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American crime statistics show the largest year-to-year decline in violent crime since FBI records began in 1936. Murder and ...

Luigi Mangione admitted to fatally shooting Brian Thompson, the boss of UnitedHealthcare, America’s biggest health insurer, ...

Last month, at a Methodist church in the middle of Iowa, Rob Sand handed a microphone to his internet troll. “Gary, good to ...

This year’s programme celebrates India’s youth. Invitees include precocious overachievers, such as medalists from the ...

Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on how an unusually hot, dry summer is testing the continent’s infrastructure ...

This weekend Sea Legend, a Chinese shipping company, begins the first regular service along the Northern Sea Route, which ...

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First spotted in 2024 by the James Webb Space Telescope, these mysterious red pinpoints of bright light formed when the ...

America is reportedly sending an aircraft-carrier to the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln, after reports ...

The balance of power in oil markets may shift again. For a while, once the Gulf crisis abates, there could be a “superglut” ...

This confession opens “Tony”, a rollicking biopic of the late American chef’s formative years released in British cinemas on ...