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Donald Trump has rejected suggestions that the warming of relations between China, Russia and their allies poses a challenge to the US on the global stage. The US president told reporters in the Oval Office that he had “a good relationship” with President Xi Jinping and that China “needs us more than we need them”.…

The Northern Lights were spotted in the skies across the UK on Monday night. Video shows a timelapse above the North Sea, it consists of 782 separate photographs and was filmed over three hours and 40 minutes. The display was captured from Flamborough in east Yorkshire, by Astro Dog, an astronomy and astrophotography business based…

Carlos Alcaraz says he is “here to entertain” after producing another brilliant performance to beat Jiri Lehecka and reach the US Open semi-finals. The Spaniard took less than two hours to beat the Czech 6-4 6-2 6-4 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. The five-time Grand Slam winner laid down an early marker by…

US President Donald Trump has said he was ‘very active’ over the Labor Day holiday weekend and dismissed reports on social media about his health as “fake news”. The president was responding to a reporter’s question about online rumours that he had died, following several days since he had been seen in public. Trump also…

Some people killed during a earthquake in Afghanistan had to be buried on a mountain top, because it was too difficult to cross the terrain and get their bodies down, the BBC has been told. More than 800 people died in the 6.0 magnitude quake in eastern Afghanistan, which was followed by a 5.2 magnitude…

Paul KirbyEurope digital editor NurPhoto via Getty Images The AfD is hoping to treble its vote in Germany’s most populous state As many as six candidates for Germany’s far-right AfD have died in recent weeks ahead of local elections in the big western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Police have made clear there is no evidence…

Xinhua North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in the Chinese capital Beijing along with his daughter, Kim Ju Ae, to attend a major military parade. The “Victory Day” parade on Wednesday will see him rub shoulders with China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other world leaders. Photos showed Kim stepping off his…

Burkina Faso’s unelected transitional parliament has passed a bill banning homosexual acts, a little over a year after a draft of an amended family code that criminalised homosexuality was adopted by the country’s cabinet. The new measure unanimously voted through on Monday imposes punishments of up to five years in jail, and has become part…

A federal judge in California has ruled that President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles this summer was illegal. The ruling comes as Trump seeks to use National Guard troops in order to crack down on crime in other US cities and support immigration enforcement. Trump deployed National Guard troops to…

French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault in 2018. His accuser, actor Charlotte Arnould, said she was relieved the case was going to court, seven years after she filed a complaint. Depardieu, 76, has denied the charges, insisting his relationship with Arnould was consensual. He…