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Japan's ultra conservative prime minister is set to seize more power after an exit poll suggested she has secured a big majority in the lower house following a snap election.

Lindsey Vonn has suffered a devastating crash in the women's downhill skiing final at the Winter Olympics.

Italian police have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who threw firecrackers, smoke bombs and bottles at them near a Winter Olympics venue.

A 'storm train' of consecutive winds and rains battering Spain and Portugal has already forced 11,000 people to flee their homes. 

The US president and Israel's prime minister will meet on Wednesday in Washington to discuss negotiations with Iran, according to Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

A drone attack in Sudan has killed 24 people, including eight children, according to a doctors' group.

Cristiano Ronaldo has missed a second straight game with Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr as he continues his strike.

For a largely sedate and elegant spectacle, the Winter Olympics opening ceremony still became an outlet for rage in Milan.

Japan is holding a snap election on Sunday, in the first electoral test for the country's first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, since she became leader.

Japanese politics is politer and more understated than most.