Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record

A court in France is to rule on Friday in the case of a 39-year-old convicted French jihadist charged with holding four journalists captive more than a decade ago in war-torn Syria.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz yesterday threatened to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory.

Russia and Ukraine yesterday accused each other of blowing up a Russian gas pumping station in a border area where Ukrainian troops have been retreating, amid talks over a proposed US-backed moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure.

The Pakistani Taliban killed at least five police officers and wounded six others in multiple attacks in the country’s northwest, police said yesterday.

Hamas has called on Arab and Muslim nations to take urgent action to halt Israel’s renewed offensive on Gaza, saying they had a “direct moral and political responsibility” to “end the genocide”.

US President Donald Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at “eliminating” the Department of Education, a decades-old goal of the American right, which wants individual states to run schools free from the federal government.

Iran’s supreme leader yesterday said that US threats against his country “will get them nowhere” after President Donald Trump warned of possible military action against the Islamic Republic.

Last year was the deadliest year for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying worldwide, the United Nations said on Friday, calling the “tragedy... unacceptable and preventable”.

Britain’s Heathrow Airport was shut yesterday after a huge fire at a nearby substation knocked out its power, stranding passengers around the world and angering airlines who questioned how such crucial infrastructure could fail.

Nearly 9,000 people confirmed to have died

The army said it had also taken control of ministries and other key buildings in central Khartoum

After two months of relative calm, Gazans were again fleeing for their lives after Israel effectively abandoned a ceasefire

The brand encounters consumer blowback in the wake of Musk's key advisory role in Trump's administration

Britain's Heathrow Airport said it would be closed all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power, disrupting flight schedules around the world.

The head of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, was sacked Friday, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he no longer trusts him, and fallout from a report on the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.

North Korea said Friday it had test-fired a new weapons system which would boost its combat readiness, as Russia's security chief arrived in Pyongyang for talks with leader Kim Jong Un.

"We're going to be returning education, very simply, back to the states where it belongs," said Trump in front of a colorful backdrop of state flags.

US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations.

A jury in North Dakota on Wednesday ordered Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in a closely watched lawsuit brought by a US pipeline operator, raising serious free speech concerns.