Dolly Parton died aged 80 “after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer”, her family has announced.

From the streets of Nashville to Washington, it’s no understatement to say Dolly Parton was universally beloved among Americans – and in the present climate, that’s a rare thing.

Dolly Parton is being remembered as one-of-a-kind by a music industry grappling with the enormous hole the country legend leaves behind.

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The US army has not had a chief of staff, the service’s top officer, since April and that’s just one of the many senior positions vacant at a time when the military is busier than ever.

The deaths in Pennsylvania are the state’s first from the disease in 35 years. Two weeks ago, Donald Trump claimed the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine could be “quite lethal”.

Ghislaine Maxwell's latest bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction has been rejected.

Hundreds of people have been damaged when a tornado struck a French village.

A US judge said Maxwell’s bid to set aside her conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence on the grounds that there was “substantial new evidence” was “demonstrably meritless”.

China threatened to retaliate against the US, after the Trump administration announced a fresh economic campaign to strangle the Iranian regime, which counts Beijing as a major trading partner.

The Trump administration is launching new sanctions against Iran and its trade partners.

The Trump administration’s latest vow to inflict an “economic D-Day” on Iran seems fated, yet again, to come up short against the cold, hard reality of global finance.

Is there a more apt depiction of existential futility than a humanoid sprinting at top speed only to slam into a safety barrier?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said countries would be given deadlines to cease all financial interactions with the Iranian regime or face secondary sanctions.

The pact will also see Britain share confidential missile designs so that Ukraine can make the weapons inside their country in the hope of countering Russian airstrikes.

Donald Trump is on track to diminish America’s global dominance, and that’s bad news for its allies, such as Australia.

It is the second year in a row that Beijing has hosted the robotics spectacle, showing its national talent as global competition heats up in the humanoid field.

The US president’s medical measurements are always closely watched and with his weight trending upwards, some physicians say he needs to focus on trimming his waistline.

The controversial Trump aide posted more than 150 times urging Republicans to “FIGHT FOR TRUMP” on the day his supporters smashed their way into the US Capitol trying to overturn the 2020 election result.

Prince Harry and Meghan’s return to the UK heralds a moment of intense danger for the monarchy because almost anything could happen – and very little of it good.