One US ticketholder scoops $1.35 billion Mega Millions jackpot
A customer in the state of Maine is said to have taken the prize, the fourth-largest in American history.
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Violence soars in Mali in the year after Russians arrive
Western officials say violence against civilians in Mali has risen in the year since hundreds of Russian mercenaries have started working alongside the West African country’s armed forces to stem a decade-long insurgency by Islamic extremists.
British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari executed by Iran, state media says
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly had warned Tehran that London was watching the case ‘closely’.
Hong Kong DJ who broadcast for six decades dies aged 98
Ray Cordeiro interviewed stars such as The Beatles during a career that put him in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest-serving DJ.
Cardinal George Pell’s funeral to be held at the Vatican
The funeral for Australia’s most senior Catholic Cardinal George Pell will begin at the Vatican on Saturday.
Lisa Marie Presley to be buried alongside Elvis
Lisa Marie Presley will be buried alongside her father Elvis and son Benjamin at Graceland in Memphis.
Sheriff’s deputy fatally shot in the line of duty in Southern California
Darnell Calhoun is the second depty to be fatally shot in just two weeks
Chasten Buttigieg rips Fox News over interest in partner’s paternity leave: ‘Go yell at an M&M’
Chasten Buttigieg criticised Fox News saying ‘it’s been 17 months. You need new material’
In Alabama, tornadoes rattle historic civil rights community
As a deadly storm system that spawned tornadoes across parts of the U.S. South, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar’s cellphone buzzed relentlessly
Ukraine’s leader wants to visit UN on invasion anniversary
A senior Ukrainian Foreign Ministry official says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to visit the United Nations to address a high-level meeting of the 193-member General Assembly on the eve of the first anniversary of Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of his…