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The FBI has opened a formal investigation into the death of the US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who’s thought to have taken his own life while being held on sex trafficking charges.  

Greenland’s ice is melting at an alarming rate, and that means sea levels are rising.

The disgraced American financier Jeffrey Epstein is reported to have killed himself inside his prison cell in Manhattan, where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

A 41-year-old man who was deported from the United States to Iraq – a place he’d never set foot in his life – has died in Baghdad, unable to get the insulin he needed to stay alive. 

In the wake of the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso last weekend, President Trump spoke of the need for unity. But his visits to both cities to meet victims and medical staff has done little to bring people together.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised a bright new future for the state of Kashmir that he’s had in total lockdown for the past four days.  

She was an icon of American literature. Toni Morrison, the first black woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 88. From “The Bluest Eye”, which described the troubles of a young black girl growing up in the aftermath of the Great Depression, to “Beloved”, the life of…

America is once again in shock tonight after 29 people were killed in two mass shootings within hours of each other dozens more were injured, many still in a critical condition.

Police in Hong Kong have fired tear gas to break up protests – after one group began throwing bricks and vandalising a police station.

“Do not forget me.” This was 84-year-old Umm Hayan, who lived through five wars in Syria and had become separated from her son. He managed to flee to Turkey but wasn’t able to take her with him. Earlier this month this programme reported on the friendship she struck up with a 12-year-old boy she met in a displacement camp…

In the United States, there’s a rather crowded field of Democratic Party hopefuls who all believe they’re the one to take on Donald Trump in 2020.

Karen Pierce is the UK’s Ambassador to the UN. 

Donald Trump said today he’s the “least racist person on Planet Earth”, but his inflammatory tweets and attacks on four Congresswomen, telling them to “go home”, tell rather a different story.

The UN says over 450 civilians have been killed during the conflict in northwest Syria in the last three months.

Police in California say a six-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a man in his 20s were shot dead by the gunman who opened fire at a garlic festival in northern California.