When Lara Yunaska walked down the aisle at Mar-a-Lago to marry Eric Trump, it was the wedding officiant who summed it up best. “You are not just gaining a family,” said Jared Kushner to his new sister-in-law. “You are getting six million Twitter followers.” Fast forward seven years, and Ms Trump, now 38, is weighing…

The family of a Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli forces has urged the international community to help secure the release of his body held for eight months by Israel, as a new investigation has found that he posed no immediate threat to security forces when he was killed and was offered no medical aid….

On Tuesday, spokesperson Alexander Artemyev said the human rights organisation had altered its stance after a review of historical speeches that “advocated violence and discrimination”. The NGO would continue to campaign to free the opposition leader, he said, given that he had been persecuted for “political views”. The move is not entirely without precedent, with…

The world’s first Covax Facility shipment has arrived safely in Ghana, providing the West African nation with 600,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The minister of information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, said the arrival meant the country’s immunisation campaign could begin on 2 March, allowing it to start the process of safeguarding 30 million Ghanaians at…

Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of British newspaper baron Robert Maxwell and his French wife Elisabeth, was born in affluent Maisons-Laffitte in northern France on Christmas Day 1961, the youngest of nine children. Just two days later, her teenage brother Michael was involved in a car accident that would keep him in a prolonged coma until his…