Portrait looted by Nazis found in home of Dutch SS leader's descendants

Arthur Brand A painting believed to be Toon Kelder's 'Portrait of a Young Girl' shows a girl in a white dress with black sleeves holding what appears to be a bouquet of red flowers. She has brown hair and blue eyes and is sitting. Arthur Brand
'Portrait of a Young Girl' is believed to have been sold during an auction in 1940

A painting stolen from a Jewish art collector by the Nazis during World War Two has been found in the home of descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator, an art detective has said.

Portrait of a Young Girl, by Dutch artist Toon Kelder, is believed to have hung for decades in the home of Hendrik Seyffardt's family, Arthur Brand said.

It had belonged to Jewish

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Police find body believed to be of fugitive Australian shooter

NSW Police Force NSW Police Force Headshot of suspect Julian Ingram, who is seen with a beard and wearing an old grey T-shirt. NSW Police Force
Julian Ingram allegedly shot dead three people in Lake Cargelligo in January

A body found in New South Wales is thought to be that of a man wanted over the murder of three people in a small Australian town in January.

Julian Ingram was on bail for domestic violence offences at the time of the killings of his pregnant ex-partner Sophie Quinn, her friend and her aunt in Lake Cargelligo, about 450km (280mi) west of Sydney. All were shot.


Philippine VP Sara Duterte impeached for a second time

Getty Images Sara Duterte Getty Images
Duterte was impeached on the same grounds in 2025

The Philippine House of Representatives has voted to impeach Vice-President Sara Duterte for a second time, threatening her plan to run for president in 2028.

Monday's vote moves the impeachment process to the Senate for trial, where if convicted, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte will be disqualified from holding public office.

The 47-year-old is leading early surveys to replace her ally-turned-

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BBC tours England and Argentina's World Cup training grounds

Will Grant tested out one of the pitches where England captain Harry Kane and his team will train in Kansas City.

US national on repatriation flight tests positive for hantavirus

Reuters US passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are instructed by authorities after disembarking the vessel in Tenerife, Spain. Photo: 10 May 2026 Reuters
US passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship are instructed by authorities after disembarking the vessel in Tenerife, Spain

An American and a French national who have returned to their home countries having left a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus have tested positive, authorities say.

The US health department said a second American national on the repatriation flight had also shown mild symptoms, adding that both passengers had travelled back in "biocontainment units out of an abundance of caution".

French Health Minister Sté


Modi urges Indians to work from home and limit foreign travel as Iran war continues

Reuters India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen joining his hands in a greeting at a recent event in Kolkata in West Bengal on May 9, 2026. REUTERS/Sahiba Chawdhary Reuters
Modi also urged people to use public ​transport and carpool to conserve fuel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to Indians to revive working from home, buy less gold and limit foreign travel to deal with a surge in global energy ​prices because of the continuing crisis in the Middle East.

Modi said the austerity measures, reminiscent of the Covid era, would reduce India's fuel use and help save foreign exchange.

India imports 90% of its oil and its crude bill has seen a multi-billion dollar


Trump and Xi are set to meet. Where do US-China tariffs stand?

VGC via Getty Images US President Donald Trump exchanges a handshake with Chinese President Xi Jinping while posing for pictures in front of their countries' national flags VGC via Getty Images
Trump and Xi when they met in South Korea last year

Beijing has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping.

The visit, from the 13 - 15 May, will be the first to China by a US president in nearly a decade - and comes at a pivotal moment for ties between the world's two largest economies.

Executives from some of America's biggest companies - including Boeing, Citigroup and Qualcomm - are expected to travel with

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Dua Lipa sues Samsung for $15m over use of her image on TV boxes

Reuters Dua Lipa poses with her dark brown hair straightened and out, while wearing a yellow, black and red Chanel jacket and a gold spiky earring. Reuters
Dua Lipa has filed a complaint against Samsung for allegedly using her image on its TV boxes without consent

Pop star Dua Lipa has filed a $15m (£11m) lawsuit against Samsung, alleging it used her image on packaging for its televisions without permission.

Lipa alleges that Samsung prominently used a photograph of her face without consent on various television models sold across the US, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

Samsung'

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Thailand's divisive ex-PM is out of jail, but is the Thaksin era over?

Watch: Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra released from prison

For a man who spent most of the past 20 years in exile, and the past eight months in jail, the figure of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra still looms large over Thailand.

His release from prison, at the age of 76 and wearing an electronic ankle bracelet, after serving part of a one-year sentence for corruption and abuses of power during his terms as prime minister from 2001 to 2006, was headline news

Reuters Supporters of Thaksin Shinawatra, holding a banner with the former PM's face and a pink garland over it, wait for his release on parole after serving eight months of his one-year sentence at Klong Prem Central Prison in Bangkok

Oil prices jump after Trump dismisses Iran proposal to end war

EPA/Shutterstock An employee pumps fuel into a customer's motorbike at a petrol station in Hanoi, Vietnam EPA/Shutterstock

Oil prices rose in Monday morning trade in Asia after President Donald Trump said Iran's response to US proposals to end the war was "totally unacceptable".

Tehran , which has served as a mediator between the two sides, calling for an immediate end to the conflict and guarantees of no further US-Israeli attacks on Iran, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency.

International oil benchmark Brent rose by 3.8% to $105.20 (£7