The world ushered in 2025 on Tuesday, with huge crowds waving goodbye to the old year that brought Olympic glory, a dramatic Donald Trump return and turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Authorities in Gaza have updated the death toll from Israel's war on the enclave to 61 709, having added thousands who are missing and now presumed dead....
President Donald Trump on Thursday warned off BRICS member countries from replacing the US dollar as a reserve currency by repeating a 100% tariffs threat he had made weeks after winning the November presidential elections....
Air traffic controllers warned a US Army helicopter it was on course to collide with a passenger jet, reveals audio captured from the deadly accident, which ends in audible gasps from those in the control room....
The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of London - could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals....
Auschwitz survivors warned of the dangers of rising antisemitism on Monday, as they marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops....
Tariffs proposed by US President Donald Trump will likely stoke prices in South Africa should they go ahead, according to the chief executive officers of two of its largest banks....
The International Criminal Court has taken measures to shield staff from possible US sanctions, paying salaries three months in advance, as it braces for financial restrictions that could cripple the war crimes tribunal, two sources said on Friday....
South Korea's military said that it suspects North Korea is preparing to send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, even after suffering losses and seeing some of its soldiers captured....
Russia's invasion is forcing Ukraine to speed up its green energy transition as a way to secure its electricity supply and infrastructure against attacks, the head of Ukraine's biggest private electricity provider said....
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity....
The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programmes....
Israeli forces are applying methods learned during the war on Gaza to their ongoing "Iron Wall" military operation in the occupied West Bank, Israel's defence minister said....
The Russian media companies launched cases in multiple countries including South Africa, Spain and Vietnam. Google has won a UK court ruling....
US President Donald Trump told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to make a deal to end the grinding Ukraine war "now" or face tariff hikes and more sanctions....
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday hailed Donald Trump's diplomatic efforts to help secure a truce in the Gaza Strip following 15 months of war....
The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison, said she regretted not finding the right words to stop him returning to Moscow....
Russian hackers have attacked the websites of several regional banks and local councils in Switzerland, which is currently hosting the World Economic Forum, Swiss news agency ATS reported on Tuesday....
Palestinians have recovered dozens of bodies buried under rubble in Gaza and are searching for thousands more as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues to hold for a second day....
A Russian disinformation campaign is seeking to boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), undermine mainstream German parties and sow worries about the economy ahead of the country's 23 February election, a think-tank has found....
Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners after Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages, completing the first exchange under a long-awaited truce aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in Gaza....
US President Donald Trump has taken exception to the billions of dollars given to Ukraine in the proxy war against Russia as well as the bottomless pit of billions given to Israel in just one year, preferring to use the money back home, argues Oscar van Heerden....
Fighting in the Gaza Strip halted on Sunday as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas took effect after a brief delay, pausing a 15-month-old war that has brought devastation and seismic political change to the Middle East....
Qatar faced criticism over its mediation between Israel and Hamas, but after more than a year of war in Gaza, the tiny emirate emerged a winner after it announced a ceasefire deal....
US officials warned "dangerous and strong" winds were set to push deadly wildfires further through Los Angeles residential areas Sunday as firefighters struggled to make progress against the flames....
President Joe Biden is expected to unveil new sanctions targeting Russia's economy this week, according to a US official, as part of measures to bolster Kyiv's war effort against Moscow before Donald Trump takes office....
European leaders on Wednesday warned Donald Trump against threatening "sovereign borders" after the US President-elect refused to rule out military action to take Greenland....
Israel is lining up lawyers and figuring out other ways in which it can support soldiers facing arrest in countries such as South Africa, after a reservist accused of war crimes fled Brazil last week....
Blizzard and winter storm conditions blasted the Midwest early on Sunday, as a massive weather system began tracking eastward across the United States, with authorities warning of some of the heaviest snowfalls in a decade and severe impact on transport....
South Korea's political leadership was in uncharted territory Saturday after the sitting president resisted arrest over a failed martial law decree days before the warrant expires....
Oil that leaked from two stricken tankers off the Russian coast has been detected on more beaches on the annexed peninsula of Crimea, Russian authorities said, as volunteers mount a massive environmental cleanup operation....
