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About 40 people were killed and 115 injured in a blaze in at a New Year's Eve Party at an upmarket Swiss ski resort, with the disaster likened to scenes from a horror film.

A fierce blaze that broke out in a Swiss ski resort during New Year's Eve celebrations has killed about 40 people and injured 115, police said on Thursday afternoon.

A man who witnessed a bar fire in Switzerland has told Sky News he saw patrons walking over people as they tried to escape the packed venue.

The largest protests in Iran in three years reached a deadly climax overnight into Thursday, with several people killed, Iranian media and a rights group have reported.

New York's new mayor Zohran Mamdani has vowed to run the city "expansively and audaciously" after his historic inauguration.

"The air is absolutely poison, in the last two years we've not had even one single good a day in spite of the monsoon rain," says Bhavreen Kandhari, an activist spearheading a public movement on clean air.

Anthony Joshua has been discharged from hospital days after a car crash in Nigeria that killed two of his close friends.

Finnish police have seized a cargo vessel suspected of damaging an undersea cable.

All the world's countries have now welcomed in 2026.

Iranian protesters attempted to storm a local government building on Wednesday, state media reported, as demonstrations over the cost of living reached their fourth day.