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Temporary closure comes after Finnish intelligence suggested Russia was helping asylum seekers reach the border Finland has announced it is temporarily closing its entire border with Russia after weeks of tensions between the countries over asylum seekers that Helsinki has labelled a hybrid operation by Moscow.

It's impossible to know for sure what would have happened if PC Angela Cornes had paid more attention to Banaz Mahmod on the night Mahmod was discovered collapsed and bleeding in a caf doorway. Perhaps if Cornes had listened to Mahmod's claim that her father had just tried to kill her instead of writing her

My father, Peter Thomson, who has died aged 88, was an architect with an eye for big ideas and beauty. In the 1970s he formed Peter Thomson Associates, working on a substantial programme of residential projects in France that were based around factory-finished terrace houses built in the UK.

Image was among the possessions the Posner family fled Kiel with and now returns to the city as part of an exhibition When she used her compact camera to capture the view from her window in the German city of Kiel one December afternoon in 1931, Rosi Posner was doing more than just taking a

As extreme heat recedes, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Algeria reflect on lives lost, environmental damage and costs to livelihoods After more than a week of fierce wildfires, once again southern Europe is counting the heavy costs to livelihoods and its environment, as the extreme heat recedes and temperatures drop by up to 10C.