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News imageA view of damaged residential buildings after an airstrike on the city of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran, 03 April 2026.
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Iranian media claim US jet downed over Iran as Tehran targets Gulf energy sites

Iran's Tasnim news agency is claiming the US is searching for one of its pilots after a jet was reportedly downed over Iran - the US is yet to comment.


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Experts dispute US account of deadly Iran sports hall strike in Lamerd

Six weapons experts have contested the US claim that video evidence suggests an Iranian missile could have hit the hall.

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News imageA sliver of the moon and parts of the orion spacecraft off to the side.

Artemis II leaves Earth's orbit on track for far side of the Moon

The mission's last, big push on its lunar journey takes humans out of the Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972.

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Cuba to release more than 2,000 prisoners as US pressure mounts

US President Trump has made clear his desire to change Cuba's leadership and has placed the country under an oil embargo.

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Trump removes US Attorney General Pam Bondi

Bondi's time as top US law enforcement officer was overshadowed by her handling of the Epstein files.

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Marmalades may need to be relabelled under post-Brexit food deal

The breakfast favourite will be legally renamed when Britain aligns with new EU labelling rules.

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No positive tests - Milan-Cortina may be cleanest Games in a generation

For the first time in 28 years, no athlete has been found to have taken a banned substance at an Olympics - so far.

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The Floridian beach town that looks like Santorini

The striking all-white architecture of Alys Beach may conjure Europe and the Caribbean, but its walkable streets and luminous Gulf beaches are pure Florida.

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Film's greatest action hero is not who you think

The Hong Kong actor made a series of films with director John Woo that revolutionised the action genre – and key to them was his beguiling mixture of toughness and tenderness.


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Earth

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