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The Ukrainian president has asked the US Congress in Washington to “remember” Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks, when “innocent people” were attacked from the air, as he called for more support. Volodymyr Zelenskyy was greeted with a standing ovation ahead of his powerful remarks, which he made through a video link from Ukraine. Echoing

The White House has mocked Russian sanctions imposed on senior US individuals, quipping that nobody was planning a holiday to Moscow and suggesting Vladimir Putin’s regime had targeted the wrong Joe Biden. President Biden was banned from entering Russia in response to the sanctions imposed against the country after the invasion of Ukraine. Also put

Supermodel Bella Hadid has said she regrets having a nose job when she was 14 and spoken of her struggles with mental health issues in a candid new interview. The star confirmed she had the surgery as a teenager to US Vogue, following years of speculation about her appearance. Hadid also discussed what it was

Tributes are being paid to photographer Mike Mora, husband of singer Kelis, following reports of his death at 37. Mora had been diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer in 2020 and had shared a series of posts about his treatment on Instagram last year. Kelis’s management confirmed the sad news in a statement to US showbiz

A murdered girl known for decades as “Little Miss Nobody” has finally been identified. Her burned remains were found nearly 62 years ago in the Arizona desert and her killers have never been caught. Authorities have now revealed she was four-year-old Sharon Lee Gallegos of New Mexico. She was abducted from her grandmother’s yard on

Elon Musk has sold all seven of his homes in California for $128million after vowing to “own no house”, according to US media reports. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, 50, is now residing in a small rental home, believed to be worth $50,000, near his aerospace company in Boca Chica, Texas, after selling his seven

Police in the US have arrested a man suspected of killing two homeless men and wounding three others over the last fortnight. The suspect was arrested in Washington DC, where some of the attacks took place, with others occurring in New York City. One of the victims was found on fire in a tent in

A three-year-old boy has shot his mother dead in a supermarket car park south of Chicago. The pair were in a vehicle outside a Food 4 Less store in the village of Dolton when the child somehow found the gun and fired it, police said. His mum was pronounced dead at hospital. His father is

Russia is believed to have asked China for military equipment and other support, US officials have said. Sources in President Joe Biden’s government, speaking to NBC News, did not say whether China agreed to it and declined to say what equipment Russia has asked for and whether it is lethal. The request has sparked concerns

A teenage mother in New Mexico has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child abuse, after she was captured on CCTV throwing her new-born baby in a dumpster. Alexis Avila, 18, has confessed to giving birth to the child at another location and placing him in the waste container. The baby boy was

A terminally ill man has been given the chance of life after his own diseased heart was replaced by a genetically-modified pig’s heart. In a medical first, doctors in Maryland transplanted the animal’s organ into 57-year-old David Bennett and said on Monday that he is doing well three days after the experimental surgery. It is

A New York City apartment block fire was more deadly because an open door allowed smoke to spread, the city’s fire commissioner has said. The blaze on the morning of 9 January in the Bronx was caused by a faulty electric heater, but fire chief Daniel Nigro said many of the victims were killed by

At least 19 people, including nine children, have died after a huge fire tore through an apartment block in New York City. New York City Mayor Eric Adams confirmed the number of dead in the Bronx apartment building fire. A city official who was not allowed to speak to the media confirmed to Associated Press

Alec Baldwin has said any suggestion that he is not complying with a search warrant for his phone is a “lie” – as police continue to investigate the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Rust. The Hollywood actor, who was holding the prop gun before it went off, also said the best

A Chinese man who was brutally attacked while collecting cans in New York City has died of his injuries eight months later. Yao Pan Ma, 61, had been collecting returnable bottles and cans in Harlem to raise money to buy food after he lost his job during the COVID-19 pandemic when he was attacked from

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has revealed how he lost nearly six and a half stone (40kg) in less than six months. The Trump administration’s top diplomat told The New York Post that keeping his weight down had been a lifelong battle. But, on 21 June last year, he decided enough was enough

Three white men who chased and shot a black man as he ran through their neighbourhood have been sentenced to life in prison for his murder. Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was pursued and cornered by Travis McMichael, 35, his father Gregory McMichael, 66, and their neighbour William ‘Roddie’ Bryan, 52, on 23 February 2020 in Satilla

Astronomers have for the first time imaged the last moments in the life of a red supergiant star. It was spotted just 130 days before exploding using two telescopes in Hawaii, allowing a team of researchers to survey it before it detonated in an enormous supernova. “This is a breakthrough in our understanding of what

US President Joe Biden has marked one year since the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol by condemning political violence in an address to the nation, as he also hit out at the former president. On 6 January 2021, Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington DC, putting 15 police officers in hospital

A blanket of snow covers Washington DC at the moment – the heart of what is often framed as the world’s greatest democracy looks picture postcard perfect. But beyond the hyperbole, and a year to the day since the event now known simply as “January 6th“, the reality seems troublingly far from perfect. That day