Fung-wong was the 21st typhoon to hit the South East Asian nation this year....
It will need to be approved by the House and then signed into law by the president before the government can reopen....
Syria is joining the global coalition against the Islamic State group, a US official said hours after US President Donald Trump welcomed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa for historic White House...
UN urges unity as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil, marking 30 Years of climate talks...
An additional 2 300 US flights were cancelled as US President Donald Trump threatened to dock pay for air traffic controllers who called in sick during the government shutdown....
The explosion near the historic Red Fort on Monday evening killed at least eight people...
Ahmed al-Sharaa, once branded a terrorist by the US, became the first Syrian leader to visit the White House....
The Lebanese authorities seized Mr Gaddafi, now 49, in 2015 and held him without trial....
Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein says he managed to survive two years in a cramped Hamas tunnel in Gaza with no sunlight, little food and regular beatings, by clinging to his belief that he wa...
The country hasn't been able to curb an outbreak of more than 5,000 cases over the last year, while US cases are at a 33-year high....
The Senate compromise would set up a December vote on that measure....
US President Donald Trump has threatened the BBC with a billion-dollar lawsuit, US sources said, as the broadcaster apologised on Monday for editing a speech that gave the impression he urged “violent...
A spokesman for Trump's private legal team confirmed that a letter had been sent to the BBC but did not give details....
US forces have killed six more people in strikes on alleged drug-running boats, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, bringing the campaign’s total number of deaths - which critics describe a...
Serhiy Kuznetsov is wanted in Germany over the 2022 attack on Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines....
The contested Museum of West African Arts in Benin City has postponed its preview week after protesters stormed a museum event....
Nineteen more were injured in the blast, the cause of which is still unknown, authorities say....
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s request to be released from jail pending an appeal will be heard in a Paris court, weeks after he started a five-year sentence for conspiring to raise campaig...
The former French president was jailed in October for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi....
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Canada’s Niagara region this week to join the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting, his office said....
Prison guards found 27 bodies hours after another four inmates were killed in clashes between rival gangs....
At the Aegibong Observatory in Gimpo City visitors look across the border....
Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House for unprecedented talks just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist....
Mngomezulu has dismissed the reasons for Trump pulling out of the summit....
Airlines in the US have cancelled more than 3 200 flights amid a top transport official’s warning that air travel could “slow to a trickle” due to the ongoing government shutdown....
The measure signals a major breakthrough but the deal still needs to get over more hurdles in Congress....
One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview....
South Korean prosecutors indicted former president Yoon Suk Yeol on new charges of aiding the enemy, alleging that he ordered drone flights over North Korea to strengthen his effort to declare martial...
The US Senate has appeared to move towards a deal to end the government shutdown....
A manhunt is under way for the 68-year-old's killer and other suspects who were at the scene in Tema....
The government is pleading with Iranians to save water as reservoirs dry up and rainfall is at a record low....
Davie will stay on for the next few months while a replacement is found....
The mystery youth in the photo turns out to be Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old detective fan....
US lawmakers are working over the weekend as they seek a bipartisan deal to end the shutdown, which is now on day 40....
Emergency services have warned tourists and locals to keep away from coastal paths due to rough sea conditions....
More than a million people have been evacuated and at least two people killed as floodwaters rose in the Philippines on Sunday before Super Typhoon Fung-wong’s expected landfall on the east coast....
Formal identification has not yet taken place, but Benjamin Netanyahu said Hadar Goldin's body was due to be handed over....
Federal Aviation Administration instructed airlines to cut 4% of flights on Saturday at 40 airports....
Malaysian authorities are looking for more survivors after the vessel capsized near the resort of Langkawi....
Hamas armed wing said it will hand over a body of deceased Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin in Gaza....
Typhoon Fung Wong will bring sustained winds of 185 km/h (155mph) and torrential rain to several areas on Sunday....
Sir Richard Knighton, the UK military chief, says his Belgian counterpart asked for assistance this week in the form of UK personnel and equipment....
Their lives changed forever on November 13, 2015, when coordinated jihadist attacks killed 130 people in Paris....
Members of Iraq's security forces and its internally displaced population headed to the polls in early voting on Sunday ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections....
Spain’s exiled King Juan Carlos I reflects on his tumultuous life in newly published memoir titled “Reconciliation.”...
Storm alert signals have been hoisted across large parts of the Philippines....
France marks a decade next week since suffering its worst attack, with the only surviving attacker jailed for life and plans for a long-term memorial....
The Syrian leader will meet the US President at the White House on Monday for security talks....
Thousands more flights have been delayed or cancelled as the reduction of air travel capacity continues during the federal government shutdown....
The government wants to make it easier for employers to fire people and to limit some compassionate leave....
Police say they found Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, dead after she was shot on the front porch of a home in an Indianapolis suburb....
U.S. forces are taking part in overseeing aid transfers into the Gaza Strip together with Israel....
Ramaphosa says the global challenges cannot be resolved by nations acting alone....
Ramaphosa says his meeting with Pope Leo the 14th comes at a time when the world faces challenges....
On the surface, the Hungarian PM's trip was exactly what he wanted, but the full picture is more complex, writes the BBC's Nick Thorpe....
Overnight, 25 locations including Kyiv were hit, leaving many areas without electricity and heating....
Filipinos are bracing for the arrival of a new typhoon after one earlier this week left more than 200 people dead....
Ramaphosa presented the pope with two books, one of former President Nelson Mandela....
A tornado killed at least five people and injured more than 400 as it destroyed most of a town in southern Brazil, authorities said on Saturday....
Federal Aviation Administration instructed airlines to cut 4% of flights on Saturday at 40 airports....
Trump said no US official would attend the G20 leaders' summit in Johannesburg this month...
Authorities are investigating the blaze....
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad handed over the body of a deceased hostage as part of the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas....
UPS and Fedex have confirmed they are grounding the planes as the death toll in Louisville rises to 14....
The president's son-in-law wants to build a hotel on the ruins of the former Yugoslav Army headquarters....
The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia....
Trump says none of his country's officials will attend the G20 Leaders' Summit in South Africa...
Under U.S. law, gun exports typically need to be approved by the government....
If the body is identified as a hostage, five dead hostages will remain in Gaza and still need to be returned under a ceasefire deal....
Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar lead the nominees, while K-Pop breaks into the song of the year category....
The Nobel Prize winner felt ostracised by the scientific community over his comments on race and intelligence....
United States President Donald Trump has said he expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon” as part of his post-war plan for the enclave, which...
The Hellas Aphrodite crew have been freed from armed Somali pirates who seized it the previous day....
Pirates boarded the Hellas Aphrodite, a Malta-flagged vessel carrying gasoline, as it was headed from India to South Africa. The EU’s naval force said one of its vessels was near the incident and clos...
In an interview with Israeli TV, Rom Braslavski described how he was stripped naked and tied up by members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad....
Clashes broke out during one of three disruptions to the performance featuring conductor Lahav Shani....
After drone sightings cause Zaventem airport near Brussels to close temporarily, Belgium turns to its European allies for help....
President Ramaphosa is accompanied by DIRCO minister Ronald Lamola in Italy for a working visit....
North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said, around a week after US President Donald Trump approved South Korea’s plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine....
Republicans in the US Senate have voted down legislation that would have required US President Donald Trump to obtain congressional approval for any military attacks on Venezuela....
Authorities say the explosion occurred during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex....
The Fujian uses electromagnetic catapults that allow planes to strike from a greater distance....
Dozens of ministers and several heads of state and government, including those of Spain, Germany and Namibia, will meet in Belem....
The building the package was opened in was evacuated and those taken ill were found to be stable....
US lawmakers wrote to Britain’s disgraced former prince Andrew on Thursday requesting he sit for an interview about his friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....
Flashy AI, robotics and self-driving cars will be on show at the annual Web Summit in Lisbon from Monday....
More than 750 US flights scheduled for Friday have been preemptively canceled Thursday, according to tracking website FlightAware....
US President Donald Trump expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon”, following two years of war in the territory between Israel and Hamas....
From AI-powered super cities to designs that capture the 'soul and spirit' of the region, plans have already been draw up - but political obstacles remain....
Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines where the death toll rose to 188....
Critics had said he disrespected the commonwealth and the only Canadian team in Major League Baseball....
Staff helped the man, aged in his 50s, into a shower and he was treated for burns to his leg and fingers....
Lindsay Sandiford, who was sentenced to death in Indonesia in 2013, was freed on humanitarian grounds....
Washington has been urging the 15-member Security Council for months to ease Syria sanctions....
The declaration comes days after Peru severed diplomatic ties with Mexico - after it granted asylum to a former Peruvian prime minister....
Roblox said it is "disappointed" that it is being sued based on "misrepresentations and sensationalised claims"....
BBC Verify tracks how the RSF killed unarmed people in a massacre that humanitarian officials believe left 2,000 dead....
US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said the move sent a "strong political signal" that Syria was in a "new era"....
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets....
World leaders address COP30 climate summit in Belém and take aim at Trump record on climate change....