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Brian Sobel is an official Guinness World Record adjudicator, one of only 75 in the world.

A maintenance tender for the funicular cart that crashed in Lisbon, killing 16 people, was cancelled earlier this week because the bids were too expensive.

The US President Donald is shaking up the Pentagon in his latest move.

The influential Italian fashion icon has died in Milan at 91.

As a police funeral with full honours, it is expected to feature a police guard of honour with a flyover from police aircraft.

Italy has opened a call for volunteers from all over the world to judge the world's best tiramisu.

A search warrant application cites possible violations of two laws, including the Espionage Act.

The defence minister has criticised two former PMs for attending a Chinese military parade. Audio

Keeping Louise - a 30kg big cat - was "tantamount to species trafficking," argued Graziella Dode, a lawyer for an animal rights group.

US President Donald Trump told European leaders on Thursday that Europe must stop buying Russian oil that he said is helping Moscow fund its war against Ukraine.

The railcar left the track at a turn and hit a building just metres from its twin at the bottom of the steep slope, leaving a mangled wreckage with bodies trapped inside. Audio

The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staffers pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a raft of criminal charges.

But the French president hasn't revealed which countries have agreed to provide troops.

The best-known contemporary designer opened his fashion house in Milan in 1975, quickly rising to the top of the industry and going on to dress Hollywood.

It's been revealed the defence minister has met her Ukrainian counterpart and other officials in Kyiv.

The lawsuit comes after another challenge to Trump's deployment of the National Guard proved successful earlier this week in California.

The plan is to send hundreds of refugees denied visas because of criminal convictions to the Pacific island of Nauru.