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Two Italian students accused of starting a wildfire that damaged a vast area of forest have been fined an astounding €27 million (£23.4m) by the country’s forestry service. The young men lit a barbecue in a garden near Lake Como in the north of Italy on December 30 to celebrate the approach of the New…

Billionaire French tycoons faced a mounting backlash on Wednesday over tax breaks on their huge donations to restore Notre-Dame, as Yellow Vest protestors said the hundreds of millions of euros should be spent on tackling France’s social problems. The contributions to the cathedral’s renovation approached €900 million (£780m) on Wednesday as the owners of Chanel and…

Emmanuel Macron is to close France’s elite ENA school for future leaders, raise small pensions, cut taxes and push the French to “work more”, under radical plans leaked to the media. Mr Macron, the French president, was due to announce the measures in a hotly anticipated televised address on Monday in response to a two-month…

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo is poised to win a second term, based on unofficial results released within hours of polls closing.  The so-called “quick counts”, using data from some of the Southeast Asian nation’s 800,000 polling stations, gave Mr Widodo, 57, also known as Jokowi, a substantial lead over his rival Prabowo Subianto, 67, a…

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.…