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Jury hears social-media image helped identify teen in Scarlett Faulkner case

Ketchup packets link suspect to break-in at Eddie Rocket’s restaurant

American Airlines passenger falls ill and vomits on three travellers

Spain's General Strike Links Housing Crisis to Lost Purchasing Power

Euro-Area Inflation Reaches 4% as Energy Prices Jump

China's Factory Inflation Accelerates While Consumer Demand Stays Weak

US Adds 165,000 Jobs as Unemployment Falls to 4.1%

Bank of England Raises Interest Rate to 4% as Energy Risks Intensify

Energy Costs Push OECD Inflation Up to 4.5%

OPEC Says Oil Output Is Near Prewar Levels Despite Shipping Disruptions

China's Trade Surplus Passes $1 Trillion as Technology Exports Surge

China's Singles' Day Exposes Persistent Consumer Caution

US Inflation Broadens as Fed Officials Consider Faster Rate Hikes

Irish police prepare for further hoax bomb threats after hundreds of schools targeted

Ukraine sends ground robots

Lyman's surrender crisis

Pakistan’s Taliban dilemma

Venezuela and the Qatar Fund

Seoul to compensate Japan wartime forced labour victims

South Korea announced plans Monday to compensate victims of Japan's forced wartime labour, aiming to end a "vicious cycle" in the Asian powers' relations and boost ties to counter the nuclear-armed North.

Afghan universities reopen but women still barred

Male students trickled back to their classes Monday after Afghan universities reopened following a winter break but women remain barred by Taliban authorities.

'Forget the war': Ukraine ski slope offers respite from conflict

Far from the Ukraine war's frontlines, only the whirring of generator-powered ski lifts disturbs the calm at Bukovel in the country's west, a winter resort nestled in the pine-forested Carpathian Mountains.

One dead, six missing as boat capsizes off disputed Japan islands

One person is dead and six missing, Japan's coastguard said Monday, after a boat capsized and was spotted in waters off the Tokyo-controlled Senkaku islets, which are also claimed by China.

'Just lower the water!' Flood fatigue in the village that halted Russia

More than a year after the Ukrainian military flooded his village to halt Russia's lightning march on Kyiv, Ivan Kukuruza's basement is still submerged and his patience is running out.

Last original Lynyrd Skynyrd member Gary Rossington dies age 71

Guitarist Gary Rossington, the last remaining original member of US rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, died on Sunday, the band said. He was 71.

Barred from the streets, Cubans mark Women's Day online

Taking to the streets to make your voice heard on International Women's Day is a right taken for granted in most countries. Not in Cuba.

'Change' for Iran women: Pastry chef rises to the occasion

She could have left Iran, as many of her contemporaries did, but Paris-trained pastry chef Shahrzad Shokouhivand decided to stay and work to make women's lives better inside the country.

'Herstory' trend brings women's lives out of shadows in Britain

From the opera star who went on stage smothered in diamonds to a young widow left penniless with a small child in 19th-century Britain, a new wave of "herstories" are spotlighting female voices ignored or even erased by history.

Bellingham the key for high-flying Dortmund at Chelsea

If Borussia Dortmund's remarkable 2023 run is to continue at Chelsea on Tuesday, midfield master Jude Bellingham, 19, will need to be front and centre.

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Seoul announces plan to compensate victims of Japan wartime forced labour