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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to heed calls to quit after a second aide resigned from a team in crisis over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington.

Italy launched the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics with a colourful ceremony that celebrated the country's history, arts and fashion but where global political tensions surfaced in the crowd reaction.

US President Donald Trump triggered outrage by posting a video depicting Barack Obama, the first black president in American history, and his wife Michelle as apes.

Investigators presume the kidnapped elderly mother of a popular US TV news host is "still out there" four days after she was abducted from her Arizona home.

The son of Norway's crown princess has denied that videos on his phone showed acts of rape, as he broke down during his first day on trial.

The Jeffrey Epstein files will remain online after victims of the disgraced financier said the US Department of Justice had committed to "expeditiously" scrubbing their identities in case notes publicly available.