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A fast-moving wildfire has forced more than 20,000 people to evacuate parts of British Columbia’s Okanagan region.

The Hess women’s cycling team was owned by a rich benefactor with a background in high finance – so how did they end up failing to pay riders and staff?

A rare turtle is being flown home to the Caribbean Sea after being found washed up in Wales.

World number one Aryna Sabalenka suffers a surprise defeat at the Canadian Open, while Britain’s Cameron Norrie also bows out in the last 16 in Toronto.

New settlement tender in West Bank deepens Israeli efforts to sever Palestinian ties to Jerusalem, officials warn.

Rebeca Grynspan seen as continuity candidate with tacit support from current secretary general, António Guterres A Costa Rican diplomat and former vice-president whose parents were refugees from the Holocaust has become the

Nikita and Olga Belov say they will be persecuted on return to Moscow but are yet to convince Finnish authorities A Russian family faces deportation from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum

From Mayo to Birmingham City, sports lore is rife with powerful hexes. There’s nothing mystical about the dread and self-doubt they can induce As the new season of Ted Lasso started, I

Never before has a big name rejected Istanbul for Trabzon, but former Liverpool striker was offered more than riches It began with a text sent during the World Cup. Ertugrul Dogan, the

The former Watford player talks about his off-field pursuits, lessons from the World Cup and unfinished business When Maduka Okoye visited Paris fashion week for the Jean Paul Gaultier show, taking his