Leipzig: Two killed and many injured after car driven into crowd

Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a bus carrying Polish pilgrims veered off a Hungarian motorway and into a ditch. Police said the bus overturned after coming off the M3 motorway, which connects Hungary’s capital Budapest with the north-eastern city of Nyíregyháza, at around 01:00 local time on Sunday (23:00 GMT on…

US President Donald Trump and his officials are “actively” discussing a potential offer to buy the Danish territory of Greenland, the White House has confirmed. It is “something that’s currently being actively discussed by the president and his national security team”, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Wednesday. Both Greenland and Denmark have…

The BBC’s Hugh Schofield at the scene of ”brazen” Louvre jewel theft Security protocols “failed” in preventing a major jewellery heist at the Louvre museum in Paris, leaving the country with a “terrible image”, France’s justice minister has said. Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world’s most-visited museum in broad daylight on Sunday, stealing…

Thousands of grief-stricken mourners attend Raila Odinga’s funeral. One of Kenya’s most revered politicians, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has received an emotional send-off at his state funeral in the capital, Nairobi. Tens of thousands of people – many carrying branches as a traditional symbol of grief and wearing T-shirts printed with his image –…

Hatton says the price paid reflects the time and resources that went into uncovering the specimen. The bones were excavated over three summers, when it was warm enough for the ground to have thawed, from 2021 to 2023. But it took a further three years in the lab to piece the T. rex back together….