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Queen arrived at Windsor Castle ahead of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations.

The dig also uncovered 150 bronze statues of Egyptian deities and instruments used for rituals dating back to the Late Period of ancient Egypt, about 500 BC.

The act of eating is steeped in cultural practice – which is possibly why news on Reddit and Twitter that Swedes don’t feed child guests dinner caused a stir online.

“Some of us just sing about making the world a better place - he now has the responsibility of delivering on that promise,” says the British singer.

Italy was the first country in Europe to be hit hard by the coronavirus, with deaths spiking to more than 800 per day during the first months of the crisis.

For 70 years, the Queen has doted on a long line of Pembroke Welsh corgis, most of them bred from her first royal dog, Susan.

The Queen has had a love for corgis all her life.

Uvalde farewells two of 19 children killed inside a classroom.

While announcing plans for the US to supply Ukraine with medium-range rocket launchers, Biden specified that the US was “not encouraging or enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders”.

The coroner in British Columbia reports that between five and seven people die a day in the province from overdoses and that half of those happen in a private home, often when people are alone.

Andrew paid an undisclosed sum earlier this year to Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexually abusing her two decades ago when she was 17.

US President Joe Biden and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discussed gun violence, climate change, and the rise of China at the White House.

The flurry of co-ordinated activity aimed at wooing Australia is the highest level pitch for engagement since diplomatic ties were frozen in 2020.

Funerals have begun for the young victims of the Texas school shooting.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

Residents must get COVID tests every 72 hours to take public transport and enter venues. Anyone testing positive and their close contacts must quarantine.

A man masquerading as a wheelchair-bound elderly woman has hurled a piece of cake at the world’s best-known painting – the Mona Lisa - in a climate-related protest at the Louvre.

The city of Sievierodonetsk is key to Russian efforts to complete the capture of the eastern industrial region of the Donbas before more Western arms arrive to bolster Ukraine’s defence.

A man masquerading as a wheelchair-bound elderly woman has hurled a piece of cake at the world’s best-known painting in a climate-related protest.