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Click:traditional chinese clothing fabric A Second World War submarine paid for by charity dances and card games has been found more than 70 years after it vanished. The wreck of HMS Urge, which was built with money raised by the people of Bridgend in south Wales, was discovered by a University of Malta survey team…

McDonald’s has issued an apology over a Halloween marketing campaign for its ice cream desserts using the words “Sundae Bloody Sundae”. On the day known as Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972, British soldiers shot dead 13 people on the streets of Londonderry in Northern Ireland. The wording of the campaign appears to have been inspired…

Around 300 million people will be vulnerable to annual flooding by 2050, three times as many as previously thought, according to a new climate change study. Researchers concluded that previous ground elevation data vastly underestimated the extent to which coastal zones will be subject to flooding during high tide or major storms. Data gathered by…

Hundreds flocked to a Toronto public library to protest a talk by Meghan Murphy, a Canadian feminist writer who has been critical of transgender rights. Although the venue was rented to a third-party group called Radical Feminists Unite, and drew a sell-out crowd, the library has come under sustained criticism for weeks, including from the…

Australia’s Uluru closed to climbers on Friday after a decades-long battle by the Indigenous owners of the sacred site. Thousands of people swarmed to Uluru this year before an official ban kicked in. Anyone now caught climbing Uluru will be in breach of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act and could face heavy fines. To…

The Pentagon has released the first images from the raid that led to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, showing US forces obliterating resistance. Video showed American special forces came under fire as they approached the building, and a helicopter took out the gunmen from the air. Another video showed US Delta Force operators advancing…

The Ukrainian government and Russia-backed separatists have begun withdrawing forces from an eastern Ukraine town in a step toward new peace talks with Moscow over the five-year conflict.   At an investment forum on Tuesday in Mariupol, a city near separatist-held areas, foreign minister Vadym Prystaiko said Ukraine was pulling back troops from the contact…

A Russia-linked Facebook influence campaign has targeted African countries where Russian military advisors, mercenaries and political consultants are reportedly operating, including Libya and Mozambique, according to cyber threat experts. The allegations come after Vladimir Putin hosted 43 African heads of state in Sochi on the Black Sea last week, signing deals on arms, energy and…

Iraqi security forces wearing masks and black plainclothes opened fire at protesters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding hundreds, security officials said, in one of the deadliest single attacks since the country was engulfed by protests this month. The attack, which happened overnight, came as Iraqis took to…

A former Gurkha soldier and special forces member has broken the record for climbing the world’s highest peaks and rescued three fellow climbers on the way. Nirmal Purja on Tuesday completed his ascent of the world’s 14 tallest mountains, knocking nearly seven-and-a-half years off the previous record. Mr Purja reached the top of all the…