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A nine-year-old girl has been shot dead in her own home by an unknown gunman who remains on the loose. Merseyside Police officers descended on Kotty Ash, Liverpool, following the bloody rampage which left two others injured late last night. Neighbours heard gunshots ring out in Kingsheath Avenue around 10:00 pm before the …

Elon Musk has launched legal action to summon Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to appear in court as part of his legal battle with the tech company. Mr Musk is seeking to end his $44bn deal for Twitter after alleging the firm failed to provide enough information on fake account numbers. …

A young woman has been arrested for murdering her abusive husband and chopping him into pieces before cooking his remains. The 22-year-old woman from Afghanistan, who is the mother of a five-year-old girl, dismembered her husband’s body and cooked up his remains before she was discovered by police in Iran …

A £63m ($75m) Russian superyacht will go under the hammer after its owner was sanctioned. The Axioma was seized in Gibraltar in March after US bank JP Morgan claimed owner Dmitrievich Pumpyansky did not pay a £17m ($20m) loan. The 72.5m vessel is being auctioned on Tuesday and, because it …

A 34-year-old Saudi student at Leeds University, Salma al-Shebab, has been sentenced to 34 years imprisonment for using a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissident activists. The mother of two was arrested in January 2021 while on holiday in Saudi Arabia just as she planned to return to …

A huge explosion has ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, police say. The blast is thought to have occurred during evening prayers, killing at least three people and injuring dozens more, according to the NGO Emergency. Khalid Zadran, the Taliban’s Kabul police spokesman, was quoted by local …

At least 26 people have been killed and dozens more injured in forest fires that have devastated northern Algeria. Kamel Beldjoud, the country’s interior minister, said 24 died in El Tarf, near the border with Tunisia, as well as a mother and daughter in Setif. Firefighters, supported by helicopters, were …

Rapper A$AP Rocky has been charged with assault with a firearm in connection with a shooting in Hollywood last year. The star, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, is alleged to have pointed the gun at a former friend during an argument in November. Prosecutors say he later fired the …

Zambian TV and radio presenter Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya has won the 2022 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. At 25, Buyoya is the youngest recipient of the award, launched in 2015, and the first of the seven winners so far from southern Africa. He is currently a TV host and reporter …

Officials in Poland and Germany are trying to work out the cause of a mass fish die-off along the Oder river, which runs between the two countries. Thousands of dead fish have been appearing along hundreds of kilometres of the river since late last month. It is thought that a …