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French ex-minister Dati goes on trial in Renault-Nissan corruption case

Almost 8,000 excess deaths in France's scorched summer: statistics

'Being Heumann' captures joy in fight for disability rights

Saudi Arabia accuses Houthis of targeting Mecca, warns of 'red line'

Ex-president's lengthy war crimes sentence shocks Kosovo

Retired great Nadal to play in exhibition matches

US House faces test on sweeping Russia sanctions bill

IR-MED and Dice Technologies Announce collaboration to Evaluate and Advance Pressure-Injury Prevention Platform in Japan

British PM says to make 'difficult decisions' as inflation rises

Watts, Pitt, Cruz to light up Spain's top film festival

TotalEnergies pumps up controversy in France with cut-price gas

Sweden expels Iran embassy employee over anti-Jewish threats

Global fuel price demos: a round-up

Toogood Gold's Table Mountain Sits in the Shadow of a Nevada Gold Rush

Nuclear arms spending, arsenals swell as global tensions grow: studies

The world's nuclear powers, and China in particular, increased investment in their arsenals for a third consecutive year in 2022 amid swelling geopolitical tensions, two reports showed Monday.

Brentford's Toney speaks of pain of missing out on World Cup

Brentford and England striker Ivan Toney says missing the World Cup was a bigger blow than the eight-month ban he is serving for breaking betting rules.

Bling and bunga bunga: Italy's Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi -- who has died at 86 -- dominated Italian public life for decades as a billionaire media mogul and the country's longest serving premier. But he was always dogged by scandal.

Berlusconi and AC Milan - passion, politics and trophies

Silvio Berlusconi's name will forever be associated with AC Milan, the football club he took over in the 1980s and with his immense wealth turned from a debt-ridden mess to a European powerhouse.

First Covid vaccine side-effect claims land in German courts

Vaccine-maker BioNTech faced Monday its first legal claim in its home country of Germany over adverse effects allegedly suffered by some users of its Covid vaccines, more than two years after one of the world's fastest and most extensive inoculation campaigns.

Chinese superfan books into Messi hotel for glimpse of hero

It took hours of waiting, a pricey hotel room and an exhausting chase through Beijing, but it was all worth it for a Chinese fan of Lionel Messi who eventually got a blurry selfie with his hero.

From property to TV, Berlusconi the entrepreneur

Silvio Berlusconi's career may have been dogged by scandal but he showed genuine innovation in building his real estate and media empires -- even if the late billionaire missed out on the digital revolution.

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi dies at 86

Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister who reshaped Italy's political and cultural landscape while fending off multiple legal and sex scandals, has died aged 86, his spokesman confirmed to AFP Monday.

Italy's scandal-hit Berlusconi dies at 86

Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated Italian public life for decades as a billionaire media mogul, businessman and prime minister, has died aged 86.

Homework will 'never be the same' says ChatGPT founder

Artificial intelligence tools will revolutionise education like calculators did, but will not supplant learning, ChatGPT's founder Sam Altman told students in Tokyo on Monday, defending the new technology.

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