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Five people have been hospitalised with non-life-threatening injuries after a pedestrian bridge that was in “poor condition” collapsed onto a busy Washington, D.C., highway. The incident occurred before noon on Wednesday, June 23,  on DC-295 near Polk Street. The collapse was caused by a collision, D.C. Deputy Mayor for Public …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionIn recent weeks, people have placed children’s shoes at memorials to mourn those who died at Canada’s indigenous schools An indigenous group in Canada says it has found hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan province. The Cowessess First Nation said …

US pop star Britney Spears has launched a blistering attack on the “abusive” conservatorship that has controlled her life for 13 years at a court hearing. Speaking in open court for the first time in the case, she accused her father of controlling her “100,000%”. She said she had been …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERS Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges. The Catalan Justice Department said prison medics tried to resuscitate him, but were not successful. It said …

image captionThe paper reported extensively on pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has announced its closure, in a blow to media freedom in the city. The tabloid’s offices were raided last week over allegations that several reports had breached a controversial national security law. …

image captionThere are hundreds of children in some of the tents At a US border detention centre in the Texan desert, migrant children have been living in alarming conditions – where disease is rampant, food can be dangerous and there are reports of sexual abuse, an investigation by the BBC …

 News of rapper 50 Cent’s death spread quickly earlier this week causing concern among fans across the world. However the June 2021 report has now been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports. Thankfully, the rapper best known for hit …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTEPA/REUTERS Early results indicate both President Emmanuel Macron and his opponent Marine Le Pen will fail to make the gains they were hoping for in the first round of regional elections in France. Mr Macron’s centrist party is projected to gain more than 10% of the vote – just …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESimage captionThe virus continues to spread in Brazil amid a lack of co-ordinated measures The number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 500,000 in Brazil, the second-highest in the world, as experts say the outbreak could worsen amid slow vaccination and the start of winter. The virus …

Hardliner Ebrahim Raisi is set to be Iran’s next president after winning most of the votes counted so far. He beat three other candidates in a poll in which most would-be candidates were barred from standing. Mr Raisi is Iran’s top judge and holds ultra-conservative views. He is under US …