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Donald Trump paid a surprise visit to US troops stationed in Afghanistan where he announced that the US and the Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and are close to making a deal. In his first visit to the country, Mr Trump arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8.30 pm local time…

A special women’s patrol unit with Delhi police has been given pink scooters and crash helmets to identify them, leading to accusations commanders are enforcing “girly” stereotypes. The 16-strong unit was formed to make the police more "approachable" to women and the distinctive pink-check livery was adopted to make the patrol members easy to spot. But…

A former Navy secretary who was fired by Donald Trump has attacked the President’s intervention in a war crimes case involving a Navy SEAL as "shocking and unprecedented". Richard Spencer, who was sacked this week for his handling of the case, wrote in the Washington Post that the US President “has very little understanding” of how…

Golf history was made in South Africa on Thursday as male competitors at the Alfred Dunhill Championship on the European Tour were for the first time allowed to wear shorts. Organisers said they were thinking primarily about the competitors’ health when they made their radical concession – one which broke more than a century and a half…

New Zealand has launched the world’s first HIV positive sperm bank in an effort to reduce the stigma around the virus.  Online sperm bank ‘Sperm Positive’ has begun with three HIV positive male donors, who all have an undetectable viral load, meaning the virus cannot be passed on even through unprotected sex.  While the amount of the virus in their blood is so low it…

A 19-year-old volunteer fire fighter in Australia has been charged with arson and accused of lighting seven fires in the Bega Valley area, New South Wales. New South Wales has suffered from a horrific bush fire crisis in recent weeks, with six people killed, 600 homes destroyed and almost 1.7 million hectares of land burnt through. Click…

Lawyers for a British teenager at the centre of a gang rape trial in Cyprus expressed deep disappointment on Thursday after the judge in the case ruled that a contentious retraction statement is admissible as evidence. The 19-year-old woman claimed in July that she had been raped in a hotel room in the party town…

The three alleged murderers of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia were allegedly paid €150,000 to kill her with a car bomb, according to new claims. The alleged assassins initially planned to murder the anti-corruption crusader by shooting her with a rifle, but in the end opted for a bomb which they planted inside her car.…

It was an innocent, even bland, promotion for grocery savings at the Lidl supermarket chain featuring a mixed-race couple and their baby son, which was why no one in Ireland was prepared for the vicious backlash that resulted. It was immediate and virulent, forcing Fiona Ryan and Jon Mathis and their son, Jonah, to flee…

French celebrity chef Marc Veyrat became on Wednesday the first cook to take Michelin to court for docking him his third star in a case the revered restaurant guide warned could open a “Pandora’s box” regarding food critic freedoms. Mr Veyrat, 69, who accused Michelin of wrongly claiming he put English cheddar in his Gallic…