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An 11-year-old Irish girl has died after falling from a hotel balcony in Majorca. The girl has been named locally as Clodagh Phelan from Co Wicklow. A spokesperson for the Civil Guard on the Spanish island said it received reports of a girl falling from a hotel balcony when her parents were asleep on Sunday night.It said a person at the hotel reported the emergency the morning after when he found […]

Sharks in waters off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, scientists say.Researchers have long suggested that sea life could be impacted by drugs dumped into the water by smugglers, with tonnes of cocaine found around Florida, South and Central America. A study from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil has now found evidence sharks are in fact being affected by drugs polluting the ocean.The scientists dissected 13 […]

The state of the UK's armed forces, hollowed out by decades of cuts, is "much worse than we thought", Defence Secretary John Healey has revealed.The comments came as Ukraine's former military chief warned that Britain and other democracies need to "wake up" and consider how to protect themselves from another world war - a level of readiness that would require all of society, not just the military, to be prepared. […]

Kamala Harris has started her first full day of campaigning in the White House race as she vowed to win November's presidential election.The US vice president made the remarks on X a day after Mr Biden announced he was quitting the 2024 contest and throwing his weight behind his number two. Ms Harris wrote she was going to visit staff at the campaign headquarters in Delaware.She said: "It's the first […]

Joe Biden has announced he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race - but will continue in post for the rest of his term. After succumbing to pressure from within his own party to abandon his re-election bid, he now faces a chorus from Republicans who argue that he should resign from the job of president right away. Meanwhile, the Democrats are discussing who should replace Mr Biden on the […]

As President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, Hollywood was quick to react with Cher, Cardi B, Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro and John Legend among the celebrities weighing in.Grammy-winning singer John Legend said Joe Biden had "more than earned re-election, but time and age come for us all", in a post on Instagram before endorsing Kamala Harris to replace the president on the ticket. Cher, in […]

First Lady Jill Biden and Hunter Biden have responded to Joe Biden's announcement that he is stepping down from the presidential race.Dr Biden, whose loyalty to the president has been unswerving during their 47 years of marriage, shared his historic statement on social media platform X and added a simple heart emoji. Hunter Biden said that for his "entire life" he had looked at his father "in awe".He added: "How […]

A "brave and heroic" father has died after being struck by a train while trying to rescue his twin daughters whose pram had rolled on to the tracks in Australia.One of the two-year-old girls was also killed while the other sister was not injured in the tragedy at Carlton railway station in Sydney on Sunday, Australia's 9News reported.New South Wales (NSW) Police Superintendent Paul Dunstan said the girls' mother, who […]

China's emergency services are still searching for more than 30 missing people after a bridge collapsed on Friday night during flooding in the western province of Shaanxi.So far, a dozen people have been found dead after more than 20 cars plummeted into the river when the bridge snapped.There's now a gaping hole where the highway bridge used to be. One side is undamaged. But on the other side, the road […]