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X will be required to submit quarterly performance data over 12 months

'A step forward'

X pledges crackdown on illegal content in UK

Streeting has long coveted the leadership

Rivals getting ready

Possible contenders in UK Labour Party leadership race

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz cited a worsening 'social climate' in America

Germany's Merz says wouldn't advise young people to move to US

The bookmakers predict that a Finnish duo will win the 70th edition of Eurovision this year

Australia, Greece, Denmark, France

Finland's 'Flamethrower' and 4 other Eurovision favourites

Former Manchester United and England star David Beckham

Beckham becomes first British billionaire sportsman

A white Buddha statue shrouded in heavy pollution as smoke rises from a hillside wildfire in Pai, west of Chiang Mai

Right to breathable air

Thai lawmakers vote to revive clean air bill

Alphonso Davies (R) stretching for a ball against Bradley Barcola of Paris Saint-Germain in a Champions League semi-final second-leg

Following series of injuries

Bayern warn that Canada's Davies struggling to be fit for World Cup

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius leaving port in Spain's Canary Islands on May 11

Will remain in hospital until June 6

NZ passenger from hantavirus cruise quarantines in Taiwan

Queen Margrethe of Denmark, a chain smoker much of her life, abdicated in 2024, passing the throne to her son Frederik

She is in 'good condition'

Denmark's Queen Margrethe has angioplasty in hospital: palace

At Ndosho hospital, surgeon Amadou Soumah Sekou described the injuries from the Mushaki strike

Dangerous new turn

Civilians caught in war of drones in eastern DR Congo

Ukraine claims to be the world-leader in drone warfare

Hot topic in military tech

Sci-fi or battlefield reality? Ukraine's bet on drone swarms

Most of the Ukrainian soldiers handed over in the swap had been in Russian captivity since 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky said

'First phase of the 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner exchange'

Russia, Ukraine swap 205 prisoners of war each

Near Idar-Oberstein

German police stop car carrying 12 people

A model skeleton of Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis, Thailand’s largest dinosaur, at the Thainosaur Museum in Bangkok

Weighed about 27 tonnes

Southeast Asia's largest dinosaur identified in Thailand

Matthew Wale -- who leads the Solomon Islands Democratic Party -- won 26 votes in a secret ballot of 49 lawmakers

'Change is coming'

Solomon Islands elects opposition leader Matthew Wale as PM

US President Donald Trump with China's President Xi Jinping at the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing

Drama, tension, and breakthroughs

Rapprochement, debates, dissidents: US presidential visits to China

D'Sophie Garel an der Emission "les grosses têtes" um franséischen RTL.

Iconic French radio presenter and Luxembourg ESC representative Sophie Garel passes away

Chairperson of the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, Gautam Adani

Without admitting guilt

Indian magnate Adani agrees multi-million-dollar penalty in US court case

The drones are designed to disable the attacker by flying right into him or her or spraying them with pepper gel

Designed to disable the attacker

Drones to fight school shooters? One US company says yes

An Egyptian vulture flies over Gjirokaster, Albania

Faces many hazards on its annual migration

War imperils rare vultures' yearly odyssey to the Balkans

Villagers in the Ordu province protested plans to mine a verdant green area they use for farming

Resources dry-up

Mines 'draining Turkey's water sources', environmentalists warn

Zimbabwe is Africa's leading producer of tobacco

Dramatic turnaround

Zimbabwe tobacco hits new highs under smallholder contracts

NATO and EU members Estonia and Lativa are just to the west of Pskov

'It's an absolute fantasy'

Russian border city shrugs off Baltic fears of attack

The church has faced months of pressure from the Armenian government

Deeply Christian nation

Bitter church row divides Armenia ahead of elections

Auto-rickshaws queue to refuel at an LPG filling station in Bengaluru

By more than 3%

India hikes fuel prices as Middle East war strains supplies

A massive corruption scandal in Malaysia saw top officials loot billions from state fund 1MDB

1MDB corruption scandal

Malaysia PM says not opposed to fugitive financier's bid for pardon

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the presidential palace Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on May 6, 2026

Five-nation tour

Indian PM seeks trade, energy stability on UAE-Europe tour

The Aranui, a cargo liner from French Polynesia, brings supplies and tourists to Pitcairn

'Precautionary approach'

Passenger from hantavirus cruise quarantines on remote Pitcairn Island

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