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The US television presenter Chris Cuomo has been fired from CNN for helping his brother Andrew fight charges of sexual misconduct.

The Duchess of Sussex has won the latest round of her legal battle with the Mail on Sunday for breaching her privacy.

We spoke to Anthony Gardner, who served as President Obama’s ambassador to the European Union, and started by asking him whether conflict on the Russia-Ukraine border is possible.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken today warned Russia of the “severe costs” if it attempted to invade neighbouring Ukraine.

At the ongoing trial of Ghislaine Maxwell in New York, the jury has been hearing from the man who ran the mansion in Palm Beach once owned by her former friend and lover Jeffrey Epstein.

She’s the author who turned the story of her brutal rape into a best-selling book.

The trial of the British socialite Ghislane Maxwell has been continuing in New York City today. 

Lights will be dimmed in London’s theatreland on Monday to honour the composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim who died yesterday, at the age of ninety one. 

Police in Wisconsin have named the driver of a car which ploughed at high speed into a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday, killing five people aged between 52 and 81 and leaving dozens injured.

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in cities across the US, after a jury cleared a teenager who shot dead two people at an anti-racism protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.

China’s President Xi has warned President Joe Biden that encouraging Taiwanese independence would be “playing with fire”, adding for good measure that “those who play with fire get burned”. 

Britney Spears has hailed “the best day ever,” as she regained control of her career and personal life for the first time in over 13 years. 

After President Obama swept into town yesterday, more US political star power turned up here today in the form of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Former US President Barack Obama took to the COP stage to declare that the US is ready to lead the world again in fighting climate change, after helping to navigate the Paris agreement in 2015

In the US, three white men have gone on trial today for the murder of the young Black man Ahmaud Arbery.