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High-profile people held prisoner in Russia – including British citizen Vladimir Kara-Murza and US reporter Evan Gershkovich – have been freed as part of a massive prisoner swap. In the biggest such exchange since the Cold War, a number of individuals have been freed. They include Mr Kara-Murza, dual UK-Russian citizen, Wall Street Journal reporter

The man accused of being the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks and his two co-defendants have agreed to plead guilty, say US officials. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi are expected to enter the pleas at the military commission at Guantanamo Bay as soon as next week. According to prosecutors quoted by

A former ballerina has been found guilty of killing her estranged husband – in a case dubbed the “Black Swan” trial. Ashley Benefield was convicted of manslaughter at a Florida court on Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Doug Benefield in September 2020, Sky’s US partner NBC News reported. The 33-year-old had been charged with

US vice president Kamala Harris is now the only candidate seeking the presidential nomination, after a deadline passed with no one else qualifying. Some 99% of delegates signed Ms Harris’s nominating petition, according to the Democratic National Committee. It cements her position as the Democratic frontrunner for the 5 November election after President Joe Biden

Bella Hadid has responded to the controversy surrounding her involvement in an Adidas campaign that was pulled following criticism. The US supermodel had been the face of the campaign for a relaunched shoe from the 1972 Munich Olympics – a games at which 11 members of the Israeli team were killed by pro-Palestinian terrorists. Hadid

Donald Trump is going to be interviewed as part of the investigation into his own assassination attempt, the FBI has said. This comes as it emerged that police noticed gunman Thomas Crooks more than an hour before he opened fire – and even took a photo of him to share with other law enforcement officers.

Lady Gaga appears to be engaged to her boyfriend Michael Polansky after introducing him as “my fiance” at the Olympics. The singer performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris games on Friday night. And she may have revealed – by way of the French prime minister – that she and Polansky are set to

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has said it raised $200m (£156m) in the week since she became a presidential candidate. The US vice president‘s deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty said 66% of the funds were raised from new donors, while the campaign has signed up 170,000 new volunteers. US President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the

Robert Downey Jr has announced he will return to the Marvel film franchise as the villain Doctor Doom. The 59-year-old surprised fans at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday night when he was dramatically unmasked by a Marvel panel. Addressing crowds after the announcement that he will play a different character, he declared: “New mask,

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has told a crowd of Christians they won’t have to vote again if they vote for him in November, saying “we’ll have it fixed so good”. The former president, who faces federal and state prosecution for his alleged attempts to overturn the US election result in 2020, was attending an

Donald Trump’s running mate has defended comments in which he said the Democratic Party was run “by a bunch of childless cat ladies”. JD Vance’s remarks, from a 2021 Fox News interview, were reposted earlier this week by Friends star Jennifer Aniston. The actress used the clip to criticise his opposition to a law making

Audiences for Veep, the TV series broadcast on Sky, have shot up since Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for the White House. Like Selina Meyer, the fictional vice president in the show, she is closer than ever to becoming the first woman president. The prospect is tantalising for Harris but the omens are not

Former president Barack Obama told Kamala Harris he “couldn’t be prouder” as he endorsed her to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for the US election. Mr Obama had so far remained quiet after other top Democrats gave the US vice president their backing in the days after Mr Biden pulled out of the

Kamala Harris said she will “not be silent” over the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza following a meeting with Israel’s prime minister. The probable Democratic Party nominee as presidential candidate said she raised “serious concerns” with Benjamin Netanyahu in discussions at the White House on Thursday. The meeting came after Mr Netanyahu met Mr Biden,

Jennifer Aniston has hit out at Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance for referring to women without children as “cat ladies”. The actress shared a clip from a 2021 Fox News interview with Mr Vance on her Instagram story, in which he said: “We’re effectively run in this country… by a bunch of childless cat

Joe Biden has said he couldn’t let his “personal ambition” stand in the way of “saving our democracy” in a live address to the nation from the Oval office -his first speech since announcing his decision to drop out of the presidential race.  The 81-year-old president, who on Sunday abandoned his bid for a second