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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. Among those unaccounted for are Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and Chris

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

It’s been a mad few months, even by American political standards. After Donald Trump’s criminal conviction in New York came Joe Biden’s blunders at that debate, then Trump’s brush with an assassin’s bullet and then that dramatic switch for the Democrats from Biden to Harris. Events have jolted politics here and the Democratic Party’s remarkably

A British diplomat has resigned over claims continued arm sales to Israel could be making the UK “complicit in war crimes”. Mark Smith, who worked as second secretary in the British embassy in Ireland, shared his resignation letter online. In it, he says: “Each day we witness clear and unquestionable examples of war crimes and

Social media company X says it will close its operations in Brazil, after claiming a judge on the country’s supreme court threatened to arrest its legal representative in Brazil if the company did not comply with his orders. X, formerly Twitter, said it was removing its remaining staff in Brazil “effective immediately” though the service

Joe Biden’s optimism about an imminent Israel-Hamas ceasefire is just a bid to keep hostile powers calm and there have been “no improvements”, a spokesman for the militant group has told Sky News. The US president told reporters on Friday he was “optimistic” and there are “just a couple more issues” that US, Qatari, and

Next week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago will be characterised by a mood of relief among delegates. The switch of candidate from the aged Joe Biden to his vice president Kamala Harris has put the party back in contention in this year’s general election, when it seemed set to be flattened by Donald Trump’s re-election

A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is “closer than we’ve ever been”, according to Joe Biden. However, speaking at the White House, the US president cautioned an agreement was “not there yet”. Following two days of talks in Doha, Qatar, senior officials made positive noises about the direction of negotiations. Image: Relatives and supporters

Three months after he was sprung from custody in a stunning – and violent – ambush, French gang boss “The Fly” remains on the run and the search for him is “dead in the water”. Mohamed Amra has been at large since the convoy that was transporting him to prison was attacked by heavily armed

Donald Trump is asking the judge in his New York hush money criminal case to delay his sentencing until after the November presidential election. The former US president was found guilty on 30 May of falsifying business records to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 (around £100,000) payment to adult film actress Stormy

The father of 17-year-old Spain footballer Lamine Yamal has reportedly been stabbed multiple times. Mounir Nasraoui was taken to hospital after being attacked in a car park in Mataro, near Barcelona, Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia reported. His condition is said to be serious but stable, the newspaper said, citing official but unnamed sources. Image: Yamal

Two men found dead in a burned-out car in Sweden were British nationals, officials say. Juan Cifuentes, 33, and Farooq Abdulrazak, 37, were reported missing in July after failing to return home from a business trip to Denmark and Sweden. The pair’s car was found in Malmo, with Swedish media reporting that at least one

A homeless charity in New Zealand has unwittingly given out sweets containing a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine after they were donated by a member of the public. The amount of the drug in each wrapper is up to 300 times the level someone would normally take and could be lethal, the New Zealand Drug

A man who died when the helicopter he was flying crashed into a hotel roof in Australia had been at his own party beforehand. The pilot was flying alone when he crashed and the helicopter burst into flames, Queensland Police said. Nautilus Aviation said in a statement that the man flying the helicopter, who has

Donald Trump told Elon Musk that “illegal immigration saved my life” in a much-anticipated X conversation that was delayed due to technical issues. The site showed that the page was “not available” shortly after the scheduled start time of 8pm Eastern Time (1am UK time) for some users, though more than 115,000 people appeared to