A 29-year-old former British paratrooper set off from Chile in 1998 aiming to walk back to the UK. Four continents and thousands of kilometres later, he’s on the final stretch.

A 29-year-old former British paratrooper set off from Chile in 1998 aiming to walk back to the UK. Four continents and thousands of kilometres later, he’s on the final stretch.

Karl Bushby has walked 31,000 miles, crossing some of the world’s harshest landscapes. He plans to reach his mother’s house in England next week.

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A train accident near Toledo, Spain, which killed at least 68 people, was one of the deadliest in the country’s history.

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The Venezuelan opposition leader returned home from exile to a country firmly under American control. How are her relations with Washington?

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