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Michael Howlett, a Cleaning Ambassador with the Hollywood Partnership, cleans off Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. AFP file photo.

'Makes no sense': Hollywood shocked by Trump's film tariffs

Colombian president Gustavo Petro's strategy of engaging in dialogue with his country's armed factions "have not borne fruit". File photo: AFP

Colombia arrests 217 suspected members of top drug cartel

US President Donald Trump is offering to pay undocumented migrants $1,000 if they choose to self-deport. Photo: AFP

Trump administration offers $1,000 to migrants who self-deport 

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Libyan Parliament slashes budget as oil revenues down

Libya’s elected Parliament has slashed this year’s budget for the faction-ridden country by a fifth to $40 billion because a wave of worker protests in the first six months will mean lower oil revenues. The House of Representatives, based in the...

October 23, 2014| Reuters

Alvin Stardust dies aged 72

Singer and actor Alvin Stardust, who grew up in Mansfield, died aged 72 after a short illness, his manager said yesterday. He had recently been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer and died at home with his wife and family around him. The singer –...

October 23, 2014| PA Media

Anger at move to free man who killed 3 officers

Harry Roberts who gunned down three unarmed police officers in Shepherds Bush, west London, in 1966. Photo: PA Police killer Harry Roberts is to be released from prison – despite being warned by a judge that he faced dying in jail. Roberts, now 78, was...

October 23, 2014| PA Media

US steps up Ebola checks

Connecticut placed six West Africans who recently arrived in the United States under quarantine for possible Ebola exposure, a move that comes as the US starts new restrictions on those coming from the countries hardest hit by the deadly virus. The...

October 23, 2014| Reuters

Blogs, videos and verse – an Iraqi poet’s quest to heal her homeland

Amal al-Jubouri, one of the foremost Arabic poets, uses online TV and blog to help show unreported Iraq and raise the voice of her countrymen Amal al-Jubouri with Angelina Jolie at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in June. Photo:...

October 23, 2014| Reuters
A fully assembled Apple-1 computer, with a home-made wooden computer case.

€715,000 for 1970s Apple

One of few remaining examples of first Apple computer exceeds expectations at NY sale

October 23, 2014| Reuters

Beast with behemoth arms

Dinosaur that looked like a hump-backed ostrich roamed earth 70m years ago

October 23, 2014| Reuters
The head of a sphinx discovered in Amphipolis, northern Greece. Photo: Hellenic Culture Ministry/Reuters

‘Sculpture of exceptional art’ found

The head of a sphinx discovered in Amphipolis, northern Greece. Photo: Hellenic Culture Ministry/Reuters Archaeologists unearthed the missing head of one of the two sphinxes found guarding the entrance of an ancient tomb in Greece’s northeast, as the...

October 23, 2014| Reuters

Obama for tea

Participants drinking tea and eating pies made to look like US President Barack Obama, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the art performance titled, Sweet Sanctions – Let’s Eat Each Other Only for Fun in...

October 23, 2014| Times of Malta

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Female Banksy’s artwork stolen

October 23, 2014| PA Media
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Man's ashes launched into space

A mother who is using social media to have her son's ashes scattered all over the world has sent him on his greatest journey yet - to space. Using her Facebook page, which has more than 17,000 likes, Hallie Twomey has mailed hundreds of packets of her...

October 23, 2014| PA Media

One dead in Germany gas explosion

One person has been killed and 11 injured in an explosion after a gas pipe was damaged during construction work in a west German city, authorities said. Police in Ludwigshafen said the explosion outside a house in the city happened midday today. Gas...

October 23, 2014| PA Media

Updated: Ottawa suspect's mother 'sorry'

(Adds full text of mother's e-mail) The mother of the man identified as Ottawa gunman has said she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son. Susan Bibeau said she did not know what to say to those hurt in the attack. "Can you ever explain...

October 23, 2014| PA Media

Migrants dodge French police, try to enter Britain

French police at the port city of Calais struggle to stop irregular migrants from going to Britain. The migrants sneak into trucks bound for the ferries. Yiming Woo reports.

October 23, 2014| Reuters

British officers furious at police killer release

British police have denounced the decision to free a notorious killer who shot dead two officers in 1966, calling it a "slap in the face" for the victims' relatives. Harry Roberts, now 78, and two associates were planning a robbery in a van in west...

October 23, 2014| Times of Malta

Funeral for baby killed in Jerusalem car attack

Hundreds attended the funeral of a baby killed after a Palestinian man slammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem. "The parents are a young couple. They are Americans and they came to live here. He come to learn here in the Yeshiva (Jewish Seminary)...

October 23, 2014| Times of Malta

Canada's Harper says no safe haven for those behind attacks

Canada will not be intimidated by a pair of attacks that killed two soldiers on its own soil this week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an address to the nation last night, adding that security agencies will do everything needed to counter...

October 23, 2014| Times of Malta
A still image captured from video footage by the Globe and Mail newspaper shows police officers responding to shooting attacks inside the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, yesterday. Photo: Reuters/The Globe and Mail

Soldier dies after gunman opens fire in Canada

At least one gunman entered Canada’s Parliament buildings yesterday and many shots were fired just outside the room where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was addressing a meeting of legislators. Harper was safely removed from the building but Parliament...

October 22, 2014| Reuters
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Protesters march in Hong Kong as talks are fruitless

About 200 Hong Kong protesters marched to the home of the city’s Beijing-backed leader yesterday to push their case for greater democracy a day after talks between student leaders and senior officials failed to break the deadlock. Others continued to...

October 22, 2014| Reuters
A man walks by a sign that reads “Ebola is real” in Monrovia, Liberia, yesterday. Photo: Reuters

Cuban doctors, nurses land in Liberia to combat Ebola

A team of Cuban doctors and nurses arrived in Liberia yesterday to help to fight the worst outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus on record alongside a US military mission deploying in the West Africa country. A jet from the national airline Cubana...

October 22, 2014| Reuters

US Liberty Medal honour for Malala

Nobel laureate renews call for education for all

October 22, 2014| Reuters
An Alfred Wertheimer photo of Elvis Presley signing autographs early in his career.

Elvis photographer dies

Alfred Wertheimer, the photographer whose photographs of Elvis Presley documented the start of a legendary career, has died. Wertheimer’s editor and gallery curator, Chris Murray, said Wertheimer, who was 85, died of natural causes at his New York...

October 22, 2014| PA Media
Ben Bradlee (top left) with Bob Woodward, a former Washington Post reporter having a discussion about the Watergate Hotel burglary and stories for the Post at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California, in April 2011. Photo: Alex Gallardo/Reuters

The man who directed the Watergate coverage

Ben Bradlee, top editor of Washington Post, dies at 93

October 22, 2014| Reuters

Calling all material girls!

Madonna clothes and memorabilia take centre stage in celebrity sale

October 22, 2014| Reuters

Humans could not drink cow milk for 5,000 years

Ancient DNA from 13 individuals shows early Europeans did not tolerate lactose

October 22, 2014| PA Media

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£1,792 loom band phone bill

October 22, 2014| PA Media

Update 3: Soldier dies after Ottawa shootings

A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country's capital was shot dead today, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said. One gunman was killed, and police said they were hunting for as many as two others. The...

October 22, 2014| PA Media
Times of Malta

Syria says shoots down two of three Islamic State jets

Syria's air force has destroyed two fighter jets operated by Islamic State militants in the north of the country, Information Minister Omran Zoabi said in remarks published on Syria's state news agency SANA. A Syrian monitoring group said on Friday...

October 22, 2014| Times of Malta

European Parliament approves new Commission

The European Parliament approved the new European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker in a vote today, clearing the way for the EU executive to take office on November 1. The vote was 423 votes in favour, 209 against and 67 abstentions. Juncker, a...

October 22, 2014| Times of Malta
Times of Malta

Somalia's al Shabaab says stones man to death for rape

Somalia's al Shabaab militants said they had stoned an 18-year-old man to death for raping a woman at gunpoint in one of their strongholds in the southern Lower Shabelle region. The group, which pledges loyalty to al Qaeda, has been losing territory in...

October 22, 2014| Times of Malta