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Swiss govt announces bid for 36 F-35A fighter jets and...
The Swiss government has said it wants to buy 36 F-35A fighter jets from American manufacturer Lockheed Martin, a decision critics...
‘Nobody believes you’: IKEA couch honoring bisexual people...
IKEA has designed a series of couches inspired by the ever-growing number of LGBT flags. However, a loveseat inspired by the bisexual...
Twitter hit by 3 police cases in India over alleged child...
Police in India have launched three cases against the social media platform over the alleged distribution of child pornography, and...
Freak storm buries French town in deluge of hail, locals...
A town in France has been battered by up to 80cm (32in) of hail in a freak June storm that saw snowplows brought in and locals taking...
‘Scary’ Boston Dynamics dance video divides internet as...
American robotics company Boston Dynamics released a new robot dance video after it announced it had been acquired by Hyundai – and,...
Turkey’s Karpowership says it’s restoring electricity supply...
Energy firm Karpowership has said it will once again supply electricity from two of its ships to energy-threatened Lebanon, after...
Five dead after primary school under construction partially...
Rescuers in the Belgian city of Antwerp have found the bodies of five construction workers after an unfinished school building partially...
Vatican launches approval that might lead to EU ‘founder’...
Pope Francis has approved a decree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of French politician Robert Schuman, known as an ‘architect’ of...
Pastafarians cry foul after Church of the Flying Spaghetti...
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster will have to remain an underground pasta-worshipping sect in Australia, after a tribunal...
Illegal 1,500-strong rave kicks off in France after night...
An unauthorized party in France’s Brittany region has had a truly chaotic start, as it was preceded by a night of clashes between...
1 killed & 11 injured after helicopter carrying ballot...
A helicopter transporting ballots cast during Iran’s presidential election has crashed, resulting in one fatality and nearly a dozen...
‘Expiry date too close’: Palestinian Authority scraps deal...
Doses of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine pledged by Israel were already too close to their expiration date when deliveries started on Friday,...
Hong Kong police charge 2 people with ‘collusion with a...
Police in Hong Kong have charged two senior bosses of the Apple Daily newspaper with “collusion with a foreign country” after officers...
2 reported dead, military truck burnt as twin blasts rock...
Two people have died after two explosions went off near the office of an army-backed political party in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon,...
Liberian rebel leader sentenced to 20 years in prison for...
Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah has been handed a 20 year prison sentence over charges of rape, killings and even cannibalism...
‘Never happened’: Aussie SAS corporal denies claims he...
Former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith has firmly rejected allegations he ever killed unarmed detainees in Afghanistan, as well as...
