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The APEC summit caps an intense fortnight of diplomacy in Asia, following the G20 and a gathering of Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders in Phnom Penh last week.

The expulsion of more than 400 suspected Russian spies from across Europe this year has struck the "most significant strategic blow" against Moscow in recent history and taken Vladimir Putin by surprise, Britain's domestic spy chief said.

The world's largest satellite ground station, on the Svalbard archipelago off Norway, is used by Western space agencies to gather vital signals from polar-orbiting satellites.

Russia and Ukraine both tortured their prisoners of war during the ongoing conflict between the two.

A man allegedly killed his live-in partner and chopped her body into 35 pieces before scattering them all over the city.

A lawsuit accusing the British government of refusing to acknowledge that jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu was the victim of extraordinary rendition to Nigeria began at a court in London on Tuesday.

NATO and global leaders will meet on Wednesday after a Russian-made rocket fell on NATO member Poland and killed two people, raising concerns that the Ukraine conflict could spill over its borders.

The UK has also confirmed the deaths of medic Craig Mackintosh and ex-paratrooper Simon Lingard, who was killed near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine this month.

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) economies will hold a second day of talks on Wednesday, although the schedule at the summit was disrupted by an emergency meeting to discuss reports of a missile landing in Polish territory near Ukraine.

The 4th richest person in the world has yet to set the target amount he plans to give away in his lifetime.

A Texas man allegedly tried to end his wife's pregnancy surreptitiously by slipping abortion drugs into her drinks.

Iran has been facing massive protests over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.

Police have announced a reward of £20,000 to anyone who can help them with information related to the murder of a schoolgirl 25 years ago.

The host nation is on high alert after it was revealed that members of the terrorist organisation are planning attacks targeting the event.

Britain dispatched 300 troops to Mali in December 2020 to join MINUSMA, a force drawn from dozens of countries aiming to bolster the troubled Sahel nation.

The number of migrants crossing the Channel from France to England has soared over the last five years from almost none to 42,000 this year.

The Paris home of an heir of the Louis Vuitton luxury empire was burgled at the weekend, sources close to the case said Monday, with thieves taking high-end watches, jewelry and bags.

A 22-year-old woman from Fresno, California, has been accused of killing her sister and her three-week-old niece out of "jealousy and sibling rivalry."

The G20 gathering will inevitably be overshadowed by Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, which has shocked global energy markets and aggravated food shortages.

The journalists were working in the UK for the independent Farsi-language channel, said the broadcaster, which has been covering Iran's anti-regime protests.

Asking prices for British residential properties are dropping and there are signs that the fallout from the "mini-budget" bond market rout is weighing on first-time buyers, property website Rightmove said on Monday.

A woman who was killed by her husband more than 20 years ago will finally be laid to rest as the police have finally been able to discover her remains.

A 29-year-old Texas woman who brutally killed her friend before ripping her baby out of the woman's womb has been sentenced to death.

The British government said on Thursday it had frozen assets worth more than 18 billion pounds ($20.5 billion) held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and businesses sanctioned over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Thelwell, a York University student and environmental activist who opposes the monarchy, said he had received death threats.

The United Kingdom faced a barrage of questions and criticism of its migration and poverty policies in a United Nations review of its human rights record on Thursday amid allegations that it is backsliding on freedoms.

A woman who got her driver's licence just a few weeks ago managed to drive her car straight into a lake.

A Tory MP has been left fuming with anger after someone left a box of faeces outside her constituency office in Gloucestershire.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday night said his forces would not yield "a single centimetre" in battles for control of eastern Donetsk region while Russian-installed officials described Ukrainian forces moving into one southern town with tanks.