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An investigation into allegations that Sheffield Hallam University faced sustained pressure from China to shut down human rights research has been referred to counter-terrorism police.The BBC and the Guardian newspaper has been reporting that documents show that China had...

Diane Ladd, three-time Academy Award nominee and star of Wild at Heart, has died at 89. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, confirmed her death on Monday. "My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother, Diane Ladd, passed...

A Pakistani official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests" in response to President Trump's assertion in an interview with 60 Minutes that the country has conducted nuclear...

A train collided with a lorry transporting a full load of vehicles in Shertz, Texas. No injuries were reported and the train did not derail. According to police, the 18-wheeler truck stopped on the tracks. The crash is under...

The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government.Col Mamadi Doumbouya submitted his candidacy at the Supreme Court on...

More than 40 people are now known to have died after multiple landslides struck Kenya and Uganda's mountainous border region last week."I lost a grandmother, a maternal aunt, an uncle, two sisters, a family friend and a cousin. They...

OpenAI has signed a $38bn (£29bn) contract with Amazon to access its cloud computing infrastructure, as the start-up continues its run of major partnerships to secure computing power. In 2025, the ChatGPT maker has signed deals worth more than...

Ian YoungsCulture reporterJamaican music superstar Sean Paul has said the scale of the effort required to help people in the country is "overwhelming" after Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of the island last week.The Grammy-winning reggae singer said the category...

Getty ImagesSeparately, attempts to rescue two Italian climbers who went missing while attempting to scale the Panbari mountain in western Nepal are continuing.Stefano Farronato and Alessandro Caputo were part of a three-man group that became stranded along with three...

Sarah Rainsford,Southern Europe correspondent, Rome and Jake LaphamPart of a medieval tower in the heart of Rome's tourist district has collapsed, trapping one man and leaving another critically injured.A section of the Torre dei Conti, on the edge of...