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Twelve camels have been disqualified from the annual King Abdulaziz camel festival, which is held in Saudi Arabia each year. The animals were found to have received Botox-like injections in their

With a static guest list and use of hostesses, the all-male gala has barely evolved in 33 yearsThe Presidents Club is a long-running charity dinner now in its 33rd year. While the world has changed

Two clinicians who examined Assange renew calls for him to be given safe passage to hospitalJulian Assange’s long stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is having a “dangerous” impact on his

It is time for the sternest leaders to find some humanity and help Syria’s starving innocentsWorld leaders are meeting this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. When they’ve finished counting

The two-time Olympic gymnast, Aly Raisman, confronts the former USA gymnastics doctor, Larry Nassar, in court during his sentencing hearing. More than 100 girls and women – including Raisman and her

Special counsel also reportedly quizzed ex-FBI boss James ComeyPompeo said to have been ‘peripheral witness’ to Comey’s firingCIA director Mike Pompeo has been questioned by the special counsel’s

Court told Paul Playle, 43, drove wife to brink of suicide while she became fearful recluseA man has been jailed for driving his wife to the brink of suicide by impersonating her school boyfriend and

What binds Europeans together, in all our diversity? And what divides us? Our writers will seek the answersRecent years have been a rollercoaster for Europe. Not since the democratic revolutions of

Twenty years ago, Matt Drudge’s reports on the Lewinsky affair nearly brought down Bill Clinton. He was seen as the wellspring of a new, hyper-aggressive American conservatism – but has he been

Paris is on flooding alert as the river Seine continues to rise. Parisians have been warned to stay away from the river. Surrounding roads have been flooded and disruption to the city’s transport

In the absence of basic sanitation, life in rural Mozambique during the dry season involves a relentless cycle of arduous journeys to collect water unfit for drinking. The struggle for survival, which

In this new age, the notion that Europeans are special – that a wall separates them from Asia – is quickly being exposed as a pious fictionEurope is disappearing. Not because – as you often hear – we

Witness in trial of man accused of attack near mosque feared it was London Bridge-style raidThe trial of a man accused of carrying out a van attack on Muslims in Finsbury Park last year has heard how

German chancellor uses Davos speech to protest against sanctions on imports from ChinaGermany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has sent out a strong warning to Donald Trump about the dangers of

Twelve animals disqualified from country’s annual show after receiving injections to improve their poutTwelve camels have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia’s annual camel beauty contest after

Part of the Louvre museum is closed as the river is forecast to reach 6.1 metres by Saturday – three times its normal heightParisians have been warned to stay away from the river Seine as it continues

Antiques dealer Robert Peters allegedly attacked Sophia, who later died, at £1m London homeA prominent antiques dealer has admitted strangling his seven-year-old daughter with a dressing gown

Evicted tenants in the US often struggle to get an attorney, leaving them at a disadvantage against lawyered-up landlords Since being evicted from her apartment in New York’s Bronx neighborhood in

Peru’s Health Ministry found shocking contamination among the Nahua, but hasn’t published its full reportAn indigenous people living in one of the remotest parts of the Peruvian Amazon has been struck

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including calls for Nadhim Zahawi to step down for not reporting what happened at dinnerDavid Meller, organiser of all-male gala