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Vladimir Putin has hailed Donald Trump as "courageous" for his response to an assassination attempt as he congratulated the next US president.Mr Trump won a decisive victory in the 2024 election - comfortably clearing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency and clinching five battleground states. Throughout his campaign, Mr Trump said he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine in just 24 hours - without explaining how he would do so.Speaking in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday, the Russian leader also noted the president-elect's "desire to restore relations," but added he has "no idea" what to expect from Mr Trump's second term in office.While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already congratulated the Republican on his win, he raised concern...

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of One Direction star Liam Payne in Argentina, the public prosecutor's office in the country has said.The 31-year-old pop star died after he fell from a third-floor balcony at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires on 16 October. The three were arrested and charged with "abandonment of a person followed by death, supply and facilitation of narcotics," said a statement by the office of prosecutor Andres Esteban Madrea. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 0:35 23 Oct: Police raid hotel where sing...

Some of the victims buried in Pompeii following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have been wrongly identified, new evidence suggests.Researchers used DNA testing on 14 casts of victims found in the ruins of the Roman city destroyed in 79 AD. Using DNA taken from fragmented skeletal remains, they concluded an adult holding a child and wearing a golden bracelet, long thought to have been a mother, was actually a man unrelated to the child.It was one of several surprises in what had become known as "the house of the golden bracelet".Nearby were the bodies of another adult and child thought to be the rest of their nuclear family. But DNA evidence showed all four were male and not related to one another. Image: Pompeii, a buried and ruined Roman city...