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Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Bettmann via Getty Images Foreman exchanging punches with Muhammad Ali in their famous Rumble in the Jungle fight George Foreman, the boxing heavyweight legend, has died aged 76, his family said. Known as Big George […]

Holding new elections in Syria could take up to four years, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said in a broadcast interview. This is the first time he has given a timeline for possible elections in Syria since his group Hayat

A 40-year-old man has died after being attacked by a shark on the edge of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, local police said. Luke Walford, a youth pastor, had been spearfishing with his family when he was bitten on Saturday afternoon.

Arsenic have been found in the blood of one of three women who died after eating a Christmas cake in a suspected poisoning in Brazil, a police chief has told local media. The highly toxic substance was also identified in

AFP via Getty Images Singh’s funeral procession through the streets of Delhi India has mourned one of its longest-serving prime ministers, Manmohan Singh, with a state funeral in Delhi. Singh led the country from 2004 to 2014 and was considered

Reuters Many Kyiv residents sheltered in metro stations Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia made a “conscious choice” by launching a major attack on his country’s energy infrastructure on Christmas Day. Ukraine’s air force said it had detected 184 missiles

Dozens of people have died after a passenger plane crashed with 67 people on board in Kazakhstan, local officials say. The country’s emergency ministry said there were 25 survivors. The plane, operated by Azerbaijan Airlines, caught fire as it went

A former Syrian government official has been charged with torture in the United States, authorities said on Thursday. Samir Ousman Alsheikh, who oversaw the Damascus Central Prison from 2005 and 2008, was charged by a federal grand jury with several

Bolivia has extradited its former anti-drugs director to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges. Maximiliano Dávila, also known as “Macho”, is accused of facilitating cocaine smuggling to the US during his time as the head of Bolivia’s