The world’s 10 richest men have seen their fortunes more than double during the coronavirus pandemic, making them richer than the world’s poorest 3.1 billion people combined, according to Oxfam. The ranks of the super-rich have swelled during the pandemic thanks to ample financial stimulus that pumped up stocks, the

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The British man accused of holding hostages inside a Texas synagogue on Saturday demanded the release of a Pakistani woman who is imprisoned close by on charges of trying to kill American service members in Afghanistan. Aafia Siddiqui is serving an 86-year prison sentence in the Fort Worth area after

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Credit Suisse’s chairman has resigned just nine months into the role after breaching COVID-19 quarantine rules – in fresh controversy for the global investment bank as it recovers from a string of scandals. Antonio Horta-Osorio’s departure was announced by the Switzerland-based lender on Monday in an abrupt move that comes

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A series of website defacements in Ukraine this week were “cover for more destructive actions” according to a government official and a technical warning from Microsoft. The high-profile but ultimately ineffective defacements – which came with a fake ransomware notices, according to Microsoft – were immediately reported, but behind the

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A six-year investigation into the death of Second World War diarist Anne Frank has named a suspect who “very likely” gave her family up to the Nazis. A team of around 20 historians, criminologists and data specialists have been using modern investigative techniques to look into the circumstances surrounding the

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Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011, is to try for parole on Tuesday, claiming he is no longer a danger to society. The Norwegian mass killer has served 10 years of the 21-year sentence he was handed for a bomb and gun attack which also left

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Novak Djokovic has landed in the Serbian capital Belgrade following his deportation from Australia over his lack of a COVID-19 vaccination. The world tennis number one arrived on a flight from Dubai a little after 12pm local time after being forced to leave the country as the Australian Open was

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A giant asteroid bigger than any building on Earth will pass by our planet on Tuesday, NASA has said. The asteroid, called 7482 (1994 PC1), measures more than a kilometre in width, at 1,052m (3,451ft). It is taller than the world’s tallest building Burj Khalifi in Dubai, which is 830m

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