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Schoolgirl who won Metro space competition wins award for space engineering 17 years later

Girl inspired by winning Metro space competition becomes award-winning engineer

Channel: UK UK January 14, 2026 By Luke Alsford
This photo released by The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), shows displaced families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (NRC via AP)

Sudan's brutal civil war - what's happening in El Fasher?

Channel: World World November 2, 2025 By Frankie Lister-Fell
Cropped shot of nurse wearing surgical gown while working in operating room in hospital.

I operated on a toddler without anaesthesia – it still haunts me

Channel: World World October 8, 2025 By Nada Al-Hadithy

Five times Donald Trump has been humiliated in public by suspected pranksters

Channel: US US September 26, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
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Trump says there were three acts of sabotage on him at UN in new rambling post

Channel: US US September 25, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva

The New York 'sim-farm' plot reveals a troubling trend

Channel: US US September 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
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Fox News broadcaster suggests UN should be 'bombed' over Trump escalator malfunction

Channel: US US September 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump ridicules Vladimir Putin's 'paper tiger'

Channel: US US September 24, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
Play Video Emmanuel Macron calls Donald Trump for help in New York after he's told to make way for the president

Macron rings Trump for help after New York police block his car in the street

Channel: World World September 24, 2025 By Luke Alsford
Play Video U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 23, 2025. REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR

Donald Trump's wildest claims in his rambling UN General Assembly speech

Channel: US US September 24, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/Shutterstock (15500127a) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during the High-level Meeting on the 30th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women at UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 22, 2025. The High-level Meeting on the 30th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women is held at UN headquarters in New York on Monday. Un Meeting Fourth World Conference on Women 30th Anniversary - 22 Sep 2025

Huge plot to bring down New York's phone network points towards 'Russia, China or Iran'

Channel: US US September 23, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on July 22, 2025. Trump voiced confidence at reaching a trade deal with the Philippines as he welcomed his counterpart Ferdinand Marcos to the White House. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump pulls US out of UNESCO again over support for 'woke' causes

Channel: US US July 22, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
president of the Mothers of Srebrenica, Munira Subasic

'I am lucky because I found two of my son's bones in the Srebrenica massacre'

Channel: World World July 11, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on June 15, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said 16 people were killed in Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territory on June 15, most of them while waiting for aid.

Gaza 'being forgotten' as Israel and Iran descend into all-out war

Channel: World World June 15, 2025 By Ryan Prosser
Play Video epa12085686 US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee addresses the media at the US embassy in Jerusalem, 09 May 2025, regarding the humanitarian aid situation in the Gaza Strip. EPA/ABIR SULTAN

US suggests Palestinian state should be in the French Riviera

Channel: US US June 3, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
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Trump 'wants to defund Nato and UN in £20,000,000,000 cut'

Channel: US US April 16, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
Play Video This frame grab from a video released by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, taken with a phone by one of the 15 Palestinians medics killed, shows Red Crescent emergency vehicles, their lights and sirens flashing and their logos clearly visible, seconds before they came under a barrage of gunfire from Israeli army soldiers in Tel al-Sultan, a district of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, early Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Palestinian Red Crescent Society via AP)

Israel admits mistakes over killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza

Channel: World World April 6, 2025 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
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UN judge 'took advantage of her status' to force young woman to work as a slave

Channel: UK UK March 13, 2025 By Katie Boyden

Donald Trump told 'do whatever the hell you want' by Iran over nuke talks

Channel: World World March 12, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
President Donald Trump, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018

How Russia successfully 'flipped' Donald Trump to form the 'Trumputin Pact'

Channel: World World February 25, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva