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Tim Walz's wife has confirmed she did not use IVF to have their daughter, as the Democrat's rival JD Vance accused him of lying about the fertility treatment the couple underwent.Mr Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee for November's US election, had previously suggested he and his wife Gwen had undergone IVF to conceive their daughter. But now Mrs Walz has told Glamour magazine they used intrauterine insemination (IUI) and […]

Barack Obama has warned the sequel is "usually worse" than the first movie as he and Michelle Obama tried to rally their party in the race against Donald Trump.Speaking on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Mr Obama said the country does not need another four years of "bluster" and "chaos". "We have seen that movie before - and we all know that the sequel is usually worse," […]

The British mother who says she held her baby daughter above the waves as the yacht sank near Sicily was sleeping on deck as the storm hit, an Italian doctor has said.Charlotte Golunski was among 22 people on board the Bayesian when a tornado struck on Monday morning, with one dead and another six still missing. Ms Golunski, 35, survived along with 14 others, revealing to Italian newspaper la Repubblica […]

A British-flagged superyacht has sunk off the coast of Sicily, leaving at least one person dead and six others missing. Among those still lost are British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, the chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley International Jonathan Bloomer, and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance.It's believed the yacht was struck by a sudden and powerful storm in the early hours of Monday […]

A man who police said confessed to killing 42 women and was being detained over the discovery of dismembered bodies in Kenya's capital has escaped from custody.Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, was being held at a police station in Nairobi after a court allowed detectives seven more days to investigate his alleged crimes before charging him. Early on Tuesday morning, Khalusha was said to have escaped along with 12 other inmates […]

The Israeli military says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages in an overnight operation in Gaza.It comes as the US secretary of state Antony Blinken called on Hamas to agree to a "bridging" proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza after it gained the backing of Israel.Speaking after a meeting with Israel's prime minister, Mr Blinken said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed with the proposal - which […]

The Bayesian, the award-winning superyacht, sank during a tornado off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday.The body of one person has been found, but six others - including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch - remain missing. But what do we know about the ship?The British-flagged 56 metre ship - previously called the Salute - was built in 2008 by Italian shipyard Perini Navi, and refitted in […]

The US has called on Hamas to agree to a bridging proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza after it gained the backing of Israel.Speaking after a meeting with Israel's prime minister, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed with the proposal - which would lead to a ceasefire and see the return of Israeli hostages. The US politician did not say whether the so-called bridging proposal […]

A controversial shrine which honours Japan's war dead - including convicted war criminals - has been vandalised for the second time this year.A stone pillar at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo was found with "toilet" written on it in Chinese on Monday, according to Japanese media. It comes after a stone pillar at the site was spray-painted red in May, with a Chinese suspect arrested the following month.Yasukuni honours 2.5 million […]