For more than three months, judges and lawyers have tried to grasp the true nature of Dominique Pelicot, the man who invited dozens of strangers to join him in raping his drugged wife.

Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing health insurance CEO Brian Thompson, has agreed to his extradition to New York.

News outlets need to keep saying Trump is all the things the courts have declared him to be.

Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens of people in Gaza overnight, as Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of genocide and MSF said signs of ethnic cleansing “were undeniable”.

Two highway crashes in Afghanistan have killed a combined total of 50 people and injured 76.

A plane, a helicopter and a throng of police officers with assault rifles heralded the return of the suspected killer to New York.

The trial that has both horrified and captivated France for almost four months has ended with a victory for the woman at its centre. She remains poised.

Trump rejected a bipartisan spending deal negotiated by the Republican Speaker, after a “kill the bill” campaign by Elon Musk on X.

The president-elect’s long-held fascination with the British royals could hold the key to better diplomatic relations between their two countries.

Malaysia has agreed to reopen the search for the wreckage more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.

Cast off by the Nazis but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor – made just before van Gogh’s suicide – has not been seen in 34 years.

The unelected tech billionaire’s role in scrapping a spending deal in Congress alarmed Democrats and watchdog groups, and could result in a government shutdown.

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The X owner, an unelected figure, not only used his outsize influence on the platform to help sway the US Congress, he did so without regard for the facts.

The driver was arrested shortly after he had barrelled into a crowd in Magdeburg, Germany, when the town centre was teeming with holiday shoppers.

Paty was killed by an Islamic extremist in 2020, after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a mandated lesson on freedom of expression.

Donald Trump urged the US government shutdown to “start now”, but a bipartisan a deal was approved by Republicans and Democrats alike at the last minute.

Plus he let his anger show on a visit to cyclone-hit Mayotte by saying: “If it wasn’t for France, you would be in way deeper shit.”

A car has driven into a group of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.

The US government is now hours away from a shutdown after incoming President Donald Trump and his billionaire backer Elon Musk tanked a deal.