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The letter from US President Donald Trump to the prime minister of Norway over his demand to take "complete and total control of Greenland" is extraordinary.

A faulty rail joint may be key to understanding the cause of one of Spain's deadliest railway disasters in years, experts have said.

At least 40 people have been killed and 170 others injured after two high-speed trains derailed in southern Spain on Sunday.

This time last year Donald Trump was beamed into Davos from Washington to deliver a virtual address that put business and political leaders on notice; the free-trading, liberal economic model, reaffirmed and celebrated every January at the World Economic Forum, was over.

Fighting has broken out between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), just a day after a ceasefire was announced by the country's state media.

Tributes have flooded in for designer Valentino, who has been hailed as an "eternal symbol of Italian high fashion".

Armed bandits have kidnapped more than 150 Christians in simultaneous attacks on a number of churches in Nigeria.

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious cloud in the shape of a bar 2,600 light-years from Earth.

So invading your neighbour is apparently no barrier to being an arbiter of peace.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of at least 23 people killed in a massive fire at a shopping centre in Pakistan, with dozens still missing.