Anyone expecting a showdown when Trump met Mamdani got a pretty big surprise

Trump versus Mamdani was billed as the big showdown. 

Devastation left by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica like a 'world war', says Olympic medallist

A former Jamaican Olympic sprint athlete has described the destruction left by Hurricane Melissa as like a "world war, where somebody drops a bomb".

Trump says Ukraine will have to accept peace plan - but critics warn it has 'real problems'

Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have to approve a proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine.

Gunmen kidnap more than 200 students from school in Nigeria

Over 200 students have been kidnapped from a Catholic boarding school in western Nigeria - the second mass abduction in the country this week.

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Manhunt for teacher at centre of row over transgender student

Irish police have failed to locate controversial schoolteacher Enoch Burke, three days after a Dublin court ordered his imprisonment.