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A tearful Kevin Spacey has told a court that he was “shocked”, “frightened” and “confused” by accusations that he made an unwanted sexual advance on a teenager in the 1980s. Anthony Rapp says he was 14 when an intoxicated Spacey, then 26, climbed on top of him at a party in his Manhattan apartment in

A 10-year-old boy has been mauled by a black bear while playing in his grandparents’ garden in the United States. The animal then attempted to drag the young child away before being shot by police officers, officials in the state of Connecticut said. The boy was injured but survived the ordeal. He was taken to

A former US spy has pleaded guilty to causing the death of Harry Dunn by careless driving, following a three-year campaign for justice by the teenager’s family. Anne Sacoolas, 45, was appearing at the Old Bailey in London. She entered the plea via video-link from Washington. Harry’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, held their

Elon Musk has completed his $44bn (£38bn) takeover of Twitter after months of toing and froing over the deal. His first move was to fire the social media company’s top leadership, which he accused of misleading him over the number of spam accounts on the platform. Musk sacked Twitter’s chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial

A firefighter who was nine months pregnant and involved in a car accident has been hailed a “true public servant” after she put herself aside and stepped in to help others in the smash. Megan Warfield, a firefighter in the US state of Maryland, was just a week away from her due date when she

A man suspected of killing six people in a string of murders in California has been arrested by police while “out hunting” for his next victim. Wesley Brownlee was driving in the city of Stockton, where five of the murders took place, and was armed with a handgun, when he was stopped by police officers

The US president has branded Liz Truss’s original economic plan as a “mistake” amid continued criticism of the prime minister’s fiscal policies. Speaking to reporters after stopping at an ice cream parlour in Oregon, Joe Biden said he “wasn’t the only one who thought it was a mistake” and that the poor outcome of the

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of killing five people in North Carolina and is in a critical condition in hospital, US police have said. The boy, who has not been named, is alleged to have fatally shot two people in the state’s capital city of Raleigh before opening fire on a walking

Donald Trump has responded to a congressional committee that wants to hear his evidence about the assault on the US Capitol building, but he hasn’t said whether he will appear. In a memo to members of the January 6 committee, he didn’t address their subpoena calling on him to give evidence before them. Rather, he

He calls it the “Unselect Committee” and his appearance before it is uncertain, to say the least. Certainly, Donald Trump showed no inclination in the wake of his subpoena. “The committee is a total BUST that has only served to further divide our country,” he opined on his Truth Social media platform. From its start,

The congressional panel investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol last year has voted to subpoena Donald Trump. It was a unanimous vote and the former president will now be compelled to give evidence to the committee about the events of 6 January 2021 which saw five people killed and more than 140 police

A jury in Florida has recommended a sentence of life in prison for school gunman Nikolas Cruz over the 2018 Parkland massacre which left 17 people dead. Cruz pleaded guilty last year to premeditated murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The expelled student was 18 years old when he used a semi-automatic assault rifle

A police officer on duty during the January 6 assault on the US Capitol building has described it as a “medieval battle scene” in which he was beaten and tasered before suffering a heart attack. Michael Fanone told Sky News he thought he would die after becoming detached from his colleagues and being “struck from

A former San Antonio police officer who shot a teenager eating a hamburger in his car in a McDonald’s car park has been arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated assault. James Brennand, 25, was charged on Tuesday over the 2 October shooting of Erik Cantu, according to a police statement. The 17-year-old, who

Dame Angela Lansbury, who starred in the hit TV drama Murder, She Wrote, has died at the age of 96. Her family said the actress died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles early on Tuesday, just five days shy of her birthday. The London-born star won five Tony Awards for her Broadway

Prosecutors have dropped charges against Adnan Syed – the subject of the hit podcast Serial – three weeks after his murder conviction was overturned. It follows a further round of DNA testing, a lawyer with knowledge of proceedings said. Mr Syed, now 41, was sentenced to life in prison in 2000 for the alleged murder

Three lucky fishermen have been rescued from shark-infested waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The men had been stranded in the water after their 24-foot fishing boat sank at around 10am on Saturday morning, leaving them without any means of communication. US Coast Guard Heartland said that two of the men were fending off sharks

A two-year-old boy has been safely reunited with his family after their car was stolen with him inside. He was taken in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as his parents were putting another child on a bus – and it was school bus drivers who helped find the boy. Dave Skinner was on his route last Tuesday

Anna “Delvey” Sorokin, the con artist who swindled Manhattan’s elite by posing as a German heiress, says she got “exactly what I wanted” after her release from jail. In her first interview since getting out, she told the New York Times she is “really happy” to be out of jail and added that “nothing was

England have beaten the world champions USA in a friendly match at Wembley. The Lionesses, who won the European Championship in July, went ahead through Lauren Hemp’s 10th-minute finish before Sophia Smith equalised in the 28th minute after Georgia Stanway lost possession near her own box. England then benefited from two VAR checks – one