A haunting image of a young Gazan boy recovering from war injuries has been named World Press Photo of the Year for 2025.
The portrait, taken by Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf for the New York Times, shows nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who (...)
Gold has jumped to a fresh high as investors fret over the impact of the trade war between the US and China.
Spot gold touched $3,357.40 (£2,540) per ounce on Wednesday, before dipping from its peak. It has risen by around a third since the start of (...)
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by (...)
Sudan's paramilitaries have declared the formation of a rival government to the country's armed forces, two years into a war that has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis.
The leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan (...)
The United Kingdom's highest court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied.
Britain's Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in (...)
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women safely returned to Earth after reaching space aboard Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket.
The singer was joined by Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King, who said a highlight of the flight (...)
More than 400 people have been killed in recent attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan's Darfur region, says the UN citing "credible sources".
Last week, the RSF launched an intense ground and aerial assault on refugee camps (...)
Indian businessman Mehul Choksi has been arrested in Belgium following India's request for his extradition.
Choksi, who left India in 2018, was arrested on Saturday, his lawyer Vijay Aggarwal told the BBC on Monday.
The diamond merchant is wanted by (...)
A high-level international conference is under way in London to find "a pathway to peace" in Sudan, hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
Sudan's civil war began exactly two years ago causing what aid agencies call the world's worst (...)
LONDON — Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Eng. Waleed Al-Khuraiji reaffirmed the Kingdom's firm stance on the need to halt foreign support to all parties involved in the Sudanese conflict. He stressed that this is an essential step to pave the way for (...)
وقَّعت مؤسسة محمد بن سلمان "مسك" مذكرة تفاهم مع كلية لندن للأعمال (London Business School) إحدى أبرز المؤسسات الأكاديمية العالمية، برعاية نائب رئيس مجلس إدارة مؤسسة "مسك" الدكتور ماجد بن عبدالله القصبي، ووزير التعليم يوسف بن عبدالله البنيان.
وتأتي (...)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Donald Trump to visit his country ahead of any deal with Russia to end the war.
"Please, before any kind of decisions, any kind of forms of negotiations, come to see people, civilians, warriors, (...)
Pop star Katy Perry and five other women are set to blast into space aboard Jeff Bezos' space tourism rocket. The singer will be joined by Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sánchez and CBS presenter Gayle King. The New Shepard rocket is due to lift off from (...)
The head of the British armed forces has visited China for the first time in a decade.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin discussed "issues of common concern" with China's military leaders in Beijing, its defense ministry said in a short statement.
"We agreed (...)
Oscar-winning actress and Avengers star Scarlett Johansson is featuring twice at this year's Cannes Film Festival, both in front of and behind the camera.
She will appear in Wes Anderson's new project, The Phoenician Scheme, alongside Benicio Del (...)
Britain's Duke of Sussex met war victims in Ukraine on Thursday when he visited a clinic that rehabilitates wounded military personnel and civilians, a spokesperson has said.
Prince Harry visited the Superhumans Center, in the western city of Lviv, (...)
Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa has been cast in a new play as Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe, the Royal Shakespeare Company has announced.
Born With Teeth will explore the relationship between a 27-year-old Marlowe and rising star William (...)
As Saudi Arabia continues to climb global rankings in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Index 2025, Prince Sultan University is playing a key academic and research role in driving national progress in the field of artificial intelligence, in (...)
Tributes have been paid to a London-based scientist who formerly worked for the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) after he was found murdered in northern Colombia.
Alessandro Coatti's remains were discovered on the outskirts of Santa Marta, a port city (...)
A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours.
The exact 3D replica shows the violence of how the ship ripped in two as it sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 — 1,500 (...)
In a medical milestone, 36-year-old Grace Davidson has become the first woman in the UK to give birth after receiving a womb transplant — a groundbreaking achievement hailed by surgeons as "astonishing."
Davidson, who was born without a uterus due (...)
The Metropolitan Police is deciding what action to take after receiving a report accusing 10 British nationals of war crimes and crimes against humanity while they served in Israel's military in Gaza.
The 240-page report "will now be assessed by (...)
A "miracle" baby girl has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb.
The baby's mum, Grace Davidson, 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb in 2023 – in what was then the UK's (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his troops are active in Russia's Belgorod region.
"We continue to carry out active operations in the border areas on enemy territory, and that is absolutely (...)
