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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWho is Heather Nauert? US President Donald Trump’s pick to be America’s new UN ambassador, Heather Nauert, has withdrawn her nomination for the post. Ms Nauert, a […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Radziwill, seen here in 2004, was a friend to artistic celebrities and fashion moguls Lee Radziwill, the socialite and younger sister of former US first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, […]

Image copyright AFP Image caption Aid has been unloaded from US planes in Colombia and driven towards the Venezuela border Venezuela’s self-declared interim leader has set up a confrontation over US aid by calling for […]

Image copyright Getty Images Thousands of near-naked men seeking luck have scrambled to find two sacred sticks as part of an ancient Japanese festival. It’s thought about 10,000 men wearing white loincloths took part in […]

Image copyright AFP They have staged some of the most comprehensive protests seen in France since 1968, but who are the people making up the “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) movement? The protesters, thus named because […]

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Tens of thousands took part in anti-government protests on Saturday French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned anti-Semitic abuse directed at a prominent intellectual by a group of “yellow vest” protesters […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Women and children waiting in the back of a truck, having fled Baghouz – one of the the Islamic State (IS) group’s last remaining holdouts Shamima Begum, the London […]

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Donald Trump: “Put them on trial” President Trump has told the UK and other European allies to take back and put on trial more than 800 Islamic State (IS) […]