United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has sought to distance himself from an unofficial briefing to the media by unnamed “allies” that he intends to fight off a leadership contest, which, they sa...
A Chinese national dubbed “one of the most prolific sex offenders of all time” by British police was sentenced to life in prison on Friday....
Under the deal, Donald Trump's 39% tariffs will be cut and Switzerland will invest $200bn (£150bn) in the US....
China hopes to address its labour shortages with AI and robotics solutions....
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate links between the late alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Democratic president Bill Clint...
The 2015 dam collapse killed 19 people, polluted a river and destroyed hundreds of homes....
Trump said on social media he was seeking investigations into Clinton, Larry Summers as well as JP Morgan and other major banks....
Russian officials said on Friday that debris from a Ukrainian drone hit a nuclear power plant a day earlier, temporarily causing the station to reduce its output....
Japan will suffer a “crushing defeat” by the Chinese military if it tries to use force to intervene over Taiwan, China’s defence ministry said on Friday, ramping up the rhetoric over Japanese Prime Mi...
Investigators fear the murder of a second brother of Amine Kessaci is meant as a warning to him....
The annual instalment of the massive series faces new challenges from competitor Battlefield 6....
Several others have have been injured in the crash in the Swedish capital, police say....
It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher....
What if SA’s Olympic bid wasn’t about sports, but was the key to unlocking a decade of economic transformation? asks Johan Fourie....
Almost every district in Kyiv came under “massive” attack, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, with a death reported hours after AFP journalists heard explosions in the city centre....
Mr Abdel Fattah was Egypt's best known political prisoner until seven weeks ago, when he was released from jail....
The Australian regulator has recalled several sand products used by children for play, but says the risk from them is "low"....
Google on Friday announced changes to its advertising services to avert the risk of a breakup, two months after Brussels hit the US giant with a massive fine....
Johnson Wen rushed at the actress in Singapore, during the Asia-Pacific premiere of Wicked: For Good....
October marked the 10th month of decreased Canadian travel to the US, with many staying away over political and trade tensions....
Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi had suggested Tokyo could take military action if Beijing attacked Taiwan....
No one was injured in the blast but police are looking for two suspects who they say placed the explosive....
Lawyers for the US president have threatened to sue the corporation for $1bn (£759m)....
Sheikh Hasina tells the BBC her trial in absentia is destined to deliver a "pre-ordained guilty verdict"....
The Palestine Embassy in South Africa has advised its people from Gaza to be vigilant....
Tanzanian politicians are in shock over the massacre of hundreds of young protesters during its recent election, insiders told AFP, but are too afraid to speak out as a tiny cabal of hardliners around...
At least 26 others are reported injured in drone and missile strikes in six areas of the capital....
The Russian-Ukraine war began in February 2014 following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity....
Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, has apologised to Donald Trump for editing a speech to make it look like he had advocated violence, seeking to ward off the United States president’s threat of l...
United States Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has formally announced the launch of a US military operation to target so-called “narco-terrorists” as Washington’s large-scale build-up of troops, warship...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro joined thousands of young supporters in Caracas on Thursday...
More than 120 people were killed in the raid which targeted the Comando Vermelho criminal gang....
Berlin has agreed a new military service plan to boost troop numbers to 260,000 by 2035....
Confirmation of the remains would mean that only three deceased hostages' bodies now remain in Gaza....
Following Iraq’s parliamentary election this week, the complex and often lengthy task of choosing the country’s next leader is set to begin....
Internet freedom declined in both the United States and Germany as Western democracies joined authoritarian states in imposing growing restrictions online, an annual survey by Freedom House said....
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding at OR Tambo International Airport where more than 150 Palestinian refugees reportedly seeking asylum in South Africa have been denied entry and left stranded on an a...
Elon Musk’s Starlink, whose internet services have been utilised by Myanmar scam centres, has seen its use across the country plummet since the end of September, according to estimates from regional i...
The US government is set to return to life on Thursday after the longest shutdown in US history, which snarled air traffic, cut food assistance to low-income Americans, and forced more than 1 million...
The United States had evidence in 2024 that Israeli officials discussed how their soldiers sent Palestinians into tunnels in Gaza that the Israelis believed were potentially lined with explosives, two...
The EU on Thursday announced a probe into energy drink maker Red Bull over suspicions the Austrian company abused its dominant market position....
Some 28kg of ketamine have been found washed up on the island's beaches in the past two months....
Trump emerges from the shutdown having made little in the way of substantive concessions to Democrats in Congress....
South Korea's national college entry exam is notoriously hard - but blind students face unique challenges....
The company says it plans to open more physical shops and expand the business around the world....
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2017....
A US jury in the first civil trial over a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash determined that the aircraft manufacturing giant owes $28.45 million to the family of a newly-wed Indian victim....
The former prince's reaction when he heard about a newspaper inquiry was among more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein's estate, including some mentioning Trump....
Tuberculosis remains the world's leading infectious killer, claiming an estimated 1.23 million lives last year, the UN health organisation said...
Millions of dollars of birth-control supplies bought by the United States and held in Belgium en route to poorer countries can no longer be used, Belgian authorities have said....
US President Donald Trump signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history....
In emails released by Democrats, Epstein says Trump "knew about the girls". The White House says they are an attempt to "smear" the president....
India's government says it unequivocally condemns the "dastardly and cowardly act" that killed eight people....
The bus was carrying 60 passengers when it collided with a truck and careered off the road in the Arequipa region....
Pennies today cost nearly four cents each to make - more than twice the cost of a decade ago....
President Herzog's office says he holds Trump "in the highest regard", but that anyone seeking a pardon has to submit a formal request....
The Ukrainian president has called for the justice and energy ministers to be removed from their posts....
The bus struck a van and veered off the road into a ravine...
The White House accused Democrats on Wednesday of pushing a “fake narrative” after they released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein suggested that President Donald Trump was aware of the financier’s sexu...
Emails reveal Donald Trump allegedly knew more about Epstein's sex abuse than publicly acknowledged....
Senegal’s president and the political party he belongs to have issued conflicting statements over the leadership of the ruling coalition, a clear sign of dissension among top leaders amid drawn-out ta...
The air strike comes after the US accused the Colombian president of allowing the drugs trade to expand....
Italians and others are alleged to have paid large sums to fire at Bosnians risking their lives in besieged Sarajevo....
Israel’s police and military said that security forces arrested several Israeli settlers after violent clashes near the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem, during which Palestinians were injured and...
The theft of Roman-era artefacts was discovered after staff noticed a door had been broken from the inside....
A Gabon court sentenced the former first lady and son of the oil-rich country’s deposed leader Ali Bongo to 20 years in prison following a two-day graft trial....
Republicans sound confident the bill will pass, despite their narrow majority. Democrats vow to oppose it....
Hyein and Haerin will return to Ador following a legal dispute, the agency says, as fans worry about the K-pop group's future....
Several Palestinians were also injured when settlers launched arson attacks targeting an industrial area, a Bedouin village, and farmland east of Tulkarm....
The Kennedy heir, who will be challenging for a New York seat, is best known for his outspoken political commentary online....
Mike Burgess says state-linked hackers have tried to access water, transport and energy networks....
Scientists say the crocodiles hunted like leopards by climbing trees and killing prey below....
She Zhijiang is one of the biggest figures linked to South East Asia's cyberscam operations....
The US president indicates he will go ahead with a lawsuit against the BBC over how his speech was presented by Panorama....
The cause of the crash remains unknown, and officials say search and rescue efforts have begun....
A video has gone viral showing Russian soldiers openly driving into the city on civilian cars and motorbikes....
One of the most notable absences at this week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference reflects the leadership of one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the world: the United States....
Delhi's air quality has deteriorated to "severe" levels, which can seriously impact those with existing diseases....
French President Emmanuel Macron warned that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would be a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction....
The US Navy's Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier is considered the world's largest warship....
Mediators are trying to negotiate the exit of scores of fighters believed to hiding in a southern area of Gaza under Israeli control....
A declared military crackdown has left some destruction at a major scam compound in Myanmar, satellite images analysed by AFP show, but most buildings are still standing in pictures taken up to Sunday...
A strident political foe of Trump, Newsom has for months been teasing a run for the White House....
President Donald Trump claimed victory on Tuesday over rival Democrats on the longest-ever US government shutdown, in a speech at an annual ceremony honouring America’s military veterans....
A suicide bomber has set off a blast outside a court building in Islamabad that has killed at least 12 people, according to Pakistan’s interior minister....
The U.S. military dwarfs Venezuela's, which is debilitated by a lack of training....
It used to be a political match made in MAGA heaven. But US President Donald Trump fell out with hard-right lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying she had “lost her way” after a series of critical co...
The requirement means the penalty would likely be used only against Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis....
The Queen and the Princess of Wales have joined services to mark Armistice Day in the UK....
The spending plan may have passed the Senate, but it's not yet a done deal in the House....
Istanbul's chief prosecutor accuses Ekrem Imamoglu and 400 others of running a corruption network....
Iraqis began voting for a new parliament at a pivotal time for the country and the wider region, in an election that both Iran and the United States will be closely watching....
The native bee was found near a rare wildflower, prompting scientists to call for the area to be protected....
The South Korean actor allegedly hugged a woman and kissed her on the cheek against her will....
The world must "defeat" climate denialism and fake news, Brazil's President Lula da Silva tells UN climate summit....
Mohsin Naqvi says the bomber tried to gain entry to a court complex, but was unable to get inside....
The plan follows up on a manifesto promise to work towards the phasing out the practice....
Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord upon returning to office in January....
Here are some of the announcements made so far at the gathering hosted by Brazil in the Amazon city of Belem...
BBC journalists describe what they saw after an explosion took place in India's capital Delhi on Monday....