Hamas on Thursday handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza — the first time the group has released deceased captives since October 7, 2023.
They are said to include the bodies of Shiri Bibas, who was aged 32 when she and her sons (...)
Governor of New York Kathy Hochul has called a crisis meeting on Tuesday to weigh whether to remove Mayor Eric Adams from office following a series of overlapping scandals.
A top prosecutor in Manhattan last week alleged the New York City mayor had (...)
Rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend.
A jury in Los Angeles acquitted the musician, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, on two felony assault charges that carried up to 24 years in prison.
Terell Ephron (...)
NEW YORK — Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed Al-Khuraiji participated in a high-level meeting UN Security Council meeting titled "Practicing Multilateralism Governance, Reforming and Improving Global Governance" here on Tuesday.
Al-Khuraiji delivered a (...)
When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't dispatch his secretary of state.
The man he sent to the Kremlin to (...)
Pope drama Conclave and immigration epic The Brutalist walked away with some of the biggest prizes at the Bafta film awards on Sunday.
Conclave, made by German director Edward Berger, picked up four awards in total including best film and best (...)
South Korea has banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, according to the country's personal data protection watchdog.
The government agency said the AI model will become available again to South Korean users (...)
Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and Washington resigned Thursday instead of complying with orders from the Trump administration to dismiss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
The flurry of resignations (...)
Accused Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik is being released from US custody in exchange for Marc Fogel, a Trump administration source told CNN Wednesday.
Vinnik is accused of running a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency exchange that (...)
The US justice department has told prosecutors to drop the corruption cases against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
In a memo seen by the BBC's US news partner CBS, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, who was appointed by President Donald (...)
Neha Satpute and Akshay Pise felt ready to welcome their first child.
Having worked in the US for more than a decade, the Indian couple who are engineers on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, expected their son — due on 26 February — to be born (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed that he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about efforts to end the war in Ukraine, stating that the Russian leader is eager to bring the conflict to a close.
In an interview with The New York Post on (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed the possibility of deporting Prince Harry, citing the Duke of Sussex's personal struggles as a reason to leave him alone. "I don't want to do that... He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible," (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked the security clearances of several top officials from the previous administration, including former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, White House officials (...)
Donald Trump's proposal for a US takeover of Gaza was met with anger and blunt rejection from regional allies, and a stern warning against "ethnic cleansing" from the head of the United Nations.
It is vital to stay true to the bedrock of (...)
India's biggest news organizations are seeking to join a lawsuit against OpenAI, the US startup behind ChatGPT, for alleged unauthorised use of their content.
The news organizations include some of India's oldest publications like The Indian (...)
US President Donald Trump's announcement on Tuesday that the US could "take over" the Gaza Strip after its population were permanently displaced to other countries has been condemned across the Middle East and beyond — and celebrated by members of (...)
The black boxes for a commercial flight that crashed into a military helicopter in Washington DC have been located, as questions mount about staffing and other close calls at the airport where the plane was landing.
Normally two people manage air (...)
A star-studded line-up is taking over two venues in Los Angeles for a benefit concert to help the area recover from two of the largest fires in its history.
More than 20 artists from various genres are on the line-up for the FireAid benefit show, (...)
The aviation world is struggling to understand how a deadly mid-air collision between a passenger plane and military helicopter was able to happen in what one expert described as "the most controlled bit of airspace in the world".
A US Army Black (...)
A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration's plans to freeze all federal aid, a policy that unleashed confusion and worry from charities and educators even as the White House said it was not as sweeping (...)
Their numbers are dwindling but the voices of the Auschwitz survivors remain powerful.
"We were stripped of all humanity," said Leon Weintraub, 99, the oldest of four who spoke beside the notorious Death Gate at the Birkenau extermination (...)
The CIA now leans toward the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have resulted from an accidental lab leak in China rather than a natural transmission from a wet market, according to a report Saturday by The New York Times.
The agency's revised (...)
A song recorded for Tina Turner's blockbuster album Private Dancer, that was presumed lost, has been rediscovered and will receive its first play on BBC Radio 2 later.
Hot For You, Baby, was cut at Capitol Studios in Hollywood and originally (...)
