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A Russian ship captain has been found guilty of a fatal North Sea crash.

The broken banks of the Limpopo River are now faint snaking lines in a vast sea of brown, stagnant water that stretches out in every direction.

Northeast Syria is rapidly changing hands, and with it the country’s fragile balance of power.

Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning actress who starred as Kevin’s mother in Home Alone and the eccentric Moira Rose in Schitt’s Creek, has died.

China has executed 11 members of a mafia family for killing 14 people and running a crime syndicate worth more than $1bn, authorities said. 

A small passenger plane has crashed in northern Colombia, killing all 15 people on board, including a congressman.

In Iran, the climate of fear has been restored after the clerics who run this country successfully crushed a nationwide revolt.

Airports across Asia have put urgent steps in place to stop the spread of a highly lethal virus.

Heavy rain has tiggered a landslide in southern Sicily causing the edge of a town to collapse and forcing the evacuation of more than 1,500 people.