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Associated Press photographers have shot thousands of amazing photos during the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The photographers assigned to the Games combed through hordes of photos they shot and were asked to select their favorite. Here’s a look at those magical moments.

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IN FOCUS: European countries including the UK are pushing through tougher measures to tackle immigration, but campaigners warn this just moves the problem elsewhere, Alex Croft reports

More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s famed Galápagos archipelago, where they disappeared more than a century ago.

Forest produced one of the upsets of the season when they demolished Liverpool at Anfield in November but were denied by a late strike in Vitor Pereira’s first game in charge

Alan Cumming will host this evening’s ceremony

This year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games are located in Italy, a historically Catholic nation

Boris Johnson's call for non-combat troops from the UK and Europe to be deployed immediately to Ukraine is "reckless and irresponsible," Geordie Greig told Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.

It came as Trump announced plans to deploy a hospital ship to the island