One minute he was gazing at the New York skyline, the next he was plummeting five storeys to the ground to an almost certain death.

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More than a half a million people in the US could die from COVID-19 by the end of February, but about 130,000 of those lives could be saved if everybody wore masks, a new study says.

Plant-based products that do not contain meat can continue to be labelled “sausages” or “burgers,” European politicians said, as they rejected a proposal backed by the meat industry to ban the terms.

The former US president promised Americans that if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris win the election then “you won’t have to think about the crazy things they said every day”.

The arid plains of Arizona have long been reliably Republican territory. But some lifelong conservatives no longer feel at home in Donald Trump’s party.

The gruesome beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty has stunned France and forced it to consider some tough decisions.

The gruesome beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty has stunned France and forced it to consider some tough decisions.

Hospital systems are at risk of buckling under the strain of soaring numbers of COVID-19 infections that have put the continent once again at the centre of the global pandemic.

Attempts to find the separated parents have been going on for years but the number of parents deemed “unreachable” is much larger than was previously known.