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Italy placed all of its major cities under the highest heat alert Thursday as a blistering heat wave gripped Europe. The heat has set a national temperature record in Austria, fueled wildfires in France and disrupted...

An Afghan boxer suspected of killing a Scottish woman in Greece has arrived in court in Athens for a second time.Sharif Ahmadzai, who is 26 and from Afghanistan, faces charges of homicide with intent, robbery and weapons offences.He is...

Two Iranian female footballers who publicly defied their government have become Australian citizens.Atefeh Ramezanisadeh, 34, and Fatemeh Pasandideh, 22, were naturalised in Brisbane, Queensland, on Wednesday.Ramezanisadeh said it was a "truly special and unforgettable day", while her teammate said...

Air India has appointed a new chief executive as the airline grapples with mounting challenges, including heavy financial losses and the fallout from last year's crash that killed 260 people.Tewolde Gebremariam succeeds Campbell Wilson, who stepped down from the...

Ugandans are mourning the death of one of the country's best-known footballers after he was beaten to death by suspected robbers near his home in the capital, Kampala.Police said David Owori was fatally assaulted after resisting an attempt to...

An Indian court has found former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal guilty of raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old sexual assault case.The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said it was convicting Tejpal...

Umit, a female Amur tiger, has been released to Kazakhstan's Ile-Balkhash Nature Reserve as part of a programme to restore the animal's population, which was wiped out in central Asia a century ago. Umit is one of four Amur...

Rihanna could be set to break a decade-long album hiatus, according to her partner A$AP Rocky."She in the studio right now," the rapper said on the The Jason Lee podcast on Wednesday. Few details about the project were revealed,...

Facebook owner Meta says an error during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation's system.The announcement follows recent incidents across the AI...

SeaWorld San Antonio welcomed seven more beluga whales on Tuesday, the latest development in the international effort to relocate dozens of the mammals from a shuttered Canadian theme park.The group of females – Xena, Gemini,...