A beloved pageant tries to maintain its footing as its owners change and the media landscape evolves....
The White House released a statement on X, saying its Chargé d'Affaires in Pretoria will attend...
South Korea’s coast guard launched an investigation into a ferry that ran aground overnight, arresting the first officer and an Indonesian crew member for suspected gross negligence, officers said....
Zelenskyy has received a draft of a US plan to end the war in Ukraine...
A fire that forced the evacuation on Thursday of the site hosting the UN’s COP30 climate talks in Belem, Brazil, has been brought under control, causing no injuries, tourism minister Celso Sabino said...
The plan was reportedly drafted by US and Russian officials, without Ukraine's involvement....
Thousands of people are attending the UN climate talks in Brazil....
Álvaro García Ortiz is barred from the post for two years and must pay €10,000 in compensation....
Cheney died aged 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease in early November....
Fire breaks out inside Blue Zone pavilion at COP30 in Belem, Brazil, halting all negotiations and activities; authorities order evacuation....
Ramaphosa stresses that South Africa remains committed to constructive engagement...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touched down at the OR Tambo International Airport...
Charlotte's Democratic leaders say border agents are "stoking fear" in the city....
Pope Leo XIV called Thursday on the Italian Church to develop a "culture of prevention" on clerical child sex abuse....
SABC sources have confirmed that the US now wants to attend the G20 Summit....
The assassination of Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo at a Day of the Dead ceremony triggered mass protests....
US President Donald Trump has approved a bill that orders the release of material from investigations into Epstein, the late sex offender....
A Philippine court sentenced Alice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor while masquerading as a Filipina, and seven others to life in prison on human trafficking charges, state prosecutors said....
Ari Gisell told her boyfriend she liked the tyres on their car, instigating the carjacking that killed three surfers in Mexico last year....
The first edition of Maurizio Cattelan's work was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019....
Russia is using Telegram to recruit Ukrainian children and teenagers to carry out sabotage and bombings according to the Ukrainian government....
US President Donald Trump said he will host New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani for a meeting, after fiercely attacking the 34-year-old self-described Democratic Socialist during his recent campaign...
Trump announced in a social media post on Wednesday that he had signed the measure....
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers stepped down from positions at Harvard University and the OpenAI board amid the continuing fallout from his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey E...
The court blocked La Pascaline, a 400-year-old calculating machine, from being exported from France....
The bill gives the US Justice Department 30 days to release all the files in a searchable format....
The home secretary told MPs on Monday around 700 Albanian families were "living in taxpayer-funded accommodation having failed their asylum claims"....
Australia will now support the Turkish bid in return for their minister chairing the talks....
It comes amid reports the US and Russia have prepared a 28-point peace plan, allegedly containing major concessions for Ukraine....
Former Ukrainian military officer Serhiy Kuznetsov will face a charge of anti-constitutional sabotage in Berlin....
The US Justice Department will release files from its investigation into the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday, after Congress voted nearly...
The Israeli military says it struck several Hamas targets after gunmen fired at soldiers in Gaza in violation of the five-week-old ceasefire....
Thirty-five people and three institutions are on trial. Prosecutors say years of failings turned the venue into a death trap....
At least 25 Palestinians were killed in four Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday in a part of Gaza under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, health authorities said....
Under-sixteens will be banned from major social media plaforms from 10 December....
Gaza government has estimated losses from the stormy weather at around $4.5 million...
Drugs gangs have a grip on Marseille, but Amine Kessaci says he has "no choice but to fight" after the violent deaths of his brothers....
The vessel is stuck on a reef and unable to move, but there is no risk of sinking, the Coast Guard said....
The former US treasury secretary has faced a backlash over frequent messages to Epstein....
Two ministers in Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s cabinet resigned on Tuesday after being implicated in an ongoing investigation into “ghost” infrastructure and billions of dollars of missin...
Many in Bangladesh want deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to return to the country to face her death sentence....
A fire has ripped through more than 170 buildings in a southern Japanese coastal city, burning overnight and still not fully extinguished, the national fire agency said....
The value of bitcoin has fallen sharply since reaching record heights last month, briefly falling below $90,000 on Tuesday....
Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched to death in 2015 over rumours that he had eaten beef....
Lebanese-French musician Omar Harfouch is one of two judges who resigned days before the finals in Thailand....
The portrait of Austrian heiress Elisabeth Lederer was looted by the Nazis and almost destroyed....
Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a crowded Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s south killed at least 13 people, as Israel said it struck a Hamas compound....
Nicki Minaj praised Donald Trump’s stand on the persecution of religious minorities, calling for an end to faith-based persecution in Nigeria....
Russia launched more than 470 drones and 47 missiles in the "brazen attack", he wrote in a post on Telegram....
Trump plans to sign the bill when it reaches his desk, a senior White House official said....
US President Donald Trump said that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents....
The resounding vote in favour of the Epstein bill, 427-1, marks a rare moment of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill that was - almost - unanimous....
Jeffrey Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking underage girls....
The Trump administration has been secretly formulating a new plan to end the war in Ukraine in consultation with Russia, Axios reported, citing US and Russian officials....
Once Trump signs the measure, the justice department will have 30 days to release the materials....
The US president's claims that the crown prince "knew nothing" contradict the CIA's own assessment....
The Israeli military says it was targeting members of Hamas "operating in a training compound". Hamas has not commented....
The Portuguese player is being paid handsomely to be part of the gulf state's modernisation plan....
Taiwanese prosecutors charged seven people, including a Chinese national, on Tuesday with violating national security after they allegedly collected military secrets for China....
The Shia Muslim group's military wing is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the EU....
An Al Jazeera journalist was shot and injured while covering a demonstration by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank that was dispersed by Israeli soldiers, AFP journalists witnessed on Tuesday....
Public prosecutor Hansjörg Mayr says two men, aged 55 and 53, are being held on "strong suspicion of murder"....
An Argentine judge was relieved of her post on Tuesday after causing a mistrial in the negligence case against late football legend Diego Maradona’s medical team due to her involvement in a documentar...
There were no plans for the Russian side to join the talks, the Kremlin said....
EU and US are taking steps to limit Brazilian farm exports, citing concerns over deforestation....
Two Ukrainians working for Moscow have been identified as suspects in two cases of rail line sabotage in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said during a speech in Parliament on Tuesday....
In a foreword to the WFP's 2026 Global Outlook report, she said the world's response "remains slow, fragmented and underfunded"....
North Korea denounced an agreement between Seoul and Washington to build nuclear-powered submarines, saying in a state media commentary on Tuesday that the deal would cause a “nuclear domino” effect....
Following increased US pressure on the Venezuelan government, the two sides say they are open to talks....
Trump will welcome Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House for the first time since Jamal Khashoggi's murder....
Donald Tusk said the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had long worked for Russia....
US President Donald Trump says he may expand his unprecedented strikes against Latin American drug cartels to include Mexico, the Reuters news agency and the TV network NBC report....
A new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) alleges "systematic killings and cover-ups"....
US delivers 1,000 doses of HIV prevention drug Lenacapavir to Zambia and Eswatini, State Department says low-income African countries to get two million doses by 2028....
The UN Security Council on Monday adopted the US drafted resolution....
Andre McKechnie argues the Vegemite ban in Victoria's jails denies him the right to "enjoy his culture"....
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's government recognises 10 new Indigenous lands during climate summit....
US President Donald Trump hailed the UN Security Council’s vote in favour of his Gaza peace plan, claiming it would lead to “further Peace all over the World”....
The Mission: Impossible star received the honorary prize after being nominated four times for an Academy Award....
Delayed releases include Cells at Work! and Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Super Hot! The Spicy Kasukabe Dancers, Chinese state media said....
US lawmakers are expected to advance a bill requiring the release of government records on millionaire sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, in defiance of Donald Trump’s attempts to keep a lid on one of mode...
The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution mandating a transitional administration and an International Stabilization Force in Gaza that envisions a “credible pathway” to Palestinia...
Trump celebrated the vote as "a moment of true Historic proportion" in a social media post....
The former US treasury secretary says he is "ashamed" of his emails to Jeffrey Epstein....
The former FBI director is facing federal charges after Donald Trump called for his prosecution....
The approval of the fiscal plan - the second largest in Canada's history - allows the prime minister's minority government to avert an early election....
Korean-American actress Arden Cho tells BBC Global Women she struggled to feel accepted while growing up in Texas....
When an insurer for FBI and CIA agents was sold to a Chinese entity, it led the US to tighten investment laws....
Included in the 20-point peace plan is the establishment of an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), which would work to demilitarise the territory....
Germany's Culture Minister calls the discovery a "great moment for the world of music"....
President Volodymyr Zelensky hails a "historic" deal aimed at boosting Ukraine's defences against deadly Russian air attacks....
Nigeria is in talks with the United States following President Donald Trump’s threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians by jihadists in the country, Nigeria’s foreign minister to...
Some sellers were found to be luring viewers to their personal pages on adult platforms such as OnlyFans....
A US judge on Monday found evidence of “government misconduct” in how a prosecutor aligned with President Donald Trump secured criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and ordered that...
Eswatini confirmed for the first time on Monday that it had received more than $5 million from the United States to accept dozens of people expelled under Washington’s aggressive mass deportation driv...
The Campana Gallery, which host Greek ceramics, will remain closed as beams supporting the floor above are checked....
Immigration has become the most important issue for British voters recently....
The BBC’s chair vowed on Monday to fight a billion-dollar lawsuit which US President Donald Trump has threatened to bring against the British broadcaster for defamation....
Sheikh Hasina is credited for the country's economic progress but also accused of authoritarianism....
Ecuadoran voters roundly rejected the return of US military bases to the country in a referendum, a major political blow to Trump-friendly President Daniel Noboa....