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A legal battle over a trove of Franz Kafka’s papers appears to be over after a struggle that has taken literary investigators from a cat-filled apartment in Tel Aviv to secret bank vaults in Switzerland.  In a nightmarishly complex case that could have sprung from the Czech writer’s own pen, a Swiss court has ruled…

Two Saudi sisters appealed on social media for international protection on Wednesday, claiming they would be in danger if they were made to return to the kingdom. Maha al-Subaie, 28, and Wafa al-Subaie, 25, said they had arrived in Georgia after running away from their family and were worried they would be forcibly sent home,…

French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to rebuild the Notre-Dame cathedral in five years, after a blaze ripped through the 12th century building and destroyed its spire. However John David the Master Mason at York Minister says it cannot be done, "if they want to do a proper job it will have to take at least 10 years." Watch…

Paris’s Notre-Dame, an icon of christianity in France, blazed through the night after catching fire in the early evening.  Onlookers watched in horror as one of the world’s most famous spires collapsed, followed by the 12th century cathedral’s roof.  400 firefighters battled the flames overnight, finally gaining the upper hand at around midnight.  Watch how the…

More than one in ten Nepalese now suffer a chronic lung problem like emphysema or bronchitis, as a result of worsening air pollution in the country. The findings are the result of a study by the Nepal Health Research Council into air quality in the country, which has been labelled the "worst in the world". Air pollution…

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has pledged to rebuild “the epicentre of our lives” after fire ripped through Notre-Dame cathedral and gutted the much-loved monument. Some 400 firefighters managed to save the main structure of the 13th-­century Gothic masterpiece and its two bell towers as rapidly spreading flames threatened to engulf the whole of the building.…

The remains of 41 Aboriginal Australians brought to Europe to be displayed in museums were returned to their descendants at a ceremony in Berlin on Monday. The handover is the largest ever repatriation of Aboriginal remains taken from Australia during the colonial era. Representatives of the Yawuru indigenous group from Western Australia were present at…

Sudanese protesters on Sunday demanded the country’s military rulers "immediately" hand power over to a civilian government that should then bring ousted leader Omar al-Bashir to justice. Thousands remained encamped outside Khartoum’s army headquarters to keep up pressure on a military council that took power after ousting Bashir on Thursday. On Sunday the organisation which spearheaded…

Donald Trump has suggested Boeing should "rebrand" its grounded 737 Max fleet and give it "a new name" in the wake of two deadly crashes involving the jets. The US president tweeted on Monday: "What do I know about branding, maybe nothing (but I did become President!), but if I were Boeing, I would fix the…

Japanese police are questioning the president of a company that manufactured anatomical skeletons after the discovery of the bones of an estimated 500 people in the garden of a suburban home in Tokyo. The man, who has not been named as he has not yet been charged, is the head of a company called the…