‘We will need to take some risks to build a stronger defence capability faster than we normally do,’ says country’s defence minister

National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen was expelled for describing the Holocaust as a ‘detail of history’

Peppino Fappani, 69, narrowly survived the attack in Egypt

The last written notes of a North Korean soldier suggests the troops are being used as bait by Russian forces

The free-of-charge promotional service in Italy will run across 15 tourist hotspots until April 2026

The Amazon boss is anticipating Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Station

Hamza Ziyadne, 22, was kidnapped by Hamas while working at a Kibbutz near the Gaza border on 7 October

It comes as the US is said to be pushing for a truce before Donald Trump’s inauguration on 20 January

Journalist Cecilia Sala, 29, left Tehran on Wednesday after being detained there in December

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of the French far-right, has died aged 96 after suffering suspected heart problems

Unrepentant racist and Holocaust denier founded the National Front in 1972

James Lee Williams, the popular British drag artist and West End actor, has died aged 32

James Lee Williams, the popular British drag performer, has died at the age of 32

Sulala Rescue has rescued hundreds of animals despite facing shortages of food and medicine

The ship and its owner Oboronlogistika were sanctioned by the US in 2022 for links to the Russian military

Giséle Pelicot was drugged and raped by her husband for over a decade as dozens of other men joined in

Giséle Pelicot’s husband used a pseudonym on the now-banned chatroom to invite strangers to his home to rape her

Campaign group Detained in Dubai said it was ‘outrageous’ foreign secretary David Lammy was not helping Marcus Fakana

A French gunman shot dead two migrants and two security guards at the camp near Dunkirk, France

The anonymous fundraiser for Luigi Mangione had surpassed more than $130,000 by Monday afternoon