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Prince Andrew questioned over Epstein friendship

Media playback is unsupported on your device The Duke of York has "categorically" denied having any sexual contact with an American woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him aged 17. Answering questions about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey...

US election 2020: Obama issues warning to ‘revolutionary’ Democrats

Former US President Barack Obama has issued a warning to Democratic presidential candidates, cautioning them against policies that are not "rooted in reality".Mr Obama said Democrats risked alienating voters if they lurched too far to the left politically.The former...

Meet Mani Love – the basketball player who’s 4ft 5in tall

Jahmani Swanson, known as Mani Love, plays basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters in New York and has become an internet sensation as he achieved his dreams of becoming a basketball star despite being born with dwarfism. Jahmani is also known as ‘mini Michael...

Colin Kaepernick does not attend NFL private workout

Unsigned Colin Kaepernick chose not to attend an NFL-arranged private workout, instead holding his own session at a high school to allow media to attend.He said he wanted "transparency", claiming the NFL denied media access to its own planned workout in Atlanta.All 32...

Why US tech giants are putting billions into housing

History teacher Leon Sultan was raised in a San Francisco that working class families could call home. That place has, for the most part, vanished.The city is now the centre of America's thriving tech industry, with some of the highest housing costs in the US....

Trump impeachment inquiry: Envoy ‘intimidated’ by tweets during testimony

Media playback is unsupported on your device US President Donald Trump has attacked the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, on Twitter, in the middle of her testimony to the impeachment inquiry. "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," Mr Trump...

Trump’s live-tweets attacking Yovanovitch interrupt hearing

The former Ukraine ambassador responds to President Trump's Twitter attacks while she testifies to Congress.

Roger Stone: Trump ally convicted of lying to Congress

US President Donald Trump's adviser Roger Stone has been convicted on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering.The court heard he lied about his efforts to learn more about when WikiLeaks would publish damaging emails about Hillary Clinton...

Inventor of the famed ‘Sourtoe Cocktail’ dies

Captain Dick Stevenson, the man behind the famed "Sourtoe Cocktail" served at a hotel bar in Canada's Yukon Territory since the 1970s, has died at 89.Visitors to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City are able to order any alcoholic cocktail served with a mummified human...

Watching impeachment hearing in Trump country

The television cameras were rolling on the impeachment hearings for the first time this week. It was a big event in Washington but what about in the Trump heartlands?Many people in the western part of Pennsylvania, a battleground state in the 2020 campaign, were...