The 31-year-old kite surfer was killed upon impact, and three other were lightly injured during the incident. One other person was reported as lost at sea but was later found

EMMANUEL MACRON has failed to win an outright majority but has beaten left-wing rivals and Marine Le Pen, projections show.

MARINE LE PEN is expected to make major gains, according to the latest French parliamentary election projections.

Former WWE referee Tim White ended his career in 2004, after injuring his shoulder during a match at Wrestlemania 20 between main event stars Chris Jericho and HHH

A LEAKED recording includes Chinese officials vowing to "crush" Taiwan in a war, sources claim.

The hungry shark circled around the fishermen's boat before devouring on the 5ft tuna that was left hanging on the boat, it's estimated that the shark could be 16 ft long

THE FINAL round of the French Parliamentary elections takes place today as the decider of whether President-elect Emmanual Macron will govern the country with a free hand. But opinion polls suggest a chance he might fall slightly short.

Dramatic footage shows Yanis Teriz keeping his cool despite his parachute failing to open as he plummets towards the ground – and he manages to deploy it with just moments to spare

JOE BIDEN'S capacity to lead was called into question by a GB News guest, who suggested that the US President's fall from his bike yesterday was another sign he "is not in full health".

Animal rights group NoToDogMeat have been working hard to track down the trucks sending dozens of dogs across China to the city of Yulin and stopping them before the canines are killed for food

THE FATAL FLAW in Europe's plan to aid Ukraine has been laid bare, amid warnings the West might not have the manufacturing capacity to send the promised support.

Separated from their families, the toddlers were then groomed for underage marriage at the FLDS cult ranch by paedophile leader Warrens Jeffs who matched girls with 'old leches'

KIller whale Corky is thought to be the longest held in captivity, having been taken from the ocean in 1969 and now living in a concrete tank smaller than a swimming pool at SeaWorld in San Diego

A LARGE group of Russian troops have surrendered to Ukrainian forces, according to footage shared from the fierce battlefront of Luhansk.

BRITISH troops must prepare to "fight in Europe once again" and to "defeat Russia", according to the new Chief of the General Staff of the British Army.

VLADIMIR PUTIN is making one last desperate effort to gain full control of a major besieged Ukrainian city as his Russian troops reach "critical mass".

Vadym Denysenko, adviser to interior minister, gave warning as Amnesty accused Russia of war crimes in country’s second largest city

Allies must provide Ukraine with major humanitarian aid and weaponry, a Ukrainian MP has said.

Appearing on Sky News, Ivanna Klympush-Tsintzadze said the situation for Ukrainians is not improving. “The situation is not getting easier on us and that’s why it’s extremely important that there’s a continuous stream of military aid,” she said.

Russia is trying to make Kharkiv a frontline city,” Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the interior minister, told Ukraine’s national television.

The death of Roman Ratushnyi, 24, a prominent environmental campaigner who died while fighting the Russians, has come to symbolise the war’s heavy toll on society

There are funerals every day in Kyiv, but this one felt particularly poignant. Hundreds of friends and fellow activists, clad in Ukrainian flags, gathered on Saturday to pay tribute to Roman Ratushnyi, a prominent political and environmental campaigner who was recently killed fighting near Ukraine’s second-biggest city, Kharkiv.

“All our brightest, bravest guys are dying. The war’s toll on society is immense,” said activist Ivana Sanina, 23, on Thursday during an earlier remembrance ceremony for Ratushnyi.

The dictator insists his threat isn’t actually a threat even as one of his ships enters Danish waters and a loyal TV host says Russia is ready to up the ante in the brutal Ukraine war

As interest grows with TV shows, books and now a major a new exhibition in London, the idea of repairing beloved items is about more than cash

Early in 2020 Claire Catterall, senior curator at London’s Somerset House, began exploring the potential of an exhibition about mending. Inspired by the proliferation of social media hashtags #visiblemending and #mendingmatters, and pop-up repair cafes, she observed a new generation of thrifty fashionistas wanting to preserve clothing using traditional methods and contemporary creativity.

“There was growing interest in the craft of repair,” recalls Catterall. “Artists such as Celia Pym and Bridget Harvey spearheaded an artistic approach to the process, and mending felt relevant to all the conversations about sustainability.”

RECORD hot temperatures have seen wildfires break out across Spain and near the Portuguese border, prompting the evacuation of eleven villages evacuated in one region.

Josep Maria García got the shock of his life when he found his image with an article that went on to clock up two billion hits

Soon after the pandemic plunged Spain into confinement, Josep Maria García received a panicked call from his brother-in-law.

“He told me not to worry, but that I should google the phrase ‘the worst person you know’,” said García. “I put it in and there I was, everywhere. I scrolled down and it was my face, my face, my face. I thought what is going on?”

The British actor on getting texts from Winona Ryder, researching his character Eddie Munson through the medium of thrash metal and the show’s ‘monster’ final episode

“This year is my year. I can feel it.” This line was said by the character Eddie Munson in the first episode of season four of Netflix’s monster-hit show Stranger Things, but it could easily have been uttered by actor Joseph Quinn.

It takes talent to join a much-loved TV cast in their fourth season and become a fan favourite. This series of Stranger Things has set Netflix records by hitting No 1 in 83 countries and is more watched than Bridgerton. But as the charismatic but vulnerable Munson, 28-year-old Quinn has made a splash. He only joined Instagram in May and already has more than 1.6 million followers.

There is no evidence asylum seekers are ‘absconding’ but Boris Johnson insists pilot must go ahead

The Home Office has been accused of “victim blaming” asylum seekers after launching a scheme to electronically tag refugees arriving in the UK.

Ministers faced calls to abandon the “farce of a policy” after suggestions that those who recently avoided being sent to Rwanda after a legal challenge could be among the first to be tagged under the programme.

Jens Stoltenberg says the costs of war are high but the price of letting Moscow win is even greater.

The libel claim brought by the Brexit campaigner took its toll. But the judgment offered personal relief and hope for public interest journalism

Last week, after a nearly six-month wait, I learned that I’d won the libel claim brought against me by Arron Banks, the main funder of the Leave.EU campaign. It has been a long, brutal haul and the stress over the three years since it began has been extreme. I’m not so much relieved as completely numb.

I had been braced to lose and I knew exactly what would happen if I had. The headlines I would face, the accusation that I was – what my detractors have always claimed – a “conspiracist”, the social media shitstorm that would ensue. I had no doubt about how devastating it would be because every step of this litigation has felt as if it was aimed at trying to crush me. In large part, it’s succeeded.

WATCH! Ukraine's army targets the Russian enemy with heavy artillery weapons gifted to them by France.

The official combat painter died in 1942 when his plane went down. Now his inspiring life story is the subject of a major documentary

The letter was dated 30 August 1942 and posted from Iceland. Eric Ravilious, one of the official war artists, wrote to his wife, Tirzah (“Tush”), of “an unbelievable lunch of caviar, paté and cheese”. He then described the island’s lunar-like craters before ending: “Would you like a pair of gloves, sealskin with fur on the back? Draw around your hand on writing paper so I can get the size. Goodbye darling. Hope you feel well again.”

The letter is read out by his one surviving child, Anne Ullmann, in Eric Ravilious: Drawn To War, which goes on general release – a rarity for an art film – on 1 July. His “Goodbye darling” was tragically apposite as, three days later, Ravilious’s plane went down over the sea. The letter reached his wife after his death.

The socialite’s defense team seek a reduced sentence by depicting a woman made vulnerable to Epstein’s by a domineering father

When Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial neared its end, the British socialite’s lawyers had their work cut out for them. For weeks, prosecutors had painted Maxwell as a member of the elite who carried out unspeakable acts to maintain her charmed life with the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

They presented abundant evidence that Maxwell lured girls, some just 14 years old, into Epstein’s orbit for him to sexually abuse – while carrying herself as an untouchable “lady of the house”. In the prosecution’s telling, Maxwell didn’t just do bad things: she was gleefully committed to doing them.

We've looked into five cases where fathers took their own children's life - their deranged excuses range from believing their kids are monsters to trying to save them from the apocalypse

Seven wounded after motorists protest petrol shortage as government declares two-week school shutdown to conserve fuel

Sri Lanka’s military have opened fire to quell rioting at a fuel station, officials say, as unprecedented queues for petrol and diesel were seen across the bankrupt country.

Troops fired in Visuvamadu, 365km (228 miles) north of Colombo on Saturday night as their guard point was pelted with stones, army spokesperson Nilantha Premaratne said.

EXCLUSIVE: OnlyFans star Alice Irving had to chuck 99% of her belongings after a huge cockroach infestation in her old apartment, but moved out to a 15-bedroom mega mansion

The sprawling saga of prominent local family took an important step this week – what next for Alex Murdaugh?

It is more than a year since the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh, the wife and son of Alex Murdaugh, the jailed South Carolina lawyer making headlines via a complex embezzlement case as hard to navigate as the state’s low country swamp.

The story has captured the imagination of much of America as a true crime murder mystery that appears to mix violent shootings and other deaths with financial shenanigans – all served up with a hefty dose of southern Gothic drama.

Kathleen Buhle’s memoir in answer to a similar confessional from the president’s son makes uncomfortable reading

Hunter Biden was a nasty husband. On top of his penchant for addiction and excess, verbal abuse littered his marriage to Kathleen Buhle. In her memoir, If We Break, Buhle recounts how the 46th president’s surviving son regularly taunted her for supposed intellectual shortcomings.

Amid booze-soaked benders and drug-fueled rages, Biden called his wife “goddam dumb”, the “dumbest person” he had met. “Get away from me, you idiot,” he purportedly thundered.

President Emmanuel Macron fights a crunch parliamentary election against a green-left alliance.

Labor government urged to do more to stop Australian WikiLeaks co-founder’s extradition to US from UK

The Albanese government insists it will not conduct “diplomacy by megaphone” as it faces calls to do more to prevent the extradition of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the US.

On Saturday, the British home secretary, Priti Patel, approved the extradition of Assange to the US, where he is charged with breaching the US Espionage Act and faces up to 175 years in jail if convicted. He has 14 days to appeal the decision.

Beterbiev stops Smith in two rounds to unify three belts at 175lbsChechen-born star keeps knockout streak alive with early winESPN reports Beterbiev will fight England’s Anthony Yarde next

World light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev knocked out American rival Joe Smith Jr inside two rounds on Saturday to add the WBO title to his WBC and IBF belts.

The unbeaten 37-year-old Canada-based Russian scored three knockdowns and had Smith in deep trouble with just under a minute remaining in round two before the fight was stopped.

Move comes as unionization efforts gain momentum across country, including at Amazon and Starbucks

Apple workers in Maryland have voted by a nearly two-to-one margin to join a union, becoming the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionize in the United States.

More than 100 workers in Towson near Baltimore voted 65-33 on Saturday to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), the union said.