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All of Broadway’s marquees will dim to honour the life of Gavin Creel following an outcry by theatre fans when only a partial dimming was proposed after the 48-year-old Tony Award-winner’s death last month. The Committee of Theatre Owners on…

Ratan Tata, a former chairman of India’s oldest conglomerate – as well Tata Steel and Jaguar Land Rover, has died at a Mumbai hospital at the age of 86. Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran confirmed Mr Tata’s death and described…

Former president Donald Trump and Georgia governor Brian Kemp cemented their newfound alliance on Friday as they praised citizens and first responders in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Mr Trump and Mr Kemp appeared in front of paper products, diapers…

Barristers representing alleged victims of Mohamed Al Fayed said the group now has more than 70 clients. Justice for Harrods Survivors said the number of women “feeling safe to come forward” was “increasing on a daily basis”. Mr Al Fayed,…

Nasa’s Webb Space Telescope has identified new clues about the surface of Pluto’s largest moon. It detected for the first time traces of carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the surface of Charon, which is about half of Pluto’s size.…

A senior doctor has told a public inquiry he is “ashamed” that he failed to protect babies from harm by serial killer nurse Lucy Letby. Consultant paediatrician Dr John Gibbs apologised to parents of Letby’s 14 victims shortly after he…

Iran is preparing to “imminently” launch a ballistic missile attack on Israel, according to a senior US administration official, who warned of “severe consequences” should it take place. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the US was…

Jimmy Carter has reached his 100th birthday, the first time an American president has lived a full century and the latest milestone in a life that took the son of a Depression-era farmer to the White House and across the…

An apparent Russian artillery strike hit a market in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding three others, authorities have said. The attack came on the same morning Ukrainians across the country…

Military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a US Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it. In the video released on Monday, the Russian plane comes from behind…