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British aristocrat Constance Marten and her partner have been found guilty of hiding the birth of their baby who was found dead in a Lidl shopping bag after a high-profile search, it can now be reported. Marten (37) and Mark…

Clean-up crews and business owners are inspecting the damage after sudden storms lashed south-western Switzerland the previous night, sending torrents of water through roads and temporarily halting air traffic at Geneva’s airport. In the lakeside town of Morges, a creek…

Revellers among the first to arrive at Glastonbury Festival have praised it as a “community” and a “religious” experience. Organiser Emily Eavis, stood without her father and festival founder Sir Michael Eavis, led those queuing in a countdown before she…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signalled that he is getting tough on officials he suspects are shirking their duties in the war with Russia. Mr Zelensky and Commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region who…

Four men who were arrested at the UK prime minister’s constituency home have been released on bail, police have said. The group were detained at Rishi Sunak’s house in the village of Kirby Sigston, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire, at around…

Better known for its sandy beaches and for playing host to one of the most infamous chapters in Irish football history, the tropical Pacific island of Saipan will soon host the final act of Julian Assange’s 14-year legal odyssey. Assange…

A court in southern Nepal has convicted a controversial spiritual leader known as Buddha Boy on charges of sexually assaulting a minor. Ram Bahadur Bamjan, who is believed by some to be the reincarnation of the founder of Buddhism, was…

Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it was banning access inside Russia to the broadcasts of RTÉ along with dozens of other European media outlets in what it said was retaliation for a similar EU ban on several Russian media…

The first UN-backed contingent of foreign police has arrived in Haiti, nearly two years after the troubled Caribbean country urgently requested help to quell a surge in gang violence. Around 200 police officers from Kenya landed in the capital of…

Britain’s Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak has pulled support from candidates Craig Williams and Laura Saunders over the UK General Election betting row. The British prime minister acted after coming under mounting pressure within the party to take a tougher…