The Ukrainian president said his government will only accept a ‘fair peace’ to end the conflict despite the West’s calls for a quick solution.

The justice faced calls to recuse himself from cases involving the ex-US president after a photo surfaced of the upside-down flag being flown outside his home.

The event, featuring pieces by Yasmina Qanzal, pushes the envelope in a country where women were required to wear body-covering robes less than a decade ago.

McCartney wealth is estimated at US$1.26 billion, partly due to government plans to scrap the ‘non-dom tax status’ where people do not pay tax on overseas earnings, and Beyoncé covering a Beatles’ song, the Sunday Times Rich List said.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico had a second operation, that lasted about two hours deputy prime minister Robert Kalinak told reporters.

The last piece of privately owned land in the strategic Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic is up for grabs, a property likely to entice China but which Norway does not intend to let go without a fight.

The 71-year-old accused of the attempted assassination of Slovakia’s prime minister led a life apparently far removed from his alleged violence.

Bahraini royal can now seek re-election in 2027, but it is a ‘clear signal of our intent to ensure that we remain a model confederation’, according to Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa.

Sonthaya Oakkharasr and Sudthisak Rinthalak, who worked in the plantations near Kibbutz Be’eri, were originally thought to have survived the October 7 attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch a full-scale ground operation in Rafah in a bid to dismantle the remaining battalions of Hamas.

Tributes pour in from football elite as India captain Sunil Chhetri calls time on record-breaking career. He hit 94 goals in 150 appearances for India in two decades representing his country.

Organisers said they managed to deliver supplies to Filipino fishers despite ‘China’s massive blockade’.

Republican Trump replied he was ready to ‘rumble’, after being challenged by the Democratic incumbent.

A senior official in Thailand’s climate change office thinks a move could be possible, with much of the capital already battling floods during the rainy season.

Why are Sweden’s indie game studios so successful? Small teams from the country have produced more video game hits than one would expect, from Minecraft to Valheim to Raft. Insiders break it down.

The United Nations clarifies a fresh breakdown of the death toll in Gaza, after Israel condemned the world body for ‘parroting … Hamas’s propaganda messages’.

As Donald Trump faces a historic criminal trial, senior Republicans are beating a path to his New York courtroom to hammer home the narrative of a witch hunt and launch proxy attacks on witnesses he is barred from targeting.

Huge throngs of protesters blocked streets in the capital of Georgia and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers approved a bill that critics call a Russian-style threat to free speech.

A coastguard boat escorted the flotilla carrying supplies to Filipino fishermen in the China-controlled reef.

Unassuming and modest despite her vast success and mastery of the form, the Booker-winning writer as ‘Canada’s Chekhov’ suffered from dementia in recent years.

The 26-year-old national team player suffered burns on the neck, shoulder, hands and chest two weeks ago, while two others were also attacked.

EU government ministers approved 10 legislative parts of The New Pact on Migration and Asylum. It lays out rules for the 27 member countries to handle people trying to enter without authorisation.

Blinken’s unannounced trip to Kyiv comes just weeks after US Congress finally approved a US$61 billion financial aid package for Ukraine after months of political wrangling.

World Anti-Doping Agency says meeting will allow members to question experts over approach to incident involving 23 athletes who tested positive for heart drug trimetazidine.

The streets of New Caledonia’s main city Noumea bore the scars of clashes on Tuesday with traffic blocked by burnt-out cars and smoking piles of tyres.

Melinda French Gates is stepping down as co-chair of the US$75 billion foundation she helped run with her former husband, Bill Gates.

The “digital guillotine” started on TikTok after the Met Gala reflected the perceived disconnect with grim realities.

David McBride’s leaks to the media led to revelations about Australian soldiers’ involvement in the illegal killings of unarmed Afghan men and children.

The US$13 charge and cap on daily climbers on Mount Fuji’s Yoshida Trail will be enforced with the help of an online booking system, introduced to fight overtourism on Japan’s highest mountain.

We track the journey of how the mosquito first gets infected and how it passes the disease on to a human being.