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The global music icon shares rare details about her low-key New York nuptials to Jay Z.

Presidential succession debates intensify in Uganda as the military chief and president's son drives high-level arrests and political friction.

Heirs of former German owners claim the Vincent van Gogh masterpiece was disposed of under Nazi duress ahead of an upcoming New York sale.

The 2026 El Niño has been officially named "Super El Niño," following ocean temperatures that exceeded 2.0°C above average in the Niño 3.4 zone in the Pacific Ocean for three straight months—the second time since 2015-16.

Investigations are ongoing to find out why the tanker named Atlantic Asphalt "lost control" and collided with an anchored river cruise ship in New Orleans on Friday, resulting in the overturning of the cruise ship and passengers being dumped into the Mississippi River.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy attributes the unprecedented flight disruption to contractor error during an infrastructure transition, ruling out cyber threats.

The FDA has approved AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) in combination with enfortumab vedotin (EV) as neoadjuvant treatment, followed by Imfinzi monotherapy after surgery, for adults with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who are ineligible for or have refused cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

More than 100 years after women were granted the right to vote in the US Constitution, a coalition of MAGA extremists wants women to go back to a time when men vote for their households.

US negotiators have raised the idea of Ukraine withdrawing from the eastern Donbas region in exchange for NATO membership, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed Friday, the first time such a proposal has been put forward in peace talks.

The world's three most powerful leaders could sit down together next week to discuss global flashpoints, from wars in Ukraine and Iran to nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence.

Abuja advises travelers with underlying medical conditions to exercise caution after linking transit through the Ethiopian hub to multiple fatalities.

Flights in the United States were resuming on Saturday after being grounded for several hours due to a major communications outage, though authorities said returning to normal operations would take time.

Russian negotiators have put forward far-reaching demands during Abu Dhabi talks to end the war in Ukraine, including Finland leaving NATO and a ban on any NATO military bases in the Baltic states.

Turkiye and Qatar signed a defence agreement on Friday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said would further strengthen ties between the regional allies, his office said.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas struck a naval mine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what they described was an "unauthorised and dangerous route", state media reported.

Logan Circle neighbourhood shooting suspect has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police sources confirmed.

The US military has denied speculative claims that it is preparing for a possible resumption of operations against Iran, dismissing claims of changes to its regional force posture as “pure speculation.“ A US Central Command (CENTCOM) official said there were no updates to the US force posture in the Middle East.

Despite an opening statement by Turkiye’s presidency – of making the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP31) in Antalya an ‘implementation COP’ – the negotiators from rich countries have seemed reluctant to include a delivery plan for adaptation finance in line with COP30’s call for efforts to at least triple adaptation finance, marking $1.3 trillion a year by 2035, as an agenda item.

A crash and fire involving a truck and several other vehicles in the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah emirate killed 14 people and injured 30 others, police said on Thursday, in one of the UAE’s deadliest road crashes.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he wanted Vice President JD Vance to focus "his complete and total attention" on any crime and corruption in Democratic-run US cities, saying that effort could save more money than a deal with Iran.

One person was killed and multiple others wounded on Thursday in an active shooting in Washington, DC, with the shooter barricaded inside a building and personnel in tactical gear arriving on scene, according to local media.

In a historic upset, Democrat Scott Colom has won his US Senate race in traditionally conservative Mississippi, networks projected Wednesday, making him the first African American elected to the chamber from the southern state in more than 140 years.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres railed against the oil and gas lobby on Wednesday, telling world leaders fossil fuels “must go the way of the dinosaurs” at a climate summit missing several prominent figures.

UK police were questioning on Wednesday a senior American soldier assigned to Nato and suspected of spying for Russia, after his arrest amid a joint investigation with the US military and law enforcement.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives blocked an effort on Tuesday to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, winning a reprieve for the polarising Pentagon chief before Democrats take control of Congress next year and possibly try again.

A first day of US-led talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi ended on Tuesday, with Washington calling for a “new” security framework, as Europe fears US President Donald Trump plans a deal with Moscow on the continent’s future.

Israel’s parliament was sworn in on Tuesday without a new government, after a deadlocked general election stripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority but left his main rivals with no clear path to power.

Mohsen Rezaei said Iran distrusts Washington. Iran's top security official Mohsen Rezaei said there were currently no negotiations taking place between Tehran and Washington.

Britain said on Tuesday that its military bases were safe, after the US removed huge refuelling aircraft from a British airbase following a reported threat from Iran, the second such apparent evacuation in three months.

Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, October 12, 2026.

Smoke rises following an airstrike at Sanaa International Airport.