Witnesses in al-Mawasi told the BBC that people were burned alive as tents were engulfed in flames....
The cable car had been traversing the valley when a cable to one of the cabins snapped, local media report....
The French president announced the commission on the 200th anniversary of France ordering Haiti to pay a debt for its freedom....
Travellers are warned of disruptions as workers stage industrial action over pay and conditions....
US President Donald Trump’s administration will ask a US federal appeals court to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press....
Members of the largest organisation representing British Jews have said they can no longer "turn a blind eye" to the war in Gaza, adding "Israel's soul is being ripped out"....
A mysterious group has accused Justice Minister Gérard Darmanin of declaring "war" on prisoners....
Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony after being accused of taking bribes....
Health authorities are urging people to get vaccinated before travelling to risk areas for Easter....
The organisers of the failed 2017 Fyre Festival are reportedly looking for a new location for the reboot....
Donald Trump called Harvard a "joke" and said it should lose its government research contracts after the prestigious university refused demands that it accept outside political supervision....
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system....
Inflamed by endless claims of liberal "deep state" operatives targeting their president for prosecution, Donald Trump's supporters dreamed of the day when he would return to office and take his reveng...
Trump also threatened on Tuesday to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status....
Russian air defence systems destroyed 71 of Ukraine’s drones over six regions overnight....
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security"....
Israeli attacks on Gaza will end if Hamas releases all remaining captives, US President Donald Trump's top hostage envoy said in an interview with Al Jazeera....
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday denied in court that his company bought rival services Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralise them...
The talks form the highest level of transatlantic engagement about the war since February....
The US Department of Homeland Security said Harvard University will lose its ability to enroll foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration to share information on some v...
Frontrunner Mark Carney was tested in Wednesday's French-language debate, the first of two match-ups before the 28 April election....
The White House doubles down on claims Kilmar Ábrego García was in a gang, which his lawyer denies....
She wll have to walk a tightrope between representing the interests of the EU and remaining in the US president's good books....
Police suspect the range was used by a weapons trafficking ring to test assault rifles and other arms....
Engineer Cristina Balan raised a safety concern about a design flaw which could affect the cars' braking in 2014....
She was one of the Philippines' biggest film stars with a career that spanned seven decades....
Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life....
Community members in the small town of Chelsea passed the books one-by-one to the bookstore's new location a block away....
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress was found "unresponsive" at her New York City apartment in February....
Chinese online marketplace Temu and fast-fashion retailer Shein will raise prices on their products next week as President Trump's crackdown on low-value imports and sweeping tariffs increase expenses...
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk on Wednesday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev....
The US government is accused of "wilful disregard" of a ruling blocking the deportation of 200 individuals to El Salvador....
Mohsen Mahdawi, a former protest leader, was arrested after showing up to the appointment in Vermont....
Defence Minister Israel Katz also says Israel will continue its humanitarian aid blockade to pressure Hamas to release hostages....
The suit comes after a public spat between the state's governor and Donald Trump over transgender women competing in sports....
The Kremlin said that Putin's talks with the Qatari Emir in Moscow would focus on "topical issues"...
The Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, both died of natural causes about a week apart....
Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked....
The Geneva-based institution says American tariffs will send international trade into reverse....
US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday that the Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Maine, in an escalation of President Donald Trump's conflict with the state for refusing to ban...
Federal housing officials accused Letitia James, who won a real estate case against Trump in 2023, of mortgage fraud....
Millions of people have tuned in to watch moose on the move in northern Sweden over the past six years....
Attacks in Nigeria's troubled north-central state of Plateau have killed more than more than 100 people in just under two weeks....
Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the legal definition of a "woman" is based on a person's sex at birth, a landmark decision with far-reaching implications for the bitter debate over tra...
Britain and France on Wednesday pledged to maintain pressure on criminal gangs in Haiti via sanctions....
A Russian drone attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa overnight injured three people, sparked fires and damaged homes and civilian infrastructure, officials of the southern Ukrainian region said....
France recalls its ambassador to Algeria and orders 12 Algerian diplomats to leave as tensions continue to rise....
The agreement is designed to ensure more cooperation between nations in the event of another pandemic....
Israel said it would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, where a relentless military offensive has turned the Palestinian territory into a "mass grave," a medical charity repo...
The EU has published a list of seven countries it considers "safe", in a bid to speed up migrant returns by making it harder for citizens of those nations to claim asylum in the bloc....
The suspect, 40, is accused of setting fire to the homes of some of his alleged victims to cover his tracks....
Tiny cash-based Pacific nation gets electronic banking for the first time....
India's financial crimes agency has accused the Gandhis of illegally acquiring properties of a newspaper....
The shift comes as Beijing refuses to back down in an escalating trade war with Washington....
Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians on Sunday will celebrate Easter, the most important holiday in the Christian calendar....
Revoking a green card is a legal process that starts when the U.S. government determines that an individual has violated immigration laws....
Known globally for tulips, the Dutch are world leaders in the international flower sector, which is coming under increasing scrutiny for pesticides sprayed on the fields....
The ex-president uses the speech to criticise the Trump administration's cuts to the welfare agency....
His imprisonment will be effective immediately, even if he appeals the conviction....
A Peruvian court on Tuesday sentenced ex-president Ollanta Humala and his wife to 15 years in prison for graft linked to a globe-spanning corruption scandal....
The Trump administration has rebuked US universities over the handling of pro-Palestinian groups....
Hamas said that after an Israeli strike it had "lost contact" with the captors of an Israeli-American hostage in Gaza, whose release reportedly takes centre stage in Israel's latest proposal for a ren...
Argentine football legend Diego Maradona's daughter told a court Tuesday his death "would have been avoided" if doctors caring for him after surgery had done their jobs....
Warning of "no tolerance for gamesmanship", the judge said she would determine whether to hold the government in contempt of court....
South Korean police on Wednesday raided the office of former president Yoon Suk Yeol and his security detail, as part of a spiralling criminal probe into the impeached leader....
Six people were removed after congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene took the stage....
Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the pedestrian crossings....
A climbing pair shatter the record for completing the daunting north faces of a famed trio of Swiss mountains....
The chip manufacturing giant, which has been at the heart of the AI boom, will require licences to export its H20 AI chip to China....
The group says it lost communication after an Israeli strike on where Edan Alexander was being held....
Anna Alexandrova denied posting anti-war messages, insisting the case was motivated by a land squabble....
Stock is piling up in warehouses as exporters grapple with new levies that total up to 145%, reports the BBC's China correspondent Laura Bicker....
A court ruled that Humala, who governed Peru from 2011 to 2016, took illegal campaign contributions....
President Donald Trump stepped up his extraordinary threats to send Americans to foreign jails, saying on Tuesday he would love to deport "homegrown" US citizens who commit violent crimes to a notorio...
The Oscar-winning actor's wife Betsy Arakawa died from a respiratory illness linked to infected rodents....
More than 230 people died when the roof of the club collapsed during a concert last Tuesday....
The plan also gives no commitment to end the war in return for hostages, a Palestinian official says....
It took Ed Roberts over a year to find a senior scientist to work at his cancer research laboratory in Scotland, a delay he blames on high UK visa costs that made it harder to attract international wo...
US President Donald Trump's special envoy said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was open to a "permanent peace" deal with Ukraine....
Approximately 50 percent of the vehicles sold in the US are imported....
The Spanish architect was a devout Catholic and is best known for Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica....
Somalia on Tuesday launched voter registration in Mogadishu for the first time in over 50 years, a step towards universal suffrage ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026....
Nearly a month after Israel resumed its aerial and ground assaults across Gaza, the Palestinian militant group says it had received a new ceasefire proposal from Israel...
China orders its airlines to halt deliveries of jets from US aviation giant Boeing, suspends purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from American firms, as trade tensions escalate....
Vehicles were set on fire in prison car parks outside several prisons across the country....
Spain is the world's top producer of olive oil, but the fertile agricultural land long used by olive producers is now in high demand from power firms looking to install solar farms....
The sudden dismantling of USAID is unravelling health care systems across Africa that were built from a complicated web of national health ministries, the private sector, nonprofits and foreign aid....
Any nuclear deal between the United States and Iran will hinge on verification of Tehran's enrichment and weaponisation capabilities, US President Donald Trump's special envoy said....
Mediators Egypt and Qatar have presented a new Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire to Hamas, Egyptian state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV said....
US has not formed part of the G20 Development Working Group 2025 meeting held in South Africa....
Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-...
The US president says Ukraine's leader shares blame for the war with Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden....
The sandstorm blanketed southern regions in an eerie, orange haze and shut down airports....
The green card holder was held "in direct retaliation" for his role in campus protests, says his lawyer....
Competing voices from the White House fuelled uncertainty before the president announced a sweeping pause, experts say....
"The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights," the university says....
The Ohio State Buckeyes team was invited to meet President Donald Trump to celebrate the team's title-winning season....
The couple is suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species such as white tigers....
The UN cites "credible sources" for the estimated death toll of recent attacks on refugee camps in Darfur....
Nayib Bukele has won praise from Donald Trump for imprisoning some "very bad people" deported from the US....