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The leader of Hong Kong has celebrated the 20-year jail sentence given to British pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai, saying the media tycoon had "poisoned" the city.

US skier Lindsey Vonn says she has "no regrets" despite confirming she needs "multiple surgeries" after suffering a leg fracture in a crash at the Winter Olympics. 

All 29-year-old French citizens are to be encouraged by their government to have babies while they still can.

Prosecutors in France have been unable to tell which of a pair of identical twins on trial for murder pulled the trigger in a fatal shooting, because DNA found on a gun is a match to them both.

Police have reportedly used pepper spray and tear gas as thousands of people held protests in Australia over the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog.

The face of a "vampire" whose remains were posthumously mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead can be seen for the first time in more than 400 years.

A white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand in 2019 said on Monday that he was irrational when he pleaded guilty, as he sought to ⁠overturn his conviction.

More than 50 people have died, or are missing, after a migrant boat capsized off the coast of Libya, according to reports.

Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate.

The UK foreign secretary has said a 20-year jail term handed down by a Hong Kong court to pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai is "tantamount to a life sentence".