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A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton has become the most expensive dinosaur fossil sold at auction after an unidentified buyer paid more than $50m (£37.3m) for it.

Two more British nationals are confirmed dead after wildfires in southern Spain.

The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached 2,011, with 754 deaths, according to government data.

Spain and Gibraltar are celebrating the removal of a border checkpoint following a historic treaty between the EU and the UK.

A British man jailed in Iran along with his wife has been handed an additional two-year prison sentence, according to the couple’s family. 

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A woman whose husband was partially sucked out of the window during a Ryanair flight has described how half of his body was left sticking out of the plane for “up to two minutes”.

Police in Australia have marked the 25th anniversary of the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio by releasing previously unseen photographs from their investigation.

A fifth British national has been identified as a victim of a wildfire in southern Spain in which killed more than a dozen people.