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Japan's parliament has voted in the country's first ever female prime minister.

The UK is ready to spend "well over" £100m on a possible deployment of British forces to Ukraine if Donald Trump secures a peace deal with Russia, the defence secretary has said.

A chess grandmaster has died unexpectedly at the age of 29.

An official preliminary report into last month's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon has been released, putting the blame on a faulty steel cable and other maintenance flaws.

A prominent expert in recovering stolen works of art has told Sky News it was "a matter of time" before the Louvre was targeted - and UK museums could be next.

A number of "priceless" objects were stolen from the Louvre in Paris, in what has been called the "theft of the decade".

Nicholas Rossi, an American man who faked his death and fled to Scotland to escape rape charges, has been jailed for at least five years.

A cargo plane has skidded off the runway into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport, killing two people on the ground.

Donald Trump has said he doesn't think Ukraine can win the war against Russia - as reports emerge of a less-than-harmonious meeting between the US president and Volodymyr Zelenskyy .

The internet appears to be recovering after a major outage knocked out thousands of websites, including Amazon, Snapchat, Reddit and several banks.