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The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every country except the US and China, a study has found.

Western Europeans believe crime is rising in their country, according to a survey, despite long-term overall crime rates falling across the region since the mid-1990s.

Russia is expanding its nuclear-capable, long-range weapon systems to press Europe and fracture NATO.

A British four-year-old boy has reportedly died after falling into a swimming pool at a holiday home near the Costa del Sol.

A body has been discovered following a search operation launched for a British man, aged 23, who went missing in a popular holiday destination.

In St. Petersburg, officers of the FSB detained one of the city’s most influential businessmen and a close associate of Vladimir Putin, reputed crime boss Ilya Traber. The official reasons for the detention and the nature of the investigators’ allegations have not yet been disclosed.

A Russian warship fired warning shots after nearly colliding with a British sailing yacht just 150 meters away in the English Channel, according to the Kremlin.

A plane has crashed into a busy road in Texas – leaving at least one person dead as passengers were seen leaping from the blazing wreckage.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, causing intense shaking for over a minute.

The captain of a Russian shadow fleet vessel which was intercepted by British troops in the English Channel will appear in court charged with breaching sanctions.

A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff in Southern California’s Mojave Desert and burst into flames.

The ‘first line of defence’ against a deadly strain of Ebola has collapsed, Oxfam has said.

Ukrainian drones have breached newly strengthened air defences in Moscow and seriously damaged an oil refinery just 10 miles from the Kremlin in Russia.

Four people were killed at a World Heritage site in Kyiv after Vladimir Putin launched a wave of missiles in a massive aerial attack.

Around 11 skydivers and their pilot have ‘perished’ in a plane crash close to a rural airport.

Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the US-Iran peace deal as a “hugely important step forward in ending the war” as he stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain “fully and permanently open”.

Donald Trump turns 80 today – and, true to form, he has marked the occasion with a bang.

A woman was attacked by an 11ft white shark while swimming off a popular beach near Sydney.

Emergency services were called to Coogee Beach in the east of Sydney, Australia’s largest city, in the morning on reports that the 35-year-old woman had been bitten by a large shark about 30 meters (100 feet) from the shore.

Russia has begun construction on a new military base eerily close to Finland’s eastern border for the first time since the USSR collapsed.

Trying to settle on a Memorandum of Understanding to end the US-Iran war has first been complicated by the Hezbollah threat to Israel.