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Rat wins the world’s highest bravery award for sniffing out deadly landmines

Magawa has made safe 141,000 square metres of heavily mined ground in Cambodia and is the first rat to win a PDSA award for valour and the first non-canine to win the Gold Medal

Four stabbed including two journalists outside old Charlie Hebdo office in Paris

The knife rampage, which has left two victims in an ‘extremely bad way’, took place at the same time as a trial over the original Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, France, in 2015

North Korea makes rare apology after killing South Korean man and ‘burning body’

Kim Jong-un said he was ‘sorry’ for the killing of the man, who appeared to be defecting to North Korea, after he went missing around six miles south of the sea border between the two Koreas

Hundreds of whales wash ashore in Australia’s ‘largest ever mass stranding’

WARNING – UPSETTING IMAGES: Hundreds of long-finned pilot whales have mysteriously washed up on the shores near Macquarie Harbour in western Tasmania since Monday

House spotted with Christmas decorations up three months before December 25

After the awful year we’ve all had, there’s no surprise that some people are looking forward for Christmas but one excited household in Dublin have got their tinsel and tree out already

How Arati Saha fought back from agonising defeat to swim the English Channel

Google Doodle is celebrating Arati Saha on September 24. In September 1959 she became the first Asian woman to swim the English Channel, putting behind a heartbreaking defeat weeks earlier

Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner loses bid for prison release

Lawyers for prime suspect Christian Brueckner had argued that protocols in the use of the European Arrest Warrant had been reached, but today judges threw his appeal out

Driver given parking ticket after leaving rude note demanding not to be fined

A driver who left a note in their car telling parking inspectors not to issue the vehicle with a ticket because they were a resident on the street returned to find they had been fined about £55

Killer’s horror collection of items included homemade sex toys and murder notes

Sick Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of killing Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27 in Claremont, a suburb of Perth, Australia

What other countries are doing as they prepare for second wave of coronavirus

Today EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said Europe is at a “decisive moment” and called on member states to take action at the first sign of rising new case numbers