The judge rules detaining Abrego Garcia was "without lawful authority", and he will now at least temporarily be allowed to return to his Maryland home....
A seized tanker accused of smuggling sanctioned oil has long hidden its true location. BBC Verify examines how....
Rosen Zhelyazkov's dramatic move came ahead of a vote of no confidence in parliament, and 20 days before Bulgaria joins the euro....
The latest draft includes proposals on territorial concessions, Germany's chancellor says....
The 2025 "Person of the Year" issue features a cover story that explores AI....
A similar ban for girls under 10 was struck down by the Constitutional Court for specifically targeting Muslims....
Faiz Hameed led Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency during the tenure of now-jailed former PM Imran Khan....
The allegations against the suspect includes the illegal excavation of an ancient city in Crimea....
The pledge is in line with the directives of UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan....
The death toll in Indonesia's devastating floods closed in on the 1,000 mark Thursday as hundreds of thousands more continued to face shortages in relief efforts....
Trump administration is going to lead the ISF and appoint a two-star general as its commander...
Demand for exotic pets drove seizures of live animals to a record high in 2025, the Interpol police agency said Thursday as it announced a clampdown....
Back in 2018, President Donald Trump disputed having used the epithet "shithole" to describe some countries whose citizens emigrated to the United States....
A South Korean minister resigned on Thursday after being accused of receiving illegal funds from the Unification Church, a cult-like movement linked to widespread influence-peddling....
The junta has stepped up bombardments by air in an attempt to reclaim territory from ethnic armies....
Back in 2018, US President Donald Trump disputed having used the epithet “shithole” to describe some countries whose citizens emigrated to the United States....
Brothers Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra fled to Phuket, shortly after the incident last week....
A prominent shogi player says current rules force players to choose between their children and careers....
The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, where US President Donald Trump has been threatening military action for the last several months....
The levies are set to take effect on 1 January and will apply to goods like cars, clothing and appliances....
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia entered its fourth day on Thursday...
New figures show that 33 of the 113 deaths in custody between last July and this June were Indigenous...
The special visas will be awarded to those who can show they can make a "substantial benefit" to the US....
Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding since January, arrives in Oslo after a secretive journey....
Venezuela condemns the operation as an act of "international piracy", vowing never to be an "oil colony"....
The cloud computing giant's revenue miss renews questions about its financial health....
In a matter of days, three big entertainers in South Korea have made headlines in separate scandals....
PM Luís Montenegro appears to have been taken aback by the strength of feeling against his government's labour reforms....
Military aid for Ukraine plummeted in the second half of 2025 as falling European contributions failed to make up for the halt in US support, data from the Kiel Institute showed on Wednesday....
An Eyptian snack, Icelandic pool culture, Cuban music and Albanian lahuta music also get recognition....
"Intensive work" is continuing, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany say after a joint call with Donald Trump....
There were no immediate reports of damage after the quake....
Iceland joins Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in saying it will boycott the 2026 contest....
The judge has ordered control of the the troops, which were deployed in June, to be returned to California's governor....
A federal judge says materials from a 2019 investigation can be unsealed because of a new law passed by Congress last month....
This week, border clashes reignited, ending the Trump-backed ceasefire....
The F/A-18 Super Hornets appear on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city....
The friends were warned their clothing was "in conflict with Afghan and Islamic values", a Taliban spokesman told the BBC....
Funding for human rights and humanitarian aid is collapsing, while anti-rights groups remain well-funded, UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk warns...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is reportedly safe and on her way to Oslo....
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa....
The Tesla boss says instead of leading the Department of Government Efficiency, he could have been working for his companies....
The US's new National Security Strategy suggests Europe is facing "civilisational erasure"....
Seoul says it will "actively respond" to neighbouring countries' activities in its air defence zone....
Donald Trump, who brokered an earlier ceasefire, says he plans to "make a phone call" to stop the fighting....
He was speaking after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was "using war" to avoid elections....
The fire prompted calls from China's top leaders to eliminate safety hazards in the housing industry...
US President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency was only “a little bit successful”, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a podcast, adding that he would not lead the project again....
Military aid for Ukraine plummeted in the second half of 2025 as falling European contributions failed to make up for the halt in US support, data from the Kiel Institute showed Wednesday....
Lesotho’s parliament blocked the tabling of an explosive Public Accounts Committee report on a controversial lease for private healthcare at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital....
International trade in elephant ivory is illegal, but Japan hosts one of the world's largest remaining legal domestic markets for the product, which can only be bought and sold within its borders...
US and Indian trade negotiators begin two days of talks as they try to reach a deal amid geopolitical turbulence after Washington hit New Delhi with huge tariffs over its purchases of Russian oil....
Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes....
US President Donald Trump said he was planning to “make a phone call” about the renewed clashes between Thailand and Cambodia over their contested border, which have prompted evacuations....
Scuffles broke out during a vote linked to attempts to reduce the former president's jail term....
The incident in Australia comes after the man was jailed for nine days and deported from Singapore for public nuisance....
The president says he is focused on "making America affordable again", as cost of living becomes a campaign issue....
Sebastien Lecornu narrowly survived a crucial test on Tuesday as France's divided parliament voted in favour of a 2026 budget bill....
Prosecutors have released bodycam footage showing the initial interaction between officers and the suspected CEO killer....
In his ruling, Judge Paul Engelmayer cited a new law passed last month requiring the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein....
If he honours his pledge, he will no longer benefit from the sale of any Agrofert product, from frankfurters to fertiliser....
Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado is in hiding, and her current whereabouts are still unknown....
X is accused of violating the EU’s Digital Services Act....
China executed a former executive of a top state-controlled asset management firm for corruption on Tuesday, state media reported....
Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene says the "hybrid attack" poses a real risk to national security and civil aviation....
Australia banned young teenagers from social media on Wednesday, launching a world-first crackdown designed to unglue children from addictive scrolling on the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok....
Microsoft also said it would expand its Azure Local cloud offering in Canada....
US and Ukrainian negotiators have refined a framework peace agreement developed in Geneva....
In his latest public criticism of Europe, the US president claims countries are "decaying"....
There has been pushback to the term used by France's first lady to describe activists who interrupted comedian Ary Abittan's show....
The group say adopting a gesture used by protesters helped to defuse tensions during a 2020 demonstration....
Australia becomes one of the first nations to so forcefully push back against tech titans wielding immense political power....
Two hundred thousand people have fled their homes in eastern Congo in recent days, the United Nations said, as Rwanda-backed rebels march on a strategic town just days after Donald Trump hosted the Rw...
US lawmakers could withhold Pentagon travel funds until unedited video of a controversial incident is made public....
The blaze in the Indonesian capital breaks out as office workers take their lunch break....
It is examining whether the tech giant did not offer "appropriate compensation" to web publishers....
Honduras’ top prosecutor has issued an international arrest warrant for former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, intensifying legal and political turmoil just days after the ex-leader walked free from...
Ukraine barely has a hold on Pokrovsk, but its forces are keen to show they are still resisting Russia's advance....
Two more Thai soldiers were killed in renewed border clashes with neighbour Cambodia, the Thai army said, raising the death toll for Thai troops to three....
The US and other governments derailed agreement on a global environment study, it's co-chair says....
This is according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)....
The roots of the South East Asian neighbours' dispute go back more than a century....
Andrej Babis, a billionaire supporter of US President Donald Trump, returned to power as Czech prime minister on Tuesday, signalling a possible end to Ukraine aid....
Jimmy Kimmel has extended his contract with Disney-owned ABC for a year, months after his late-night show was yanked off the air in a confrontation with President Donald Trump’s administration....
South Korean police raided the Seoul headquarters of e-commerce giant Coupang on Tuesday over a recent data leak believed to have affected almost two-thirds of the country's population....
More than 250 human rights on Tuesday renewed pressure on the German government to take in hundreds of Afghans stranded in Pakistan who had been offered sanctuary by Berlin....
Reporters Without Borders said that Israel was responsible for nearly half of all journalists killed this year worldwide, with 29 Palestinian reporters slain by its forces in Gaza....
Indian authorities confirmed the two brothers boarded a flight to Phuket in Thailand shortly after the incident....
Kyiv is seeking to resist a US push for a deal which would see territory handed over to Russia....
The building has not been in use since earlier this year....
Ukraine’s European allies have agreed to increase their support for Ukraine and put more economic pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin as they say efforts to end Moscow’s “barbaric” war are at...
Australia is set to become the first country to implement a minimum age for social media use...
It was not clear if he would stay in his rent-stabilised apartment in the borough of Queens....
The president also threatened to hit Mexico with an extra 5% tariff in a row over water supplies to US farmers....
A chartered plane carrying more than 50 Iranians flew out of Mesa, Arizona, on Sunday....
The child was reportedly playing near her family's tent in Mawasi Rafah when she was shot....
The United Nations hit out at global “apathy” over widespread suffering as it launched its 2026 appeal for humanitarian assistance, which is limited in scope as aid operations confront major funding c...
The 7.6 magnitude tremor prompts tsunami warnings and orders to evacuate residents....
Europe's leaders are trying to avoid alienating Donald Trump while fighting for Ukrainian sovereignty and future continental stability....
Paramount says its proposal is a "superior alternative" for shareholders than the rival offer from Netflix....