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Three new victims have been unearthed - almost 2000 years after a catastrophic eruption buried the town, killing thousands.

Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election overnight, according to unofficial results.

A statement claims Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe.

Critics have said the measures don't go far enough stating, "no one will be fooled by this measure".

The European Union slapped Meta with a record $1.95 billion privacy fine and ordered it to stop transferring users' personal information across the Atlantic by October.

Dozens of officers were seen combing a dam just 50 kilometres from where Maddie was last seen.

Portuguese police have said they will resume searching for Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared in the country's Algarve region in 2007, in the next few days.

Prince William has paid a visit to Eton's rowing centre in Windsor to meet with crew members taking part in a rowing challenge across the Atlantic.

Famagusta was once home to the biggest tourist hotspot in Cyprus, but now it's a derelict and abandoned ghost town, holding remnants of a painful past that the island is still struggling to forget.

As Australia facing a growing housing crisis, overseas many cities have been in population decline, in some cases for decades.

More than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water over the last three decades.

Newly-discovered human remains have provided new insights into the devastating impact of Mount Vesuvius in the first century.

A German court has convicted five men of breaking into a Dresden museum and stealing 21 pieces of jewelry containing more than 4300 diamonds.

The main opposition candidate now faces a tough battle to win the second round on May 28 after Erdogan performed better than some opinion polls had suggested.

Authorities in Serbia have displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the nation.

Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine as the contest was underway, and Ukrainian media reported a strike in Ternopil, home town of Ukraine's Eurovision entry, Tvorchi.

Bobi, a Portuguese pooch who was declared the world's oldest dog by Guinness World Records in February, celebrated his 31st birthday on Thursday.

Eurovision, the zany, annual pop extravaganza, begins this week in Liverpool. Here's everything you need to know.

Alice Chambers was arrested when she was standing next to a group of would-be environmental protesters.

The synth-metal band were loudly cheered after stunning fans in the annual music contest.

Iran executed an Iranian-Swedish dual national Saturday accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people.

A Nigerian senator, his wife and a doctor were on Friday jailed over an organ harvesting plot involving a young man who was trafficked to the UK for his kidney, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in a statement.

The owner of Russia's Wagner military contractor has accused Moscow's military command of starving his forces of ammunition and causing them heavy losses.

It's now been two decades since the era of supersonic commercial flight ended with Concorde's final touchdown in an airfield in southwest England.

A fight broke out between Ukrainian and Russian delegates after the latter tore down a Ukrainian flag at a conference in Turkey.

Police said the shooter drew sketches of classrooms and wrote a list of children he planned to "liquidate" in an attack he planned for a month.

Freya became a social media sensation last year, with tourists and locals thronging to see her.

Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones at Ukraine early Friday.

A Russian vessel capable of carrying mini-submarines were spotted close to the Nord Stream pipelines days before an explosion crippled the major piece of infrastructure, a Danish newspaper reports.

A court ruled the property's usability was "not impaired by the plaintiff sunning himself naked in the courtyard".

It's a long-awaited move after Beijing said it wanted to act as peace mediator in Russia's war against Ukraine.

The warning came as Western and Asian nations raced to mount rapid evacuation efforts.

Sudan's warring generals have pledged to observe a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to pull Africa's third-largest nation back from the abyss.

It's inventor thinks calls it his "iPhone moment", something that will change the industry. A beer expert isn't so sure.

A group of Credit Suisse investors have sued Swiss financial regulators after a government-engineered takeover of the struggling bank by rival UBS left them with billions in losses.

Images from war-torn Ukraine and the battered city of Mariupol have been recognised as some of the best pictures taken in the past year at the 2023 World Press Photo awards.

From a relaxing European river cruise to the eleventh-hour negotiations behind the most high-profile defamation lawsuit in years.

A 17-year-old is recovering from spending 20 hours stranded on a stand-up paddle board after being swept more than 40 kilometres off the Portuguese coast.

For 40 years, curators at the Art Gallery of New South Wales have known there was something hiding underneath this Renaissance painting.

The activist and journalist who twice survived poisonings rejected the charges as punishment for standing up to President Vladimir Putin.

An Austrian researcher has discovered a fragment of the Bible unseen for about 1300 years.

For the 27-nation trading bloc, the reasons to head to China are clear.

The hoard of classic vehicles, believed to be worth millions of euros, belonged to Dordrecht businessman Ad Palmen, 82, who started collecting the cars 40 years ago, according to auction organisers.

The world record for the furthest flight by paper plane has been broken by three aerospace engineers with a paper aircraft that flew a grand total of 88 metres

A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decade-long quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could have buried oceans.

Meghan is set to be a no-show as she stays home in California with the couple's two children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.

The Ukrainian president has vowed those behind the purported atrocities will be held accountable.

Ukraine is calling on Australia to send a whole new range of armoured vehicles to help fight off the Russian invasion.

Macron said Europe shouldn't "take our cue from the US agenda and a Chinese overreaction" and said it wasn't in the bloc's interest to "accelerate (a crisis) on Taiwan".

Some of the roughly 400 migrants on board have reportedly jumped overboard, while other need medical help.