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France’s prime minister has warned the second wave of coronarvirus has “brutally” and “violently” arrived in the country after 90,000 cases were recorded in a single day. The figure of 86,852 COVID-19 cases reported by the country’s health ministry for Saturday is a record high for the third day in a row, authorities said, although

Joe Biden has vowed to unify Americans and heal deep divides across the country in his first speech since being named US president-elect. He pledged to “work with all my heart to win the confidence of all of you”, admitting to those who did not vote for him that “I understand the disappointment”. “But now

Up to 150 people are feared to have been killed in a landslide in Guatemala after Storm Eta lashed central America with torrential downpours. Many of those who lost their lives in the remote mountain village of Queja in the country’s central region of Alta Verapaz were buried in their homes under mud, according to

Has the coronavirus shape-shifted just as we’re about to roll out the first vaccine? It’s such a nightmarish scenario that Danish authorities are taking no chances. They’ve been dealing with a mutated strain of the virus that has been spreading through mink fur farms for a while. But the stakes were raised when it was

Teenagers who have a poor diet could be up to 20cm shorter than other young people of the same age, a global study has found. According to research led by Imperial College London, inadequate nutrition may have contributed to 19-year-olds in south and southeast Asia, Latin America and East Africa being the shortest, while those

Donald Trump supporters – some armed with rifles and handguns – have descended on election counting centres where mail-in ballots continue to be tallied up. In the state of Arizona, a mostly unmasked crowd chanted “stop the steal” following unsubstantiated claims that votes for the Republican president were deliberately not being counted. US election 2020

Joe Biden is closing in on Donald Trump in the key battleground of Georgia, hoping to flip a third state from the Republicans and put himself within touching distancing of the White House. The Democrat challenger is now 31,000 votes behind – a much smaller gap than the 372,000 he trailed behind by 24 hours

Diego Maradona has had successful surgery for a bleed on the brain, his public relations team has said. The operation took place at a private hospital less than a week after his 60th birthday. His personal doctor Leopoldo Luque said the Argentine was diagnosed with a subdural haematoma – an accumulation of blood between a

A man’s pet parrot has saved him from a fire that gutted his house. The man’s house in Brisbane, Australia, was well alight when firefighters arrived just after 2am but Anton Nguyen had escaped without injury. Mr Nguyen said his pet parrot, named Eric, had woken him up before the smoke detectors raised the alarm.

Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona will undergo surgery for a subdural haematoma within hours, his personal physician has told reporters, A subdural haematoma is a serious condition where a blood clot develops between the skull and the surface of the brain. It is usually caused by a head injury. Dr Leopoldo Luque, Maradona’s personal physician,

The terror suspect shot dead by police in Vienna was heavily armed, wearing a bomb belt and was an IS sympathiser, the Austrian interior minister has said. Three civilians, two men and a woman, died in the attack, which took place at six separate locations in the city – at least 13 others were injured.

Several people are dead and a police officer is among the injured after a suspected terror attack carried out by multiple suspects near a synagogue in Vienna. Sky’s Brussels correspondent Adam Parsons said that latest reports suggested seven people had been killed. Austria’s interior minister has said on state broadcaster ORF TV that it’s suspected

Two children, aged three and 14, have been pulled from rubble three days after a strong earthquake hit Turkey and Greece, killing at least 81 people and injuring more than a thousand. Rescuers in the Turkish city of Izmir clapped as the young teenager, Idil Sirin, was saved from under a toppled building she had

French police have released a suspect who was arrested following the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest in Lyon, and said the gunman is still on the loose. According to the Lyon prosecutor’s office, the man who was arrested shortly after the shooting on Saturday was released as police found no evidence of his involvement.

At least four people have died and nearly 350,000 are in evacuation centres as a super typhoon hits the Philippines. Goni, the world’s strongest storm so far this year, made landfall in the southern Bicol region, with sustained winds of 140mph (225kph) and gusts of 174mph (280kph). The victims included one person who was reportedly

A Greek Orthodox priest is in a life-threatening condition after being shot in a gun attack in the French city of Lyon. French Police said the priest was fired at twice in the abdomen while he was closing the church at about 4pm and they are hunting for the attacker. Officers locked down the area