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World News Highlights: Netanyahu invites Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar for Israeli Independence Day

How widely used is the death penalty in the US?

The death penalty is back in the news after Christa Pike survived two lethal injection attempts in Tennessee - but how widely used is it in the US?

Trump wants lower fuel prices. G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of oil: Why it matters

Flydubai FZ1073 security questions: How did an Omani pilot get onto a Tel Aviv-bound flight?

Flydubai FZ1073 cockpit attack: How a 6-year-old girl’s washroom trip triggered alarm

UK diesel prices top £2 a litre for first time, RAC says

The rise in global oil prices has been pushing up the pump prices of petrol and diesel in the UK.

Interactive: Flydubai cockpit incident, Smit Machchhar, Hamam al-Hammami and the story so far

‘I was not going to let others die’: Flydubai pilot Smit Machchhar’s desperate push to open cockpit door

Nobel Peace Prize 2026: Trump wants it, Carney eyeing it, but could International Space Station win?

US pressures Europe to release diesel reserves as Trump threatens export ban

President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US ahead of the November elections.

Medina power station for Prophet’s Mosque hit in Houthi attack, Saudi strikes Yemen

Coroner warns of risk of future deaths at mental health unit where patient was killed

Hugo Flint-Cahan, 34, was fatally attacked by Rolando Torres-Pena, 22, at a mental health trust in east London.