Former footballer Joey Barton pushed his wife to the floor before kicking her in the head during a drunken row at their family home, a court has heard.

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 15 prisoners yesterday in what state media called a humanitarian gesture, two days before an election in which he is set to further extend his 31-year rule.

As the Rolling Stones lyric goes, the answer to &who killed the Kennedys& was &after all…you and me&. In Don DeLillo&s novel Libra, John F Kennedy&s assassination emerged from a CIA plot. And in the Ultimate Marvel world, the US president&s killer was, perhaps least credibly of all, Captain America&s son Red Skull.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has doubled down on President Donald Trump&s claim the war in Ukraine could have been prevented had he been in the White House in 2022.