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The US coastguard is searching for a British crew member who went overboard from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship about 300 miles off Puerto Rico on Christmas Day. Royal Caribbean

Three suspected drug smugglers have been arrested after failing to escape the police in a high-speed water chase on the Costa del Sol. The Spanish Civil Guard used a helicopter

At least 100 people have been injured in political violence in Bangladesh as the country prepares for a tense election. Thousands of soldiers are being deployed across the country to

Japan has announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), a move that will allow it to resume commercial whale hunts. Until now it has been able, under IWC

The foreign secretary has said the UK “can and must do more” to help some of the 215 million Christians worldwide who faced discrimination and violence last year. Jeremy Hunt

  An Iranian-British academic who was detained in Iran has returned to the UK. The academic and anti-war activist Abbas Edalat, who is based in London, travelled to Iran from

Bono has been busking in Dublin, urging people to donate to a homeless charity. The U2 frontman was spotted singing with guitarist The Edge in the Irish capital on Christmas

More than 370 people have died in the tsunami that struck Indonesia, sweeping away homes and hotels that line the coast. The tsunami hit the Sunda Strait on Saturday

  Christmas decorations have been banned in at least four cities and a county in China. The ruling Communist Party’s emphasis on tradition and the suppression of religion under President

Two fishermen have been rescued by a cruise ship in what has been described as a Christmas miracle. The Costa Ricans had been adrift at sea for about three weeks

At least 281 people have died after a tsunami swept away hotels and hundreds of homes in Indonesia. Disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said 1,016 were injured after the

A suspected armed robber has been caught after a bank was held up in a remote archipelago near the North Pole, police have said. The heist was a first for

A British drugs kingpin has been jailed over a plot to smuggle 1.3 tonnes of cocaine with a street value of 240 million euro (£216m) into France. Robert Dawes was

One person is dead and another injured following a shooting in central Vienna. A manhunt is now under way in the Austrian capital. Police tweeted that “extensive” manhunt operations were

A Royal Navy warship has seized and destroyed drugs worth more than £75m in just one two-day period while patrolling the notorious smuggling route, the ‘Hash Highway’ in the Gulf.