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IS conflict: Iraqi forces ‘retake most’ of Falluja
Iraqi government forces have retaken most of the city of Falluja from so-called Islamic State fighters who have held it since 2014, officials say. US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said there was "still some fighting to be done" as IS still controls a significant part of the city. But Iraq's prime minister hailed...
Viewing 50 flats, but no place to live
In 2007, when American Erick Feijóo moved to Berlin for the summer, finding an apartment was a piece of cake. He secured a place to live before arriving in the city. It used to be a sport, or at least part of the culture here, to move around But earlier this year, when Feijóo, now 32, tried to find a long-term...
Russian athletes ban is ‘unfair’, says Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin has said it is unjust and unfair that Russian athletes remain banned from international competition, including the 2016 Olympics in Rio. The International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) decided not to lift the suspension, imposed after accusations of state-sponsored doping. Individual athletes can...
‘Wicked’ musical will hit movie theaters in 2019
Something Wicked this way comes. Universal Pictures announced Thursday the smash Broadway musical about the witches of Oz is getting the big screen treatment. Wicked will fly into theaters on Dec. 20, 2019. The award-winning musical, an alternative take on The Wizard of Oz, debuted on Broadway in 2003 and has since been a...
Смерть Дайнеко: скорая отказалась спасать
Актер Алексей Дайнеко, известный по сериалам «Карпов» и «Дальнобойщики», умер в Москве на 47 году жизни. Предположительной причиной смерти была названа легочная...
Ukraine 0-2 Northern Ireland: Euro 2016 – as it happened
Northern Ireland beat Ukraine to earn their first win at a European Championship and remain in contention for a place in the last 16. West Brom defender Gareth McAuley headed in Oliver Norwood's perfectly delivered free-kick before a hailstorm in Lyon forced the players off for two minutes. When they returned, Niall McGinn...
England and Wales fans create electric atmosphere at vital EURO 2016 clash
ENGLAND and Wales fans have braved the rain to cheer on their teams at this afternoon's vital Euro 2016 match in Lens. Despite some violent skirmishes with police and opposition fans last night, the two groups of supporters are in fine voice and mingling together peacefully at the Group B matchup. Welsh fans will be...
Bride who stole £13k in benefits caught out after she posted honeymoon pics on Facebook
A WOMAN who scrounged £13,000 in state handouts by falsely saying that she was single was unmasked as a cheat when she posted bragging pictures of her New York honeymoon on Facebook. Jacqueline Blake, 51, pocketed allowances by wrongly claiming she was living alone while enjoying married life with second husband...
Euro 2016: France expels Russia far-right fan chief Shprygin
The far-right leader of the Russian footballer supporters' association is being thrown out of France following violence at the England-Russia Euro 2016 match in Marseille. Alexander Shprygin is among 20 Russian fans being deported. They were detained on Tuesday while travelling from Marseille to Lille to watch Russia face...
EgyptAir plane’s voice recorder found
The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been found in the Mediterranean, Egyptian investigators say. A vessel with an underwater robot has been searching an area north of the Egyptian coast. Earlier, it found and photographed wreckage in the sea. Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo crashed...
Record numbers in work as UK job market stays strong
The jobless total was cut by 20,000 to 1.67 million in the quarter to April, the lowest since the spring of 2008 at the start of the financial crash. The final set of official labour market figures before the EU referendum next week also showed that 31.5 million people are in work – the highest since records began in...
Why German mistrust made Hitler’s Mein Kampf a bestseller again
As Adolf Hitler's intellectual property rights were about to expire last year, Germany faced the agonising choice of how best to deal with the writings of the man at the heart of the darkest chapter of its history. For the previous 70 years, the Finance Ministry of the State of Bavaria had exercised Hitler's...