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Met Office issues alert over icy roads and pavements after snow and sleet showers hit UKWinter is expected to tighten its grip on the UK after widespread snow and sleet showers on Tuesday.Wednesday is

Her songs have been hailed as anthems against sexual violence, but the French star insists she has more personal goals in sightWith its sweet melody over a beat made for couples’ dancing, Aya

‘Unethical’ Westminster claims process can re-trigger trauma, says victims’ commissioner Survivors of violent crime are being re-traumatised by the government’s compensation body, according to a

Rolling coverage of the second day of the World Economic Forum, as Shinzo Abe, Angela Merkel and Wang Qishan all speak, and Prince William discusses mental health William: Wartime Brits repressed

Kanakadurga, 39, allegedly beaten and ousted from home for entering Sabarimala shrineA woman who defied violent protests to worship at a centuries-old south Indian shrine that banned females of

Police to decide on Thursday whether to keep searching, as pilot is named as Dave IbbotsonRescuers fear that there is little hope of finding the footballer Emiliano Sala and an experienced pilot alive

Mike Pence, the US vice-president, has issued a video message offering the country's ’unwavering support’ to Venezuelans protesting against President Nicolás Maduro. ‘We stand with you, and we will

Clampdown on stars being paid for endorsing products without disclosing firm rewards themMore than a dozen celebrities, including Alexa Chung and Ellie Goulding, have pledged to change the way they

Five mayors warn their towns could run out of water within weeks and call for their needs to be prioritised over irrigatorsThe mayors of several western New South Wales councils have warned their

The next 15 megacities #9: Known as ‘the city of a hundred lakes’ until most got paved over, Wuhan has a flooding problem. Can permeable pavements and artificial wetlands soak it up?Take a stroll down

Move follows calls to exempt people working in conflict zones from bill that would make it an offence to visit terror hotspotsMPs have passed amendments to the government’s latest counter-terrorism

Subsidies for coal, oil and gas are not falling despite EU pledges to tackle climate change The UK leads the European Union in giving subsidies to fossil fuels, according to a report from the European

Komal Hadala’s hellish treks to relieve herself inspired a campaign that left her Indian village flushed with successThe day after her wedding, Komal Hadala was shaken awake at 4am by her

Filters have never been more prevalent – and it’s leading some people to have fillers, Botox and other procedures. What’s behind the obsessive pursuit of a flawless look? People used to call Anika the

Two years since his inauguration, millions of Americans have built on recent movements such as Black Lives Matter to rally, march and strike against the presidentFor 125 days last year, Ashley Weitz

Jair Bolsonaro plans to overhaul country’s transportation infrastructure despite concerns of increased deforestation on the Trans-Amazonian highwayBrazil’s new government has unveiled plans to

Noodle company Nissin says it will ‘pay more attention to diversity issues in the future’One of Naomi Osaka’s sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is

News Corp co-chairman says Rupert Murdoch ‘definitely never said’ that adding, his ‘mind doesn’t work like that’ Lachlan Murdoch has categorically denied his father ever said that Malcolm Turnbull had

Bolt trialled with Australian side Central Coast Mariners 32-year-old says he ‘really enjoyed just being in a team’Usain Bolt has given up on his dream of becoming a professional footballer, saying

Organisers say ‘disrespecting and degrading women isn’t funny or libertine, it’s just disgraceful’, and they hope other festivals follow suitWollombi music festival in northern New South Wales has