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He was one of the world’s leading black ballet stars, the first to win international fame. Tributes have poured in for the pioneering US dancer Arthur Mitchell – who’s died at the age of 84. He won over audiences in segregation-era America who were shocked by his pairing with a white prima ballerina – later…

The Pentagon unveiled its first Trump-era strategy for cyber security earlier this week – naming Russia and China among the main threats. From the risk to critical infrastructure and financial institutions, to the democratic process itself – modern warfare and defence is entering a whole new realm. We’ve been talking to a former director of America’s National…

It’s nearly three years since the Zika epidemic appeared – creating world-wide alarm after a spike in babies with birth defects whose mothers contracted the virus. Many of those cases were concentrated in Brazil, where at least 3,000 babies were born with a condition called microcephaly. Now two mothers who were affected have come to…

The Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said Myanmar must ensure there is “no hiding place” for those who carried out crimes against the Rohingya minority – if it is to avoid “a lasting stain on the country’s reputation”.

A summit that started with warm mood music ended up with Theresa May and Britain out in the cold.

One of the writers of Sesame Street has claimed he based two of them, the flatmates Bert and Ernie, on himself and his boyfriend.

Venezuela’s President facing a furious backlash at home over the last foreign trip he made, when he stopped in Istanbul to dine on a sumptuous steak dinner with a celebrity chef.

Day two of the summit between North and South Korea came with promises from the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that he would shut down a key missile test site.

So how will the EU’s major players go about solving a problem like Theresa? 

It was all hugs, warm smiles and cheering crowds in North Korea today, as the South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrived for a three-day summit with Kim Jong-un.

Alexandra Bulata, a Romanian PhD student in London, who’s written about the prospects for EU citizens living in the UK after Brexit, and Enam Ali, a Bangladeshi-born British businessman and founder of The British Curry Awards, discuss post-Brexit migration.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a “chain of tragic circumstances” was to blame for the shooting down of a Russian military aircraft by a Syrian missile.

Erica York, from the Tax Foundation think tank, and Republican strategic adviser, John Burnett, discuss the trade dispute between the US and China.

From aircraft to coffee and smoked beef, China has slapped retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion worth of American products, in yet another escalation of the trade war.

Workers coming to the UK from European countries should not be given preferential treatment over those from the rest of the world, according to a major report commissioned by the government.