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Swindon manager Ian Holloway is expecting "action" after substitute Aaron Drinan was missing from their teamsheet in the EFL Trophy win at Luton.

Swindon manager Ian Holloway is expecting "action" after substitute Aaron Drinan was missing from their teamsheet in the EFL Trophy win at Luton.

Four astronauts, including two from NASA, are set to leave the International Space Station on Wednesday, weeks earlier than planned, due to a medical issue.

Multiple Venezuelan migrants and asylum-seekers said that the country is still far too dangerous and unstable for them to return.

A production blunder at a factory in eastern China has turned toy ponies into viral crying-faced horses which have become popular mascots for the Year of the Horse. In January, a netizen shared a picture of a pony with a crying face and the retailer, amused by the mistake, offered to exchange it. The toy was made in Yiwu International Trade City, which is known as the world’s largest wholesale market for small commodities. The 20cm tall horse which costs 25 yuan (US$4), symbolises the Year of...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. could have to pay as much as $700 billion if it were to achieve President Donald Trump’s goal of buying Greenland, according to three people familiar with the cost estimate

The price of basic necessities rose in December, even as overall inflation held steady.

The summit between South Korea and Japan has exposed a growing divergence in how the two neighbours are responding to a more volatile regional order, as supply chains harden into strategic tools and great-power rivalry sharpens, analysts have said. During a meeting in Nara, the hometown and electoral district of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pressed the case for broader regional cooperation that included China, while Tokyo emphasised closer...

Associated Press BELGRADO, Serbia (AP) — Casi dos semanas después de celebrar el Año Nuevo, muchos serbios volvieron a festejar el martes por la noche, esta vez según la antigua tradición cristiana ortodoxa. Algunas iglesias ortodoxas orientales siguen el antiguo calendario juliano, que tiene 13 días de retraso con respecto al gregoriano, utilizado por las […]

Hong Kong activist investor David Webb, who has died aged 60, has been remembered for his integrity, courage and rigour as a “true pioneer” of the city’s corporate governance. Tributes have poured in online for Webb, who died in Hong Kong on Tuesday of metastatic prostate cancer. He revealed his diagnosis in 2020, saying at the time that one of his final wishes was to live beyond 60. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Professionals Association said on Wednesday that Webb was deeply respected...

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is the ideological arm of Tehran’s military, answering to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and stands accused by Western countries of orchestrating and perpetrating the crackdown on protesters. Who are they? The Guards, known as “Pasdaran” in Persian, were founded in 1979 by then supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “to propagate the ideas of the Islamic revolution”, said Clement Therme, a researcher at the International Institute of...

A worker was killed and two others injured after three gas cylinders fell from height and struck them at a construction site in Tsuen Wan on Wednesday afternoon. Police received a report at about 1.34pm that the cylinders fell as they were being hoisted by a crane and hit the three workers at the site on Po Fung Road. Two of the men, aged 29 and 40, were struck by the cylinders and rushed to Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung for emergency treatment. The younger man was knocked unconscious...