It was just after midnight. Iryna Stetsenko had finished doing her nails for her wedding, opened the balcony door and was battling her nerves to get to sleep.

In a nearby apartment packed with guests, her fiancé Serhiy Lobanov was asleep on a mattress in the kitchen.

Then a "rumble" disturbed the quiet, says Iryna. "It was as if a lot of planes were flying overhead,

In 2024, Kirsty, a woman in her 40s living in North Yorkshire, met a man on a dating website who said he was an English businessman working in Turkey.

He shared a picture that he claimed was of himself showing his chiselled abs on the beach and claimed to be financially secure. He even used a banking website to persuade her he had $600,000 (£443,600) in savings.

But after two weeks of

When Seen Aromi's memoir documenting the joys of singlehood hit the shelves in early 2024, it became an instant bestseller.

Women young and old, single or married, those with children and without seemed to relish So What if I Love My Single Life!, drawing "second-hand satisfaction" from Seen's confident retorts to unsolicited advice, or finding

Iran says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz again to commercial vessels and that any ship that approaches it will be targeted.

The closure came as reports emerged of vessels in or near the strait, including a tanker, were targeted by Tehran on Saturday.

The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) blamed a continuing US blockade for its decision, which comes a day after Iran's foreign minister announced

Construction of the underground and above ground portions of US President Donald Trump's White House ballroom will be allowed to continue, an appeals court has ruled.

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted an administrative stay after the Trump administration appealed against US District Judge Richard Leon's decision to halt above-ground construction on Thursday.

Construction is now expected to continue until the next hearing, which is due to take place on

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said there was "no diplomatic crisis" with Spain after years of frosty relations over the conquest of the Central American nation.

"There is no diplomatic crisis. There never has been. What is very important is that we recognise the strength of our country's indigenous peoples," she said as she arrived at a summit of left-leaning leaders in Barcelona on Saturday.

Spain'

Baby food brand HiPP has recalled its entire range of jarred purées sold in Spar supermarkets in Austria over fears they may have been contaminated.

The company's carrot and potato jars may have been tampered with, it said in a statement, making consuming them potentially "life-threatening".

"It cannot be ruled out that a hazardous substance was introduced... due to external influence," it said.

Even though

Pope Leo has said he was not seeking to debate Donald Trump when he criticised "tyrants" for spending billions on wars in a speech earlier this week.

The pontiff said the remarks, delivered days after a high-profile spat with the US president, had been written a fortnight earlier – "well before the president ever commented on myself".

"And yet as it happens, it was looked at as if

At least five people have been killed and others injured after a person opened fire in Kyiv, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

The incident happened in the capital's southern Holosiivskyi district, Kyiv's police force said. The man reportedly began shooting at people on the street and then took others hostage in a nearby supermarket.

Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said the attacker shot at police from within the supermarket before being killed by officers.

The exact number of victims remains unclear