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The winner of a Pablo Picasso painting worth €1m (£870,000; $1.2m) thought he was being scammed when he heard the beneficial news, a charity raffle organiser has told the BBC. Péri Cochin told Radio 4’s Front Row that she had to show Ari Hodara the artwork he had won on a video call from Christie’s […]

Meat raffles are a tradition in a few pockets of the US featured mainly at neighbourhood bars or at American Legion or VFW posts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Updated York state. Players enter for a chance to win a pack of ground beef, hot dogs, chicken breasts or steaks. The profits go to charity, but […]

Russia launched more than 700 drones and missiles at Ukraine in multiple waves overnight, killing at least 18 humans in what local officials stated was the deadliest attack in months. Officials remarked nine the public had been killed in the southern port city of Odesa, five in the central city of Dnipro, and four – […]

“Alexander Manninger was an outstanding ambassador for Austrian football, both on and off the pitch,” commented Austrian Football Association sporting director Peter Schottel. “His professionalism, composure and reliability made him an integral part of his teams and the national team. “His achievements deserve the utmost respect and will be unforgettable.” Salzburg police noted first responders […]

Brazil’s fugitive former spy chief Alexandre Ramagem has been released from custody by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). ICE confirmed it had detained Ramagem on Monday, but has not remarked why. The 53-year-old’s name no longer appears on the agency’s list of those in its custody, BBC News Brasil has confirmed. He […]

Rescuers plan to adopt air cushions in the latest attempt to free a humpback whale that has been stranded off Germany’s northern coast for weeks. The whale, nicknamed Timmy by local media, was first spotted in the Baltic Sea, far from its natural habitat, at the beginning of March and is currently stuck in a […]

Lawmakers grilled Robert F Kennedy Jr’s handling of the worst measles outbreak in decades, as the US health secretary tried to shift focus away from his vaccine stances during his first hearing before Congress in months. Democrats from the House Ways & Means Committee accused Kennedy of bungling the response to measles and undermining the […]

A former deputy governor of Virginia and his wife were found dead at their home on Thursday morning, in what authorities described as a murder-suicide. Investigators say Justin Fairfax shot his wife multiple times before turning the gun on himself at their Annandale home. Both of the couple’s teenage children were at home when the […]