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<p>Sikh protesters picket outside the Consulate General of India in Canada</p>
India

Canada says India using cyber tech to target ‘dissidents abroad’

Ottawa previously accused top Indian minister Amit Shah of sanctioning attacks on Sikh separatists in Canada

<p>Aftermath of an Israeli attack in Baalbek, Lebanon, on 31 October 2024 </p>
Middle East

Israeli bombing of Lebanese heritage city leaves 19 people dead

Lifestyle

When is Diwali 2024 and how is it celebrated?

<p>A TV screen at the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea shows an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on 31 October 2024 </p>
East Asia

North Korea conducts longest test of intercontinental missile yet

<p>Representational. Indian policeman stands on a road on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, on 31 October 2024</p>
India

Mother sits for hours with head of son decapitated over land dispute

<p>Representational. Police in West Kowloon in Hong Kong on 5 July 2024</p>
China

Couple arrested after woman found dead near waterfall in Hong Kong

<p>File. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets with soldiers on 13 March 2024</p>
Europe

South Korea may send team to Ukraine to monitor North Korean troops

<p>Kim Jong-un with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang on 19 June 2024</p>
East Asia

North Korea beefs up Kim Jong-un security due to assassination threat

<p>Swing of the leangle delivers deadly blow</p>
Archaeology

What made iconic Aboriginal Australian weapons so deadly?

<p>Japan’s puppet town Ichinono </p>
Japan

Village with low population places dolls to ease loneliness

<p>File. Seoul is incentivising childbirth as the country grapples with a declining birth rate</p>
East Asia

Seoul to spend over £3bn to help residents raise children

Tim Moynihan said home swapping has saved him and his wife up to £50,000 (Tim Moynihan/HomeExchange/PA)
News & Advice

Couple’s hack saves them £50k on holidays from Thailand to Iceland

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Editor’s picks

<p>Sunburn festival </p>
Music

Popular EDM festival Sunburn faces massive opposition from Goa locals

<p>File. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visits a special operations forces unit in the west of the country on 2 October 2024 </p>
Europe

Everything we know about North Korean troops fighting in Ukraine

<p>File: A boy looks at Air India aircraft parked at the Mumbai airport on 1 February 2024</p>
News & Advice

What’s behind bomb threats that have disrupted 100 flights in India?

South Asia

<p>Taliban’s minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice Mohammad Khalid Hanafi speaks during a ceremony announcing a dress code from women in Kabul on 7 May 2022</p>
South Asia

Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in bizarre Taliban rule

South Asia

Afghan women ‘banned from hearing each other’ in bizarre Taliban rule

<p>Taliban’s minister for the propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice Mohammad Khalid Hanafi speaks during a ceremony announcing a dress code from women in Kabul on 7 May 2022</p>
Pakistan Polio
South Asia

Pakistan begins new nationwide polio campaign after surge in new cases

<p>A vendor arranges inflated toys while waiting for customers at the Galle Face Beach during sunset in Colombo on September 24, 2024</p>
News & Advice

Tourists warned to avoid popular surfing spot after terrorism threat

<p>Security personnnel gather as they block a road in the northwestern border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</p>
South Asia

Militant attack kills 10 security personnel in northwest Pakistan

<p>Foreign tourists spend the evening at the Galle Face beachfront in Colombo, Sri Lanka</p>
South Asia

Sri Lanka police arrest three people after threat to Israelis

<p>Foreign tourists spend the evening at the Galle Face beachfront in Colombo, Sri Lanka</p>
South Asia

Sri Lanka police arrest three people after threat to Israelis

<p>Bangladesh army personnel stand guard behind barbed wire and barricades at the entrance of the residence of president Mohammed Shahabuddin in Dhaka, 23 Oct 2024</p>
South Asia

Hundreds of protesters try to storm presidential palace in Bangladesh

<p>Afghan journalists at a press briefing by de facto foreign affairs minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul on 19 September 2024 </p>
South Asia

Afghan journalists fear country going dark with latest Taliban move

East Asia

<p>This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows digging along a road in the Demilitarized zone between North and South Korea </p>
East Asia

North Korea satellite images show mystery trenches dug at border

<p>A large crowd of tourists walks through Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul</p>
News & Advice

How South Korea plans to tackle overtourism in its historic villages

<p>North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un visists the command of the 2nd Corps of the Korean People's Army</p>
East Asia

Pentagon says 10,000 North Korean troops set to join Russia’s war

<p>Are North Koreans fighting in Ukraine war? Explained </p>
Europe

What we know about North Korean troops joining Russia’s war in Ukraine

<p>File. The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its office in Seoul, South Korea, on 31 January 2023</p>
East Asia

China confirms arrest of South Korean man on suspicion of espionage

<p>After decades apart, sisters Darragh Hannan and Jee Won Ha embrace for the first time at Incheon airport, reunited through a MyHeritage DNA test that unveiled their shared past</p>
East Asia

Sisters separated at birth and raised worlds apart meet after 39 years

<p>A video provided by Ukraine purportedly shows North Korean troops at a Russian military base</p>
Europe

US says North Korean troops ‘fair game’ if sent to fight in Ukraine

<p>North Korean propaganda leaflets denouncing South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol and wife Kim Keon Hee</p>
East Asia

North Korea drops trash balloon on presidential compound in Seoul

Southeast Asia

Tim Moynihan said home swapping has saved him and his wife up to £50,000 (Tim Moynihan/HomeExchange/PA)
News & Advice

Couple’s hack saves them £50k on holidays from Thailand to Iceland

News & Advice

Couple’s hack saves them £50k on holidays from Thailand to Iceland

Tim Moynihan said home swapping has saved him and his wife up to £50,000 (Tim Moynihan/HomeExchange/PA)
<p>Philippines Duterte</p>
Southeast Asia

Ex-Philippines president Duterte admits to keeping ‘death squad’

<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, walks around what is said to be a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on the launcher at an undisclosed location in North Korea on 24 March 2022</p>
Southeast Asia

North Korea might launch ICBM in November, say South Korean lawmakers

<p>A 29-year-old Malaysian pharmacist, Leong Kum Chuan, was found murdered in Melbourne. Screengrab</p>
Australasia

Malaysian pharmacist found murdered in his apartment in Australia

Philippines Landslides
Southeast Asia

Philippine town near volcano buried in unprepared landslides

Philippines Landslides
Southeast Asia

Philippine town near volcano buried in unprepared landslides

<p>People clean up after Trami caused floods in Polangui, Philippines, on 23 October 2024</p>
News

Mapped: Tropical storm Trami wreaks havoc in Philippines

<p>Philippine coast guard rescuers carry out people trapped in their homes after Trami caused flooding in Libon village of Albay province on 23 October 2024 </p>
News

At least 26 killed as tropical storm Trami batters Philippines

Australia and New Zealand

<p>File. Emma Lovell, 41, lived with her husband and children in Brisbane, Australia </p>
Australasia

Australian teenager cleared of British woman’s murder during break-in

Australasia

Australian teenager cleared of British woman’s murder during break-in

<p>File. Emma Lovell, 41, lived with her husband and children in Brisbane, Australia </p>
<p>Swing of the leangle delivers deadly blow</p>
Archaeology

What made iconic Aboriginal Australian weapons so deadly?

<p>Bluey coins recovered </p>
Australasia

Police recover 40,000 Bluey coins that were stolen from the Royal Mint

<p>Victoria police inspect the scene where a car crashed through a fence at Auburn South Primary School, Tooronga Road, Hawthorn East, in Melbourne, Australia, 29 October 2024</p>
Australasia

Mother collecting child crashes car through school fence killing boy

<p>File: Long Plains area of the Kosciuszko National Park on 24 August 2020 in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia</p>
Australasia

Missing woman with snake bite found alive after almost two weeks

<p>File: Long Plains area of the Kosciuszko National Park on 24 August 2020 in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia</p>
Australasia

Missing woman with snake bite found alive after almost two weeks

<p>Cloud formation, known locally as Taieri Pet, seen over New Zealand’s South Island</p>
Science

Bizarre ‘pet cloud’ appears again above exact same spot in New Zealand

<p>Indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe</p>
Australasia

Woman charged with assault of Indigenous senator who shouted at King

Americas

Tech

A single French gambler spiked Trump’s odds – and people are worried

<p>Donald Trump </p>
LiveUS politics

Harris derides Trump’s vow to protect women ‘if they like it or not’

Jesse Watters asked his viewers if they were ready to elect a ‘frightened woman’ as president
US politics

Watters says secretly voting for Harris would be like ‘having affair’

<p>Rudy Giuliani speaks a crowd in New York City. Lawyers for the election workers he defamed claim he is not ‘ready’ to hand over his property </p>
US politics

Giuliani isn’t ‘ready’ to handover his NYC apartment

<p>Starbucks will stop charging for non-diary milk alternatives in November - a move which could save consumers 10 percent on their coffees </p>
Americas

Starbucks will stop charging extra for non-dairy milk

<p>Jospeh Hill Jr has been charged with failure to report a death and concealing a dead body</p>
US Crime News

Son accused of keeping dad’s body in a freezer in backyard for years

<p>Rudy Giuliani speaks a crowd in New York City. Lawyers for the election workers he defamed claim he is not ‘ready’ to hand over his property </p>
US politics

Giuliani isn’t ‘ready’ to handover his NYC apartment

<p>Starbucks will stop charging for non-diary milk alternatives in November - a move which could save consumers 10 percent on their coffees </p>
Americas

Starbucks will stop charging extra for non-dairy milk

<p>Jospeh Hill Jr has been charged with failure to report a death and concealing a dead body</p>
US Crime News

Son accused of keeping dad’s body in a freezer in backyard for years

<p>After years in shortage, weight loss and diabetes drugs Ozempic and Wegovy are now considered to be “available”</p>
Health

Ozempic, Wegovy considered ‘available’ after years in shortage

<p>Jake Paul admits he’s ‘nervous’ as he reveals presidential endorsement in 20-minute video.</p>
Culture

Jake Paul admits he’s ‘nervous’ as he reveals president endorsement

US politics

I went trick-or-treating with the Bidens. It was genuinely scary

US politics

Two-thirds of Americans are anxious about the election, new poll finds

<p>Michelle Obama welcomes Melania Trump and Donald Trump to the White House on the day of his inauguration, on January 20 2017 </p>
US politics

Trump warns Michelle Obama made ‘big mistake’ by being ‘nasty’ to him

<p>Donald Trump speaks in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on Wednesday. He went on a bizarre rant about Hurricane Helene before praising voters for beating turnout records in the state</p>
US politics

Trump goes on bizarre rant about water in talk about Hurricane Helene

<p>Harris now has a 1.4-point lead over Trump in the latest average of national polls</p>
US politics

Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

<p> Bernie Moreno appears at a campaign rally alongside Donald Trump in March 2024. He is now targeting Mauritanian migrants who have arrived in Lockland, Ohio </p>
US politics

MAGA candidate targets another group of legal migrants living in Ohio

UK and Europe

<p>The isle of Taransay is uninhabited</p>
Scotland

The adventurer’s paradise perfect for exploring UK’s hidden islands

Scotland

The adventurer’s paradise perfect for exploring UK’s hidden islands

<p>The isle of Taransay is uninhabited</p>
<p>Holly Newton’s mother has spoken of how she was unable to touch her in hospital because she was ‘a crime scene’</p>
Crime

‘My daughter was a crime scene,’ says mother of girl, 15, killed by ex

Home News

The ‘millions in taxpayer cash’ funding cruel factory farms abroad

<p>Wear a reflective jacket so cars can see you (Alamy/PA)</p>
Home News

Tips on how to stay safe cycling in the dark and wet this winter

Home News

Huge donation for Brick by Brick campaign to honour Julia Rausing

Home News

Huge donation for Brick by Brick campaign to honour Julia Rausing

<p>Prime minister Keir Starmer and chancellor Rachel Reeves speak with members of staff, during a visit to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, in Coventry, on Thursday </p>
UK Politics

Rachel Reeves admits her tax hikes will hit working people

UK Politics

Watch: Starmer and Reeves speak after Labour £40bn tax-raising Budget

<p>People carry water and shovel mud after flash floods hit Valencia in Spain </p>
LiveEurope

Death toll soars to 158 and looting breaks out: Spain flooding latest

<p>Spain floods</p>
Europe

Spain floods mapped: Where are weather alerts in force?

<p>Many are questioning what caused the devastating flash flooding which has killed at least 95 people</p>
Europe

What caused the devastating flash flooding in Spain?

Morocco France
Europe

Moroccan authorities detain a human rights activist who accused government of 'blackmailing' France

<p>Hundreds of seasonal firefighters attend a protest outside Greece’s Civil Protection Ministry </p>
Europe

Thousands of Greek firefighters left unemployed after summer of fires

Vatican Trial
Europe

Vatican explains conviction of cardinal in ‘trial of the century’

<p>Russian glide-bomb attack on residential building in Kharkiv</p>
LiveEurope

North Korean troops in Ukraine will ‘return in body bags’: US - live

Mozambique Protests
Europe

At least 10 people are killed by police in Mozambique post-election protests, medical groups say

Voices

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves with the prime minister Keir Starmer on a post-Budget visit to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire</p>
Voices

Has the Reeves Budget made it through Day 2 relatively unscathed?

Voices

Has the Reeves Budget made it through Day 2 relatively unscathed?

<p>Chancellor Rachel Reeves with the prime minister Keir Starmer on a post-Budget visit to University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire</p>
<p>During the Budget debate, in a show of ‘poppyflation’, several MPs wore more than one poppy</p>
Voices

Is it now acceptable to accessorise with a Remembrance poppy?

<p>Pro-choice women protest outside parliament in London last year</p>
Voices

I wish there had been a buffer zone outside my abortion clinic...

<p>Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street ahead of delivering her first Budget in the Commons (Jordan Pettitt/PA)</p>
Voices

To the less well off, Reeves giveth… from the rich, she taketh away

<p>Either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch will be the next leader of the Tory party </p>
UK Politics

Tory leadership contest – what comes next? Ask Andrew Grice anything

<p>Either Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch will be the next leader of the Tory party </p>
UK Politics

Tory leadership contest – what comes next? Ask Andrew Grice anything

<p>The chancellor has rather deftly threaded the needle with her IHT changes</p>
Voices

Why inheritance tax changes means a double hit for beneficiaries

<p>When the economic outlook is so bleak, telling young people ‘No more avocado on toast’ won’t help them save up for their first home</p>
Voices

Skint? Tired of renting? Here’s what Rachel Reeves has done for Gen Z…

Sport

LiveFootball

Man Utd news LIVE: Amorim to be announced as new manager

LiveFootball

Man Utd news LIVE: Amorim to be announced as new manager

<p>Ruben Amorim says the ‘soap opera’ of his move to Old Trafford is coming to an end</p>
Football

Ruben Amorim promises more clarity over ‘soap opera’ move to Man Utd

<p>Three days of mourning have been declared with many people still missing </p>
Football

Real Madrid’s trip to Valencia postponed amid deadly flooding in Spain

<p>Jesse Lingard is thriving under Kim Gi-dong for FC Seoul </p>
Football

Lingard becomes ‘true Korean’ after rediscovering form for FC Seoul

<p>LENOVO-FIFA</p>
Football

Fifa accused of contributing to human rights abuses in new report

<p>LENOVO-FIFA</p>
Football

Fifa accused of contributing to human rights abuses in new report

Valencia’s LaLiga game against Real Madrid on Saturday has been postponed following the devastating floods to hit the region (Nick Potts/PA)
Football

Real Madrid’s LaLiga match at Valencia among games postponed due to floods

<p>Bruno Fernandes could flourish under expected new manager Ruben Amorim</p>
Football

Ruben Amorim’s arrival could unlock Bruno Fernandes’ true potential

Ben Stokes has agreed a new two-year central contract (John Walton/PA)
Cricket

Captains Stokes and Buttler sign two-year England contracts

<p>Fans celebrate on the streets after the Los Angeles Dodgers won against the New York Yankees in the baseball World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in downtown Los Angeles</p>
MLB

At least a dozen arrested in LA as fans celebrate World Series win

<p>The All Blacks perform a haka before every Test match </p>
Rugby Union

All Blacks hit back at England prop Joe Marler over haka criticism

<p>Mike Tyson will fight professionally for the first time in 19 years, as he boxes Jake Paul </p>
Boxing

Mike Tyson: ‘I’m not a nice person, there’s nothing nice about me’

Darcy Graham is back in the Scotland XV on Saturday (Jane Barlow/PA)
Rugby Union

Darcy Graham returns as Scotland take on Fiji

Sport

How to bet online: A guide to wagering with online bookmakers

Jordie Barrett will return to the New Zealand side against England (Mike Egerton/PA)
Rugby Union

Jordie Barrett returns from knee injury for New Zealand clash with England

<p>Jeffrey Guan, in action at the Australian Open in December 2023, has lost sight in his left eye</p>
Golf

Pro golfer to continue career despite being blinded in one eye by ball

Lifestyle

<p>Janelle Monae debuts E.T. Halloween costume on Instagram </p>
Lifestyle

Janelle Monae disturbs fans with deeply accurate ET Halloween costume

<p>Sustainability is set to be one of the main interior trends for 2025 (Redrow Homes/PA)</p>
Lifestyle

The key 2025 interior trends to expect – and how to get ready for them

<p>A Trumpkin: Jamie would like to develop his portraiture skills </p>
Health & Families

Pumpkin carver who brings ‘terrifying people’ to life earns thousands

Lifestyle

Kim Kardashian shares Ivanka Trump birthday post days before election

Lifestyle

Janey Godley is in ‘final beats of her life,’ daughter confirms

<p>Lotions and potions: hands need a moisture top-up, but some are going further than cream </p>
Lifestyle

There is a simple reason people are injecting Botox into their hands

Lifestyle

Kim Kardashian shares Ivanka Trump birthday post days before election

Lifestyle

Janey Godley is in ‘final beats of her life,’ daughter confirms

<p>Lotions and potions: hands need a moisture top-up, but some are going further than cream </p>
Lifestyle

There is a simple reason people are injecting Botox into their hands

Climate

<p>A man crosses a flooded street near to Monumento a las Hermandades y Cofradías de Jerez in Spain</p>
LiveEurope

British man among 95 dead as dozens missing in Span floods - latest

LiveEurope

British man among 95 dead as dozens missing in Span floods - latest

<p>A man crosses a flooded street near to Monumento a las Hermandades y Cofradías de Jerez in Spain</p>
<p>File. A woman looks out towards Tokyo’s western suburbs as Mount Fuji looms in the distance</p>
News

There is still no snow on Mount Fuji - first time in 130 years

<p>A cow grazes in a pasture at dawn last month, and a Hays, Kansas, wind turbine whirls in the distance. Cows and other livestock contribute to global emissions of the greenhouse gas methane. Methane emissions are surging, scientists warn, contributing to planet-wide warming. </p>
News

Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn

<p>A teenage girl uses her cell phone. Social media use, emails and texts all have a quantifiable carbon footprint that may surprise some users</p>
Climate

Every email, TikTok and text being sent is killing the environment

<p>A drone shot shows decimated Florida beach houses after Hurricane Milton made landfall in the state earlier this month. The risk of tropical activity could extend into December, forecasters say</p>
Americas

Warm oceans are extending the threat of hurricanes deeper in the year

<p>A drone shot shows decimated Florida beach houses after Hurricane Milton made landfall in the state earlier this month. The risk of tropical activity could extend into December, forecasters say</p>
Americas

Warm oceans are extending the threat of hurricanes deeper in the year

<p>Thick smog engulfs Delhi, India </p>
India

Delhi air turns ‘very poor’ and set to worsen over Diwali holiday

<p>River dwellers carry water on the sandbanks of Brazil’s Madeira river last September. The country was threatened by widespread drought and wildfires this summer. A new UN report details the “catastrophic” rise in temperatures </p>
Climate

World is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature

Culture

News

Netflix is about to remove a huge selection of movies

<p>Anna Maxwell Martin in ‘Until I Kill You’ </p>
News

The horrifying true story behind ITV’s Until I Kill You

<p>Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison in ‘Anora’ </p>
Reviews

The funny, chaotic, tender Anora is Cinderella with sex workers

<p>Hugh Grant in ‘Heretic’ </p>
Reviews

It’s the Hugh Grant we know in Heretic – that’s what makes it scary

<p>Kim Kardashian and Saint West</p>
News

Kim Kardashian’s son’s YouTube channel removed after anti-Harris posts

News

Meet the cast of the long-anticipated Wolf Hall sequel

News

Actor roasts Trump’s garbage truck stunt with one brutal line

Reviews

The Cure’s first album in 16 years is proof no one does misery better

Premium

<p>Ellen Wilkinson, the first female education secretary, pictured in her home at her desk in 1924 </p>
UK Politics

Why it is wrong to sneer at Rachel Reeves’ heroine ‘Red Ellen’

UK Politics

Why it is wrong to sneer at Rachel Reeves’ heroine ‘Red Ellen’

<p>Ellen Wilkinson, the first female education secretary, pictured in her home at her desk in 1924 </p>
<p>‘We will see fewer new rental properties coming to the market, creating a more competitive environment for tenants’ </p>
Voices

What Rachel Reeves’s Budget really means for the housing market

<p>Clubbers in Brighton: ‘Most people in the UK are at a very low risk of being affected’ </p>
Voices

Should clubbers now be worried about catching Mpox?

<p>‘They think it’s all wealthy people who are buying an advantage and wearing boaters at school – we’re not all Etons and Harrows, that’s the minority’ </p>
Education

Meet the parents going to court over the VAT on private schools

<p>Rachel Reeves’s problem is that she struggles to remember not to look so infernally pleased with herself all the time...</p>
Voices

No rabbits in the Budget – but the real surprise is on working people

<p>Rachel Reeves’s problem is that she struggles to remember not to look so infernally pleased with herself all the time...</p>
Voices

No rabbits in the Budget – but the real surprise is on working people

<p>As he listened to the Budget, Rishi Sunak underwent a Hulk-like transformation</p>
Voices

Rishi the Hulk’s last hurrah: angry, energised, personally affronted

<p>Rachel Reeves before delivering her ‘Budget for change’ </p>
Voices

Labour can’t afford another Budget like this

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