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Katia TemkinThe star has told fans she may not tour again for a “long, long” timeAriana Grande made an emotional exit on Tuesday night, as she wrapped up her Eternal Sunshine tour, and prepared to step back from public life.The singer was occasionally close to tears – most notably during One Last Time, the song that took on extra meaning as an anthem for survivors of the 2017 Manchester terror attack.”London, I’m going to need you to help me on this one,” she said, kneeling down to be near the audience throughout the performance.Last month, Grande announced a break from…

EPA/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump and interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez have both heralded the deal as a successFrom the moment elite US troops swooped into Nicolás Maduro’s compound in Caracas to forcibly remove him from power in January, President Donald Trump made clear that securing control over Venezuela’s oil resources was a key goal of his administration.The United States would “run” Venezuela, he said at the time, and manage the sale of Venezuelan oil for the foreseeable future.The signing of a huge US-Venezuela oil deal in Caracas on Wednesday marked the fruition of that plan. The agreement grants a…

Watch: Astronauts set out on rare all-female spacewalkFor the sixth time in history, a team of two women completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.53 mins agoUS & Canada

Watch: Judge orders deadlocked Clancy jurors to keep deliberatingJurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy are deadlocked after four days of deliberations, but a judge has asked them to keep trying.Clancy, a resident of Massachusetts, is facing murder charges for killing her three children at their family home in 2023.Her lawyer does not dispute that the 36-year-old former nurse killed the children, but argues that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and was unable to distinguish right from wrong.After discussing the case for several more hours on Tuesday, jurors were sent home for the day and asked…

Europa Press via Getty ImageSome 5,000 migrants who entered Ceuta from Morocco are estimated to still be in the Spanish exclaveSpanish prosecutors say 23 sexual assaults, including nine against children, have been recorded in Ceuta since the mass influx of migrants into the Spanish exclave at the end of July.That number meant there was almost one case every day, Ceuta’s chief prosecutor Silvia Rojas said.She told El País newspaper migrant girls were “particularly vulnerable because of their irregular status in the territory”.At least 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July and although most have returned,…

ReutersVessels were visible across the Strait of Hormuz from Oman this weekAmerican forces resumed strikes against Iran on Tuesday, US Central Command has said in a statement.It accused the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of “recent attempted attacks” against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and “American service members deployed to the region”.Shortly afterwards Donald Trump warned that Iran would be hit again at “a much harder and higher level” if it retaliated.The IRGC said the US would regret the strikes and Iranian news agencies reported that retaliatory missile and drone attacks on “US bases and interests in the…

AFP via Getty ImagesUS Vice-President JD Vance has waded into Michigan’s bitter senate race, calling Democratic newcomer Abdul El-Sayed “evil” as he backs Trump ally Mike Rogers in the closely-fought contest.At an event to support Rogers, Vance also warned El-Sayed to “keep my wife’s name the hell out of your mouth”, after the candidate appeared to suggest that Vance’s late grandfather would not accept Second Lady Usha Vance, who is Hindu. El-Sayed hit back at Vance later on Monday, accusing the Trump administration of pushing “evil” policies and of “starting wars abroad when there’s peace”.Recent polling suggests he holds a…

Pemba Dundu Tamang tells the BBC how he discovered some of his colleagues were missing after he escaped a flooded tunnelNepalese hydropower workers have told the BBC about the catastrophic moment water from the Trishuli River crashed into their tunnel as the region was inundated by deadly flash floods last week.It started with a sudden, strong gust of air, says Pemba Dundu Tamang, whose team of about 30 was constructing the tunnel’s concrete lining.The blast of wind sent plywood flying through the air and dislodged heavy machinery. Just outside, houses had already been swept away.”I ran towards the tunnel entrance,”…

ReutersNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani thanked NYPD officers who stepped in and “prevented a horrific attack from becoming even worse”A 32-year-old woman has been killed and another victim is in hospital following a double stabbing in Times Square, New York late on Monday afternoon.The suspect, a woman wielding two knives, was shot by police. All three people were taken to hospital, where the female victim and the suspect were later pronounced dead, Mayor Zohran Mamdani told a news conference. The deceased victim was later identified as Erin Piacenti, a Bank of America employee. The male victim remains in a…

Watch: What it was like inside court for Tupac Shakur’s murder trial verdictThe conviction of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in Las Vegas has brought an end to one of the world’s most famous unsolved murder cases.He was found guilty of the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, who died when the black BMW he was travelling in was sprayed with bullets in a drive-by shooting in 1996.”This is huge. It was a tough case. It’s a cold case,” former prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the BBC. “We’re talking about the greatest rapper of all time, an icon, and not a single arrest…