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Oldest cave painting of red claw hand could rewrite human creativity timeline

A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting,

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Israeli strike in Gaza kills three journalists, first responders say

Another eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli artillery and gunfire across Gaza on Wednesday, according to medics.

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Trump drops tariffs threat over Greenland after Nato talks

In a speech in Davos, the US president said that he would not use force to take the island.

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Ghislaine Maxwell to testify before US Congress in Epstein probe

The convicted sex trafficker has previously said she would decline to answer questions unless she is granted immunity.

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US to transfer Islamic State prisoners from Syria to Iraq

The move comes as Syrian government forces take control of north-eastern areas where Kurdish-led forces have long controlled.

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Faisal Islam: What it was like inside the room with Donald Trump at Davos

Faisal Islam said there was mixed reaction in the room during Trump’s Davos speech.

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Trump’s jibes are wearing thin for many of Europe’s leaders

The ball is in the court of European leaders ahead of Thursday’s emergency EU meeting in Brussels, writes Nick Beake.

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Supreme Court sceptical of Trump firing of central bank governor Lisa Cook

One conservative justice warned that the White House interpretation of the law could “shatter” Federal Reserve independence.

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Israel postpones demolition of Palestinian children’s football pitch

An international campaign to save the pitch in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem appears to have forced the

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Train driver killed in second deadly Spain rail crash in days

At least 37 people have been injured, five seriously, in a second crash, after Sunday’s two-train collision in Andalusia.

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Blake Lively called Justin Baldoni ‘a clown’ in text messages

Newly unsealed court documents show Lively criticising the It Ends With Us director.

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Japan restarts world’s largest nuclear plant as Fukushima memories loom large

Japan restarts a reactor at the world’s largest nuclear plant nearly 15 years after the Fukushima meltdown.

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Air India crash plane had record of safety defects, campaigners claim

Campaigners say they have evidence the plane had previously suffered a series of technical failures, including a fire.

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Life sentence for man who killed Japan’s ex-PM Shinzo Abe

Abe’s assassination stunned the country where there is virtually no gun crime.

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Photos leaked to BBC show faces of hundreds killed in Iran’s brutal protest crackdown

The images from one mortuary in Tehran were shown to families who went to identify their loved ones.

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Could US Congress stop Trump from taking over Greenland?

Some of the president’s fellow Republicans oppose him – but it’s not clear if they would join Democrats to block

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Detained veteran Ugandan opposition figure critically ill in hospital, his party says

Kizza Besigye’s party says his condition is critical, but authorities say he was taken to hospital for a routine check-up.

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Spat deepens between Elon Musk and Ryanair’s O’Leary

Musk and Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary have called each other “idiots” in recent days

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UK defends Chagos deal after Trump calls it ‘act of great stupidity’

The US president says it is “another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to

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Shock and confusion as Spain struggles for answers after deadly train crash

Investigators remain baffled by the cause of Sunday’s deadly crash in the south of the country.