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A mysterious monolith that baffled police in Las Vegas has been taken down over "environmental concerns".Police said members of a volunteer search and rescue team found it near Gass Peak in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge in Nevada. It was unclear where it had come from, and officers were hoping for help on social media. Image: The monolith was in a remote mountain range. Pic: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department/X […]

Helicopters, rescue dogs and drones have continued to scour the holiday island of Tenerife for a missing British teenager as concerned family and friends endure a "living nightmare".The hunt for 19-year-old Jay Slater from Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, is now in its fifth day. The apprentice bricklayer was holidaying with friends on Tenerife before he disappeared on Monday. Image: Pic: PA Image: Pic: PA He was last heard from […]

Donald Trump's presidential campaign raised substantially more money than Joe Biden's last month, new figures show.The Republican candidate received £111m in contributions during May - with tens of millions sent after he was convicted of falsifying business records. A New York jury found Trump guilty of covering up a "hush money" payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels - with one billionaire donating £39.5m after the verdict was reached. Please […]

As the search continues for missing Jay Slater, members of the local community rallied at a church event as his friends hoped for the return of the British teen they described as the "life and soul of the party".The 19-year-old from Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, was on holiday in Tenerife with friends when he went missing on Monday. He vanished after he told a friend he would be setting […]

TikTok has launched a long-awaited legal fight to stop its Chinese owner being forced to sell the short video platform's US operations, arguing it violates Americans' rights to free speech.TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance were told in April they had until January next year to divest TikTok in the US or face the prospect of the app being banned in the country. Legislation, signed by President Joe Biden, gives the […]

Serbia has threatened to pull its football team out of Euro 2024 if UEFA doesn't punish Croatia and Albania for alleged hateful chants.Jovan Surbatovic, general secretary of the Serbian football association, said they have made a formal complaint about "kill, kill, kill the Serb" chants during the 2-2 draw between Croatia and Albania on Wednesday. He warned the team could pull out entirely if the European football governing body UEFA […]

Filipino soldiers used their "bare hands" to fight off armed Chinese coastguard in the disputed South China Sea, a Philippine military chief has said.General Romeo Brawner Jr, head of the Philippine armed forces, accused Chinese personnel of boarding more than eight motorboats and repeatedly ramming, then boarding, two inflatable vessels on Monday. Comparing the act to piracy, he said the Chinese had bladed weapons and tried to prevent the transfer […]

As the sun rises over the Usumacinta River between Guatemala and Mexico, the silence is broken by the sounds of people awaking after another night camping on the riverbanks.Soon the ferrymen who pilot a flotilla of makeshift rafts constructed of planks strapped to very large inner tyre tubes, begin their never-ending trade of moving fruit and vegetables, construction equipment, crates of beer and liquor, motorcycles and bicycles, but above all […]

A British teenager who is missing in Tenerife had "cut his leg on a cactus" and did not know where he was, a friend has told Sky News.Lucy Law said 19-year-old Jay Slater is "not a stupid boy" and would have flagged down any passing car or spoken to passers by. Mr Slater, from Lancashire, has been missing on the Spanish island since Monday morning. Image: Jay Slater. Pic: Lucy […]