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The 180-foot (55-metre) Cerne Abbas Giant, carved into the side of a chalk hill in Dorset

British naked chalk giant gets spruced up

Former US First Lady Jill Biden has said she feared husband Joe was having a stroke during his 2024 debate

As former FLOTUS tells all

Trump mocks Jill Biden over debate 'stroke' claim

US President Donald Trump said he was meeting in the White House Situation Room

Getting closer?

Trump says now making 'final determination' on Iran deal

PSG captain Marquinhos said after thrashing Inter Milan 5-0 in last year's Champions League final, the French side had gained a taste for success which had to be sated

PSG more 'hungry' for Champions League after first taste of glory

Romanians in the eastern city of Galati voiced fear after a drone hit a residential building

Russian incursion

'I'm afraid for my life': Romanians in shock after drone crash

Journalists at the award ceremony will include AFP photographer Mohammed Abed, who took this picture of a Palestinian father holding his daughter's body after she was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza on April 4, 2024

Documenting atrocities

Photo and video journalists in Gaza to receive 'Golden Pen' award

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth will attend a key Asia summit that China has decided to effectively sit out

Geopolitical tension

China leaders skip Asia defence summit headlined by US

A security source said China had used fake LinkedIn profiles to lure in EU and NATO employees

EU wants 'robust' defence against China trade imbalance

Gael Drean has scored 19 tries in 23 matches this season for Toulon and France

Out for several months

France rugby star Drean to have heart surgery

'Dangerous escalation'

Luxembourg ministers condemn Russian drone strike in Romania

Security personnel had to come on to the pitch to remove tennis balls thrown by protestors during Ireland's friendly against Qatar, at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin

Calls for boycott

Anti-Israel tennis ball protest disrupts Ireland-Qatar football tie

Andreas Scheuer facing a parliamentary committee looking into the failed introduction of the car toll in October 2020

German ex-minister faces perjury charges over failed car toll plan

US rapper and producer Kanye West is due to perform in Marseille on June 11

Controversy over antisemitic remarks

Kanye West cleared to play in Netherlands

World Cup winner Daniel Bertoni says Argentina's chances of adding a fourth World Cup star could be harmed if coach Lionel Scaloni relies too much on the players who brought them their 2022 triumph

A cautionary message

Loyalty could be fatal to Argentina's World Cup title defence, says Bertoni

A steep drop in home renovation and construction spending weighed on the French economy in the first quarter

Downward revision

French GDP slips 0.1% in first quarter, raising spectre of recession

Azmoun has been a standout player for Iran over the last years

Shadowed by political decision

Azmoun: Iran's absent talisman unafraid of controversy

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape told AFP the South Pacific island nation won't allow foreign military bases, even as Australia increases its presence

Amid geopolitical tensions

PNG leader says no foreign bases as Australia's defence presence grows

Seven-year-old twins' quick reaction likely saved lives in Nonnweiler fire

A Bangladeshi migrant at an Indian Border Security Force (BSF) camp at Hakimpur on the outskirts of Kolkata on May 28, 2026

Migrants try to flee to Bangladesh fearing India crackdown

The explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is the latest setback for the space exploration company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos

'Spaceflight is unforgiving'

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket explodes on launch pad

Conditions are conducive for Ebola's spread in the eastern DRC's camps for people displaced by the region's conflicts

Risks of spread

'If Ebola comes, we'll be wiped out': DR Congo conflict-displaced

Betting revenue for this year's World Cup is likely to be over 50 billion dollars, dwarfing the amount bet when Argentina won in 2022

Over $50 billion

'Biggest circus in town' the World Cup set for betting frenzy

German climber Billi Bierling maintains the 60-year-old Himalayan Database, started by late American journalist Elizabeth Hawley

Database of each climb

Legacy of Himalaya's 'Sherlock Holmes' lives on in digital

Lionel Messi in action for Argentina in a friendly against Zambia in Buenos Aires in March

Barcelona legend

Can Messi deliver again for Argentina at his final World Cup?

Alan Rothenberg, the chief executive of the successful 1994 World Cup, believes football is on track to become the dominant sport in the United States

A changing sporting landscape

Football eyes NFL throne says 1994 World Cup architect

A Russian influence operation on Bluesky illustrates how pro-Kremlin propagandists are seeking novel ways to undermine support for war-torn Ukraine.

Weaponising digital identities

Bluesky accounts hijacked in pro-Russia propaganda campaign

Each human model and their android companion took turns to strut their stuff in unison

Android fashion

'Robots need clothes': humanoids hit catwalk in Seoul

Ukrainian artist Olena Kharakhulakh decided to go into art full-time after a Russian attack near her home

'Way of telling people to survive'

War trauma pushes more Ukrainians to become artists

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