It comes just over a week after a two-day total internet shutdown across the country ended....
Wednesday's attack comes days after a similar strike caused mass power cuts....
An architect and three workers were among those who died at the building which was being renovated....
Sébastien Lecornu has been given until Wednesday evening to come up with a plan for the "stability of the country"....
Hamas said on Wednesday it had exchanged a list of the names of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under a swap deal and that it was optimistic about talks in Egypt on US Presid...
The winners of the prestigious science prize was announced by the Nobel committee in Sweden....
Troops from Texas have been sent on a controversial mission to support President Trump's immigration crackdown....
Activists on board nine vessels carrying food and medical supplies for Palestinians will be deported, Israel says....
A group of vessels attempting to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters on Wednesday, the coalition behind the convoy said, the second such interceptio...
They arrived in Jordan yesterday after a few days in Israeli detention...
A large group of people threw rocks at Daniel Noboa's car, which bears "signs of bullet damage", an official says....
The European Commission proposed 50% tariffs — twice the current rate — on all steel imports above a quota that will be cut by roughly 45%....
Spot gold smashed through $4 000 an ounce for the first time, and analysts see no end to the precious metal’s rally....
The Israeli foreign ministry confirmed it had intercepted boats entering waters it says fall under its blockade of the war-torn Palestinian territory....
A flight crew had raised the alarm after they spotted Kageyama looking at the images on the plane....
With the shutdown about to enter its second week, Trump says some furloughed workers "don't deserve to be taken care of"....
Britain's once-towering Conservatives are languishing in opinion polls and risk being swallowed up by the hard-right Reform UK party....
Dr Fred Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him....
Locals told the BBC the destruction from the motorised paraglider made it hard to identify victims....
Analysts point to delays in the reporting of economic data due to the US government shutdown as one reason for the rise....
The message comes a week after the 79-year-old musician postponed gigs due to health issues....
The arrival of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner comes as a second day of talks ended without tangible results, a Palestinian official tells the BBC....
The flotilla's vessels and passengers were safe, had been transferred to an Israeli port...
Nerves were raw in a hearing that covered much ground, and saw Trump's attorney general go on the attack....
"The horror of that dark day will be forever seared in the memories of us all," UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said....
The Nobel Prizes were established through the will of Alfred Nobel...
Doris Grünwald and Jessica Baumgartner, born in Graz in 1990, were accidentally given to the parents of the other family....
After eight years in office, Emmanuel Macron's position as president is coming under increasing pressure as France's political crisis escalates....
Results from the first parliamentary elections since the fall of Bashar al-Assad show only 13% of seats were won by female and minority candidates....
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says "we fear for the life" of Iris Stalzer, a newly-elected mayor of the western town of Herdecke....
Lula da Silva and Donald Trump held a call on Monday to discuss tariffs....
City police official says a "very huge" earthquake was felt....
The United Nations said on Tuesday it was deeply concerned about the number of civilians fleeing violence in northern Mozambique, with many driven to the point of no return....
The Canadian government blocked Marineland's attempt to export the animals to a park in China....
Pro-Palestinian protests were planned in several countries on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel that led to the war in Gaza, despite warnings by some politicians tha...
Emmanuel Macron's first prime minister on Tuesday urged the cornered French head of state to resign in a shock call that compounded an escalating political crisis....
Briton John Clarke, Frenchman Michel Devoret and American John Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for work on quantum physics in action, the Nobel jury said....
Authorities are investigating the source of the tainted drinks, which have affected more than 200 people....
Officials say no breakthrough is expected on trade, but the Canadian prime minister is under domestic pressure to secure some form of relief....
The alleged forgery was done to comply with Fifa's 'grandfather rule' for foreign-born players....
The United Nations chief on Tuesday demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held in Gaza, and an end to hostilities in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, Israel and the re...
Édouard Philippe's intervention comes a day after the French president's latest PM resigned just days into the role....
There is a chance of a deal that will end the killing and destruction in Gaza and return the Israeli hostages, living and dead, to their families....
If Macron appointed a new prime minister, the person would be the eighth premier of his rule and the third this year alone -- not good for France's reputation....
Japan's incoming new prime minister Sanae Takaichi has approached an opposition party with a view to expanding the governing coalition to give it a working majority in parliament....
Judge Astrit Kalaja was killed while two others were injured during a hearing at Tirana's Court of Appeal....
Israel marks the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023 attack on Tuesday, as Hamas and Israeli negotiators hold indirect talks to end the two-year war in Gaza under a US-proposed peace plan....
France's outgoing Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu was on Tuesday due to start a last-ditch effort to rally cross-party support for a cabinet lineup to pull his country out of political deadlock....
Three people were in critical condition after a medical helicopter crashed onto a California highway, with local authorities saying emergency crews had closed some traffic lanes....
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows....
Local police say they have found and killed the bear believed to be responsible for the rare fatal attack....
China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan's first female prime minister....
The talks are expected to be among the most consequential since the start of the war two years ago....
Two years on from Hamas' attack on 7 October, Herut Nimrodi says she is clinging to hope that her son Tamir is "still hanging on"....
This was the fifth time that Republicans and Democrats brought their funding measures up for a vote....
A lawyer attacks India's Chief Justice BR Gavai, apparently over remarks he made about Hinduism....
Brazil's government said the two "reminisced about the good chemistry" they had at the UN in New York....
The Democratic-led US state of Illinois filed suit on Monday to block US President Donald Trump’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago....
A man on trial opened fire in a courtroom in the Albanian capital Tirana on Monday, killing the judge and injuring two others, police said....
The skydiver fell after becoming separated from his student and safety equipment....
A former NYT opinion editor-turned media start-up owner Bari Weiss has been named as the next boss of CBS News after the TV channel was bought by Paramount...
Ukraine found tens of thousands of foreign parts, some Western-made, in Russian drones and missiles fired on Ukraine over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday....
Tarique Rahman, tipped to be the next PM, tells BBC Bangla he is planning to return to fight landmark elections....
The Israeli embassy in South Africa has announced that South Africans detained by Israeli military forces while transporting humanitarian aid to Gaza will be deported on Tuesday....
Israel said it deported on Monday 171 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg....
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex -trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein....
Sebastien Lecornu who is the fifth prime minister in two years was in the job for 27 days....
Negotiators from Israel and Hamas are heading to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to start indirect talks about ending the Israel-Gaza war....
Japan's biggest brewer has restarted six factories that produce its popular Super Dry beer....
American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance, creat...
Officials say 25 weather balloons carrying thousands of illicit cigarettes from Belarus were detected....
Iran does not plan to immediately resume nuclear talks with European nations after they reimposed sanctions, the foreign ministry said on Monday....
Erin Patterson was jailed for a minimum of 33 years for murdering three people with a toxic mushroom meal....
HMNZS Manawanui started leaking oil into the ocean after it sunk in Samoan waters a year ago....
US president Donald Trump’s embrace of digital assets has reversed years of US government scepticism towards the crypto industry under his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, with the US House of Repres...
The shock move comes 26 days after his appointment following the collapse of the previous government of François Bayrou....
The collapse of the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school is the country's deadliest disaster this year....
US President praised "positive discussions with Hamas" and allies around the world....
Hamas officials were in Egypt on Monday ahead of talks with Israel that the US hopes will lead to a halt in fighting and the freeing of hostages in Gaza....
Up to 10,000 Papua New Guineas will be allowed to serve with the Australian military under the pact....
The move appears aimed at circumventing a court order that barred deploying troops in Portland....
Gisèle Pelicot's dominant stance was seen as a moment in France's MeToo movement but the enthusiasm appears to be wilting....
The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia last week has climbed to at least 50...
Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet had been guided to safety by rescuers, Chinese state media reported on Sunday, as unusually heavy snow and r...
The Senate will meet again Monday to try to pass a bill to reopen the government but the chances of it passing appear slim....
Four people were killed in the October 3 strike on vessel which was accused of carrying narcotics....
Rescue teams have been deployed to clear the snow on the world's tallest mountain, Chinese state media reports....
Strikes have continued in Gaza as mediators prepare to head to Egypt for talks starting on Monday....
Hamas on Sunday called for a swift start to a hostage-prisoner exchange with Israel, as negotiators from the two warring sides were set to meet in Egypt for crucial talks aimed at ending the nearly tw...
JD Vance said last month Washington was considering Ukraine's request to obtain long-range Tomahawks...
Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as the weather chills....
The detainees were arrested by the Israeli navy on board the Global Sumud Flotilla on Wednesday....
Ukraine's neighbour Poland and Nato scrambled fighter jets to ensure the safety of Polish airspace....
International activists who arrived in Istanbul after being deported from Israel following the military’s interception of their Gaza-bound flotilla said on Saturday they had been subjected to violence...
The controversial move follows protests over ramped-up immigration enforcement and the shooting of a woman during unrest on Saturday....
FBI leadership is reportedly in discussions to stage a showy arrest of the bureau's former director next week....
Three provinces will not be included "for security reasons", amid concerns over how representative the polls will be....
Hamas will disarm "the easy way or the hard way", Israel's PM says after the group gave its response to a peace plan....
Police used pepper spray to disperse demonstrators amid growing turmoil in the Caucasus country....