Tourists head to the US to get vaccinated

Arthur: Popular children's show to end after 25 years

Colorado officer arrested after threatening to shoot suspect during stop

Dusty Hill: ZZ Top founding bassist dies aged 72

Bosnian Serbs defy top UN official Inzko over genocide denial

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue and his love of Bugattis and Michael Jackson

Pedro Castillo: The primary school teacher who became Peru's president

Remington: US gunmaker offers $33m to Sandy Hook shooting victims

Man on scooter steals millions from upmarket Paris jeweller

Shamook: Star Wars effects company ILM hires Mandalorian deepfaker

Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan gets Covid jab in policy reverse

Sweden charges man over 1988 Iran prison massacre

Bob Odenkirk: Better Call Saul star collapses on set of Breaking Bad spin-off

Tokyo Olympics: Why 'superhuman' Simone Biles could change attitudes to mental health in sport

China building nuclear missile silo field, scientists say

Petrol bombs thrown at Cuban embassy in Paris

Star gymnast Biles withdraws from all-around final

Kris Wu: Why a superstar sparked China's sexual consent debate

Barabanki accident: Eighteen die after truck crashes into bus in India

Let more Afghan interpreters resettle in UK, say ex-military chiefs

Oliver Warders! News update 214

Oliver Warders! News update 214

New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

Israel-Gaza conflict: Apparent war crimes committed, says rights group

Greece: Forest fire rips through area near Athens

Capitol riot: Officers describe racial slurs at 6 January hearing

Atlanta spa shootings: Georgia man pleads guilty

Biles says mental health concerns led to pull out

Activision staff condemn firm's response to harassment claims

Leverkusen blast: German chemical plant explosion leaves one dead

Dad builds robotic 'exo-skeleton' to help son walk

Man in contraption washes up in Florida after trying to run on water

Britney Spears officially requests new conservator to replace her father

DaBaby's HIV and gay comments 'perpetuate discrimination'

Wright wins first ever Olympic surfing medal

Beach handball: 'It's shocking to have to pay to not play in our pants'

Vatican's Cardinal Becciu on trial in $412m fraud case

Tokyo Olympics: Flora Duffy claims historic first gold for Bermuda

Hong Kong: First person charged under national security law found guilty

Tokyo Olympics: Naomi Osaka loses to Marketa Vondrousova in women's singles tennis

Sri Lanka: World's largest star sapphire cluster found in backyard

Assam-Mizoram clash: Why are Indian policemen firing at each other?

China stocks see biggest slump in US since 2008 financial crisis

Malcolm Turnbull: Australia ex-PM says vaccine rollout 'a colossal failure'

North and South Korea restore communication hotline

German lawyers wrangle over pensioner's WW2 tank in basement

AKO Caine Prize: Meron Hadero named first Ethiopian winner

White House: US to maintain Covid foreign travel restrictions

Tokyo Olympics: German women's gymnastics team wears full-body suits

Greece seeks spear fisher who killed famous seal

Tunisia: Key moments as political turmoil unfolds

US accused of demonising China in high-level talks

Sandstorm swallows city in northwestern China

Maharashtra: How one city avoided worst of India floods

Afghanistan: Record civilian casualties in 2021, UN reports

Pink offers to pay bikini bottoms fine for Norway women's handball team

Climate change: Researchers begin discussions on vital report

Tokyo Olympics: Momiji Nishiya wins skateboarding gold at just 13

Dieter Brummer: Home and Away actor dies aged 45

Tencent shares slide after Beijing crackdown on music rights

Austrian wins shock Olympic cycling gold

Tokyo Olympics: Naomi Osaka 'refreshed' for 'nerve-wracking' Games debut in Japan

Tokyo Olympics: Japan's Yuto Horigome makes history with sport's first ever gold

What is 3x3 basketball?

Tokyo 2020: S Korea TV sorry for using pizza to depict Italy

Oliver Warders! News update 213

Oliver Warders! News update 213

New Zealand to allow IS-linked mother to be repatriated

Tunisia PM sacked after violent Covid protests

Triathlon gold goes to Norway at Tokyo 2020

Deadly street protests over Iran water shortages

Unesco adds Madrid's Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park to heritage list

Nigerian outrage at brazen bandit attacks

Tokyo Olympics: One athlete braved sharks and crocodiles

Covid-19: Recent claims about cremations and vaccines fact-checked

Afrobeats in Japan: British-Nigerian hip hop dancer teaching children how to dance

Covid: Fauci says US heading in wrong direction as cases rise

Climate change: Israel to cut 85% of emissions by mid-century

Rockslide destroys bridge in northern India

Large meteor wows Norway after blazing through night sky

Jackie Mason, rabbi turned comedian, dies aged 93

India landslide: Nine tourists killed as boulders fall from hilltop

Tokyo Olympics: Shock golds for Kiesenhofer & Hafnaoui as Osaka & Biles start campaigns

Australia Covid: Anti-lockdown protesters condemned

Nigeria school kidnappers abduct man delivering ransom

Wildfires spread from California to Nevada

Tunisian teenager wins shock swimming gold

R. Kelly accused of abusing teenage boy he met in McDonald's

Nigeria's hipster herders - the funky Fulanis

Tokyo Olympics: The youngest athletes, past and present

Covid: Delta variant spreads globally as cases soar

Excitement over wooden shipwreck found in Antigua's seabed

The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot

ICYMI: World's deepest pool and a royal ritual resumes

LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus

Serial killer on death row Rodney Alcala dies of natural causes

Clashes in Paris over Covid measures

Budapest Pride stands up for LGBT rights in Hungary

Golds, shock exits and heat on day one

Afghanistan curfew imposed as Taliban militants advance

Typhoon In-Fa sweeps towards China after flooding chaos

India monsoon: Rescuers search for survivors after heavy rains

Australia Covid: Arrests at anti-lockdown protests

Surfside tower collapse: Search for bodies concludes

Oliver Warders! News update 212

Oliver Warders! News update 212

China imposes sanctions on US officials

Tips from the Netherlands on how to build a nation of cyclists

DRC volcano: Reuniting children with families after the eruption

Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says

Angelina Jolie wins appeal to remove judge from Brad Pitt divorce case

Las Vegas murder case cracked with record-small amount of DNA

Covid: Moderna jab approved for teenagers in EU

Jovenel Moïse: Unrest mars funeral of assassinated Haitian leader

German TV apologises for smearing mud on clothes at flood site

Tokyo Olympics: 2020 Games begin as Naomi Osaka lights Olympic flame in poignant ceremony

MLB's Cleveland Indians drop controversial name

India monsoon: 36 dead after landslides in Maharashtra

US fires: Inside a US fire truck driving through a wildfire

China floods: Henan mother dies after saving baby from mudslide

Tibet: China's President Xi Jinping makes visit to troubled region

Firm fined £2.6m for claiming clothes prevent Covid

Man rescued in Alaska after week-long bear attack ordeal

India Zomato: Shares of food delivery app soar 80% on market debut

Emily Ratajkowski sponsors Bantry Basketball Club in County Cork

Indonesia: Covid-positive man disguised as wife boards flight

Didi shares fall on reports China is planning penalties

Pegasus spyware: French President Macron changes phone after hack reports

Covid vaccine: Eight-week gap seen as sweet spot for Pfizer jab antibodies

Tokyo Olympics: A Games in a pandemic, new sports, British medal hopes and global stars to watch

Tokyo Olympics: Is the USA 'Dream Team' era coming to an end?

Tokyo Olympics: US gymnast Simone Biles gets her own goat emoji

Ethiopia Tigray crisis: New front opens in war as aid fears grow

EU chief rejects UK bid to renegotiate Brexit deal

US border agents seize 15 giant snails

AI advance could transform battle against disease

Websites hit by global outage

Eric Clapton refuses to play venues requiring vaccines for concertgoers

California sues Activision Blizzard over alleged harassment

The 12-year-old becoming Tokyo's youngest Olympian

Tokyo Olympics: Black bear at softball arena still not caught out

Covid: China rejects WHO plan for second phase of virus origin probe

Dust devil almost takes out football players at match in Bolivia

Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking

John Coates: Australian Olympic boss in awkward 'mansplaining' row

Australia and NZ pull out of Rugby League World Cup

China floods: Drone footage shows the scale of damage as clean up begins

Olympics opening ceremony director dismissed on eve of event

YouTube removes Bolsonaro videos for Covid misinformation

Oliver Warders! News update 211

Yuen Long attack: Hong Kong court gives seven jail time

Oliver Warders! News update 211

Nord Stream 2: US and Germany reach deal on controversial Russian gas pipeline

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to LA sexual assault charges

Pegasus: Princess Latifa and Princess Haya numbers 'among leaks'

Monkeypox: More than 200 contacts tracked in US for rare disease

Wildfires: Firefighters battle blaze from top of moving train

Europe floods: 'I have an axe beside my bed'

Former informant 'White Boy Rick' sues FBI for $100m

Spain arrest over celebrity Twitter accounts hack

From pretending to be a boy to going to the Games

China: Taobao, Weibo fined for illegal child content

Tokyo Olympics: Team GB women's football take the knee

Tokyo 2020: Where might hosts Japan win medals?

Tokyo Olympics: Day-by-day guide to the key events, big stars and British medal hopes

Gender reveal party couple face jail over deadly California wildfire

Taylor Swift: No more Grammys for singer's re-recorded Fearless album

Tokyo Olympics: Sweden stun USA in women's football opener

2032 Games: Brisbane confirmed as Olympic and Paralympic host

Gold toilet found in Russian police bribery probe

Mucormycosis: India records more than 4,300 'black fungus' deaths

Henan floods: Woman swept down street by extreme flood waters

Covid-19: India outrage over no oxygen shortage death data

ICMR sero survey says two-thirds of Indians exposed to Covid

JP Morgan: US banking giant gives boss 'special award'

Thomas Barrack: Top Trump aide accused of working as foreign agent

Netflix to include mobile games for subscribers

Jeff Bezos and crew launch into space on New Shepard

Nike trainer output at key factory hit by Covid outbreak

Pegasus: French President Macron identified as spyware target

Severe floods hit China's Henan province

China floods: Passengers stuck in waist-high water on train

Wally Funk: The 82-year-old on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin flight

Germany grapples with flood havoc

Climate change: US pushes China to make faster carbon cuts

Kim Hong-bin: South Korean climber missing after fall in Pakistan

Israel PM warns Ben & Jerry's owner Unilever of consequences over sales ban

Tokyo 2020: Missing Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko found in Japan

Biden rows back on Facebook 'killing people' comment

Eid al-Adha prayers continue as rockets fired in Afghanistan

Tokyo Olympics: Poland send six swimmers home after selecting too many by mistake

Channel crossings migrants: 'We need a safe place'

Norway fined for wearing shorts not bikini bottoms

Microsoft: Chinese authorities slam 'groundless' hacking claims

Killing of boy, 13, at school shocks Singapore

Oliver Warders! News update 210

Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene over 'misleadling' Covid posts

Oliver Warders! News update 210

A weekend in America: Shootings in Washington spotlight growing problem

Pegasus: Who are the alleged victims of spyware targeting?

First space tourist Dennis Tito: 'I was euphoric'

Covid: False and misleading health claims spread in Indonesia

The little tech firm gunning for an airspeed record

Ben & Jerry's to stop sales in Palestinian territories

Police chief 'sick and tired' after child killed in shooting

Canada to open border to fully vaccinated Americans in August

Iraq attack: Bombing at Baghdad market kills Eid shoppers

January 6: First Capitol rioter sentenced to prison time

Nigeria fighter plane shot down by bandits - military

Oregon Bootleg Fire: Evacuations as largest US fire burns 300,000 acres

Mumbai rains: At least 30 killed in downpour

Global shares slide amid Covid economic recovery fears

Germany floods: Government rejects criticism over flood warnings

Tokyo Olympics: Composer Keigo Oyamada resigns over bullying at school

London man in court over plot to kill Pakistani activist in Netherlands

China accused of cyber-attack on Microsoft Exchange servers

NYPD officer uses crisp packet to save stabbing victim

India farmers' protest: Living on a highway in protest

Kris Wu: Brands drop China star over teen sex allegations

Why I've hosted more than 30 refugees in my house

Carlos Ghosn: Father and son sentenced for helping ex-Nissan boss escape

Tokyo Olympics: 'Plague of oysters' threaten key venue

Kurt Westergaard, Danish cartoonist behind Muhammad cartoon, dies at 86

'Plague of oysters' threaten key Olympic venue

Pegasus: Spyware sold to governments 'targets activists'

Olympics: Defying threats, Iranian athletes speak out to back ban

Covid: Is China's vaccine success waning in Asia?

Nigeria's security crises - five different threats

Using plastic waste to help solve sand shortages

Lex Gillette: Record-breaking blind long jumper

Oil producing nations agree deal to control prices

Esraa Abdel Fattah: Egyptian activist released from prison

Brazil's Bolsonaro leaves hospital after treatment for blocked intestine

South Africa looting: Clean-up to mark Nelson Mandela Day

North Korea warns young people against using slang from the South

ICYMI: Dead flamingos and a helicopter crash landing

Covid-19: Ireland's top medical officers targeted by abusive calls

Europe floods: Merkel shocked by 'surreal' devastation

Britney Spears says she will not perform while father controls career

Kenya fuel tanker explosion kills 13 in Siaya County

Europe floods: Residents return home to see damage inflicted

Tokyo Olympics: First athletes have Covid at athletes village

Oliver Warders! News update 209

Oliver Warders! News update 209

Haiti: Wife of assassinated president returns from US after surviving attack

Europe floods: Victims face massive clean-up as waters recede

Moment New York mum saves five-year-old from kidnap

Daughter of Afghan envoy kidnapped and injured in Pakistan

The Broadway dancer whose lockdown business bloomed

Latin American Foto Festival: Strength and resistance

Abir Moussi: The Tunisian MP who was slapped but not beaten

Your pictures on the theme of 'under the stars'

Covid-19 tests while you wait in Israeli airport

Joshi is swapping life in captivity for a new start in the jungle

First Covid case reported in Tokyo Olympic village

Cannes Film Festival: Titane wins top Palme d'Or prize

Egypt's Al Ahly win 10th African Champions crown

Canada's vaccination rate overtakes US

'Havana syndrome'-like mystery illness affects Vienna US diplomats

In pictures: Masks and social distancing at downsized Hajj

Iran protests: One killed in water crisis demonstration

'Hollywood Ripper' Michael Gargiulo sentenced to death for murders

Bianca Devins: Family sue NY officials over video footage of murdered teen

US Navy: First woman passes elite training scheme

Floridians rally in support of Cuban protesters

Germany floods: Where are the worst-hit areas?

Lil Durk: Grammy-nominated US rapper in shootout with intruders

Germany floods: 'My city looks like a battlefield'

Germany floods: Missed warnings and climate change

Drone footage shows mudslides

Science failed to predict extreme weather

South Africa Zuma riots: Armed police protect food deliveries

Severe flooding in western Europe

Pulitzer-winning journalist killed in Afghanistan

Clean-up operations in flood-hit western Europe

In pictures: Floods kill dozens

More flooding forecast for Europe

Germany floods: Helicopter rescues residents from rooftops

Europe floods: Neighbourhoods clear up after record rainfall

WhatsApp blocks two million Indian accounts

Australia Covid: Melbourne's snap lockdown spark protest

Oliver Warders! News update 208

Oliver Warders! News update 208

Germany floods: Merkel pledges support for victims

Canada: More unmarked graves likely at former residential school site

Biden and Merkel 'united against Russia aggression'

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: Fleeing for fear of new ethnic conflict

Tokyo 2020: The gymnasts 'building bridges between cultures'

Cbeebies bedtime stories and why Hollywood stars are lining up

The South African community standing up to looters

Covid: WHO urges China to co-operate better in virus origin probe

Jovenel Moïse: Colombia ex-soldiers 'in on plot to kill Haiti president'

Blue Origin: Teenager to fly into space with Jeff Bezos

China tunnel flood: Desperate search to find trapped workers

Lebanon's PM-designate quits over deadlock on cabinet line-up

Dutch crime reporter de Vries dies from shooting

In pictures: Deadly floods hit Germany and Belgium

Afghanistan: Taliban offers ceasefire for return of prisoners

Germany floods: Collapsed buildings and submerged cars

Uyghurs: US Senate passes bill to ban Xinjiang imports

South Africa looting: Government to deploy 25,000 troops after unrest

Germany floods: Four dead and dozens stranded after heavy rain

Melbourne: Australian city to enter snap lockdown with 18 cases

China's post-pandemic economic rebound loses steam

Australia attacks sweeping EU climate plan to tax imports

Singapore sees cases spike in large karaoke lounge cluster

Mastercard: India stops payment service provider from issuing cards

Covid: Spain's top court rules lockdown unconstitutional

US drug overdose deaths hit record number amid Covid pandemic

Swedish rapper Yasin jailed over plot to kidnap rival artist

Olivia Rodrigo: Pop princess pushes president's plan for more jabs

Why I threw my baby to strangers

Covid-19 rules: What happens when countries ease restrictions?

Brazil's Bolsonaro in hospital amid concern over chronic hiccups

Facebook 'expert' feature raises trust concerns

Summer of Soul: New film revives lost Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969

Nicolas Cage's Tiger King TV drama scrapped by Amazon

EU unveils sweeping climate change plan

South Africa Zuma riots: Queues form in Durban due to shortages

Chinese engineers killed in Pakistan bus blast

Sacha Baron Cohen: US politician Roy Moore loses bid to sue over TV stunt

Afghanistan: Taliban flag raised above border crossing with Pakistan

Cuba protests: Frustration at government runs deep

Texas Democrats defy arrest threats after fleeing to block voting law

Gun resembling Lego toy sparks backlash in US

Australia Covid: Sydney extends lockdown to fight Delta outbreak

Hotel collapse in China's Suzhou kills 17, injures five

US warns businesses over China's Xinjiang province

Oliver Warders! News update 208

Oliver Warders! News update 208