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A court sentenced the pro-democracy figure to a decade in prison for colluding with foreign governments, the latest ruling in Beijing's years-long crackdown on the city's 2019 protest movement.
A National Police Air Service helicopter's night patrol left an unmistakable shape in its flight-tracking data this week. Officers say the search behind it was entirely real — the pattern was not.
Karl Bushby set out from the tip of South America in 1998 planning a 12-year trek. Three decades, a frozen Bering Strait crossing and a Russian border dispute later, he walked the last mile home to his mother's door.
Tehran's Revolutionary Guard reported the largest single mine claim yet in a monthslong pattern Washington has repeatedly disputed.
A colony of narrow-headed ants, found nowhere else in the country, was taken from a Devon nature reserve that is the species' last English stronghold.
American forces hit Iranian targets in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, a fresh escalation in a war that has simmered since February, landing just hours before voters decide control of Congress.
A year-old outbreak in a conflict-torn province has become the deadliest in Congo's history, with responders now also facing violence from communities that blame them for the virus.
Defending champion Gukesh D and challenger Javokhir Sindarov are both 20, making their November title match the youngest in the event's history.
The exchange is using corporate funds, not recovered assets, to make customers whole — even as President Trump hedges on the bureau's own attribution.
A third weekend of French demonstrations and a night of rioting in Frankfurt point to a wider European reckoning over wages, welfare and the price of living.
Flemington Racecourse prepares for the Melbourne Cup's 166th running, a public holiday across Victoria and still one of the biggest betting events on the global racing calendar.
The State Department approved 500 interceptors funded entirely by European allies, but Kyiv says deliveries could take years even as Russian strikes on the power grid intensify before winter.
The Chicago-born pope mailed in his ballot from Illinois days before a midterm vote he has watched collide with his own clashes with the Trump White House.
A jet-powered drone struck a crowded platform as a commuter train stood at the station, part of a wider wave of strikes that also hit Chernihiv and Kremenchuk overnight.
President Nayib Bukele ordered the deployment after two bodies handed over by Haitian authorities turned out not to match the missing men, deepening a standoff over the fate of four ambushed gang-suppression troops.
With 85% of ballots counted, Likud and its allies are tracking toward 53 Knesset seats — short of a majority — as President Herzog praises the country's highest turnout in two decades.
A control-center order to resume travel without speed restrictions, after a computer failure stopped one train on the tracks, led to one of Europe's deadliest rail disasters in decades.
A government disclosure rule for "stigmatized" properties has created a whole category of bargain rentals for house hunters willing to live alongside Japan's lingering spirits.
Flávio Bolsonaro missed a deadline to surrender his passport over a money-laundering probe, then slipped across the Argentine border by car before boarding a private flight, as Lula called the escape "shameful."
With more than two-thirds of votes counted, Netanyahu's bloc and Gadi Eisenkot's opposition are both short of a majority, and a surge in turnout among Palestinian citizens has left them holding the balance of power.
The Villa Vie Odyssey was 750 days into a planned circumnavigation of nearly 150 countries when soaring fuel costs tied to the Iran war forced its operator to halt the journey in the port city of Sihanoukville.
Polling shows a near dead-heat between the incumbent and former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, with neither bloc projected to win a governing majority outright.
Melania Trump says she brokered the truce in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied Kherson city where some 6,000 people, including 200 children, have gone without power, gas or water for three years.
The 80-year-old leftist overturned a first-round deficit to beat Flávio Bolsonaro by roughly 3.6 points, as world leaders hail a result that bucks the region's rightward drift.
Record turnout and two years of protest over a deadly train-station collapse culminate in the populist leader's defeat, as the leaderless Student List prepares to enter parliament for the first time.
A life-sentenced inmate argued Victoria's prison ban on the iconic spread denied him his cultural rights. A Supreme Court judge disagreed — citing sniffer dogs.
The storm glanced off Taiwan's northeast coast, cutting power to more than 167,000 homes and keeping Taipei largely shut down for a second day, before turning toward the Chinese coast and, eventually, southern Japan.
Some 70,000 police officers are being deployed as hundreds of thousands prepare to march against high prices and austerity, with a revived yellow-vest movement demanding President Macron's resignation.
Some 200 emergency personnel battled flames into Saturday morning at the Kehlsteinhaus, the Bavarian mountain lodge the Nazi dictator once used to host foreign leaders and film animal-loving propaganda.
A yearlong chronology documents 43 attacks on health facilities during the siege of the Darfur city, with UN officials warning the assault may amount to war crimes.
Rescue teams battle rockfall and sub-zero cold in a remote Nagqu county as aftershocks top 400 and more than 12,000 residents are relocated.
The warning came as at least three people died in fresh strikes on a Saudi airport and oil field, the latest escalation in a monthslong Houthi campaign against the kingdom.
A deadly overnight barrage on the Ukrainian capital came hours after Moscow freed an imprisoned American and voiced guarded new openness to resuming U.S.-mediated peace talks.
The Swiss and Austrian aid workers are due to fly home Thursday after more than a year in captivity, officials said, though the circumstances of their release have not been fully detailed.
Nicknamed 'Bukangi,' the shark has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors to a Busan waterfront park since September, shrugging off two rescue attempts.
Health officials are tracing 44 contacts in Abuja after a woman who had traveled through Uganda tested positive, as Africa's fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak on record pushes into a fourth country.
Strikes two days apart in West Kordofan and the contested Abyei region pushed the regional death toll above 300, with a Sudanese military source confirming one attack to the BBC.
Faheem Akram allegedly ran a website that sold millions of counterfeit US shipping labels before a $100,000 reward led to his capture.
A Mombasa court found Mackenzie and 28 followers guilty over the Shakahola forest starvation deaths, delivering the first murder verdict in a case that has haunted Kenya since mass graves were found in 2023.
A fast-moving grass fire swept a live-fire training range at CFB Wainwright, overwhelming hospitals across the province and leaving dozens hurt, some critically.
The president blocked congressionally approved penalties two days before they were due to take effect, as Kyiv accuses Washington of throttling intelligence and satellite links while courting Moscow.
A cargo-transport businessman carrying the combined names of two 20th-century dictators has taken a slim lead in a tiny Huánuco district — the latest case in a long Peruvian pattern of borrowed, apolitical names.
A seven-year-old girl was among the dead after a rain-triggered surge of worshippers at a Kolkata festival site, authorities said.
Clashes, arson and looting swept Paris and provincial cities as a two-month student movement fused with union anger over fuel and food prices.
A viral phone video from Kamphaeng Phet drew more than 4 million views and revived an old debate: how do you know a stray dog is really gone?
Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad were shot dead in an apparent botched robbery during a 2024 surf trip to Baja California; their killers were sentenced more than two years later.
An executive order blocks sanctions Congress passed with rare bipartisan support just two days before they were due to bite, as Washington and Kyiv trade recriminations over a Russian diesel deal and a throttled Starlink network.
Betty Bromage broke her own Guinness World Record for oldest female wing walker, and became the oldest woman on record to complete a loop-the-loop strapped to the wing of a biplane.
The Ukrainian president traveled to Brussels to shore up European backing ahead of an EU leaders' summit, as a dispute over Starlink access further strained Kyiv's relations with Washington.
SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network imposed new speed limits on Ukraine's connectivity this week, deepening a rift between Kyiv and Washington over a US-Russia diesel deal.
A sharp rise in missile and drone strikes is choking the Strait of Hormuz, driving up fuel prices as Tehran seeks leverage over the Nov. 3 US midterm elections.
Tomi Kotilainen downed 500 milliliters of his favorite Finnish soda well inside Guinness's five-second target — and says he thinks he can go even faster.
Doctors removed the lower lobe of the pontiff's right lung after preoperative tests raised suspicion of cancer, the Vatican said, just 17 months into his papacy.
Overnight missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv killed at least three people, just three days after Washington announced an 'energy ceasefire' it said both sides had accepted.
A Ring doorbell camera caught a neighborhood cat slipping into a southeast London kitchen to finish off the family dog's food, before a very indignant Rosie chased it back out.
Hackers exploited outdated refrigeration-controller firmware to overheat cold storage overnight at major chains including Carrefour, Intermarché and Monoprix, with losses running into the millions of euros.
A deadly Saturday strike that killed 12 and wounded more than 300 has given way to near-daily attacks on Saudi Arabia's main airport, with Washington now weighing direct military involvement against the Houthis.
A stray dog believed to have died came back to life on a rescue truck in central Thailand, and video of the moment has drawn millions of views.
Washington's move to blacklist the tribunal as an institution, not just its officials, prompted condemnation from the UN and allies and could force the release of detainees including former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.
A shallow quake centered in the country's interior toppled a colonial-era cathedral and a hotel, sent residents into the streets of Panama City, and briefly put eleven neighboring countries on tsunami alert.
One of two tickets that split a record Lotto Max jackpot last October remains unclaimed, with the one-year deadline now just over two weeks away.
Drone strikes on Eritrean soldiers who crossed into northern Ethiopia follow a severing of diplomatic ties, reviving fears that Ethiopia's internal conflict could ignite a wider regional war.
A navigation marker that broke loose somewhere off Canada floated roughly 3,000 miles to a beach on Achill Island, and the local county council is joking about charging Ottawa to get it back.
Manhattan prosecutors are expected to accuse former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores of torturing Americans held in Venezuelan prisons, adding to charges from his January capture.
Escalating Houthi missile and drone strikes on airports in Abha and Riyadh mark a sharp widening of the reignited Yemen war, as Pakistan and Turkiye move to reinforce Saudi defenses.
João Marinho Neto and Ken Weeks were born exactly a year apart. On October 5 the Brazilian and the Australian turned 114 and 113 — and marked it with handwritten signs for each other.
Iran's currency sank to a new low against the dollar this week, exposing a widening rift among officials as health insurance funds buckle and inflation tops 84%.
Blockades and clashes at French high schools entered a third week, spreading to universities and prompting a stark warning from Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu against further violence.
Israel held dueling ceremonies for victims of the 2023 Hamas attack as fresh strikes near Al-Shifa Hospital killed two Palestinians and a year-old ceasefire remained far from a lasting peace.
Nearly 1,000 name suggestions poured in for a Nile hippo calf born at Dehiwala Zoo, and a young girl's pick, Momo, won.
The Pentagon quietly flew a dozen B-1 bombers home from RAF Fairford days after a terror probe near the base, prompting conflicting explanations from Trump, Vance and Rubio.
A new government push to retake Houthi-held territory has drawn Saudi airstrikes, missile attacks on Riyadh and an Aramco refinery, and a rapid military mobilization by Turkey and Pakistan.
A dashcam captured the moment a mother brown bear charged and clawed a stopped car in Hokkaido before fleeing with her cub, a reminder that Japan's bear season peaks each autumn.
The Pivnichnyi Bridge was struck again Sunday, knocking out a heating main, as Friedrich Merz traveled to Kyiv to pledge more air-defense help to Ukraine.
The president told Time magazine stockpiles of "some" weapons are thinner after eight months of conflict, even as he floats resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms.
Four sailors escaped a sinking yacht in the South Pacific after an open-ocean whale strike, then spent 17 hours adrift before a cargo ship found their raft.
Passengers wrestled control of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight from an Omani co-pilot after he stabbed the captain and sent the plane into a 17,000-foot plunge, UAE officials say.
Gergő Borbély's collection began with a single can on a dorm-room shelf in 2008; it now spans 500 brands and more than 40 countries.
The Pentagon is massing the largest concentration of American carrier power in the Gulf in two decades, even as officials insist the door to diplomacy with Tehran remains open.
A driver's phone video of a doomed rescue attempt has racked up millions of views across the UK.
Islamabad's latest raids on Taliban-held border provinces mark the newest breach of a year-old ceasefire that has repeatedly collapsed despite mediation from Qatar and Turkey.
A Slovenian stunt performer held an inverted pose for 47 seconds while fully engulfed in flames on a Vienna stage.
Baghdad's 'fixed and final' deadline for the U.S.-led coalition arrived Wednesday, handing full security control to Iraqi forces even as Iran-aligned militias vow to keep their weapons.
An Instagram account running a March Madness-style bracket for Delhi's chunkiest dogs borrowed its format — and its finale week — from Alaska's Fat Bear Week.
A daylong assault of more than 120 drones and a predawn ballistic-missile follow-up killed at least nine people nationwide and set fire to Ukraine's national science academy, as Moscow widens its campaign against civilian and economic targets.
South Africans returned to a Pretoria stadium a year after a failed attempt, hoping simultaneous grilling would finally top the record Japan set in 2023.
Explosives investigators, army bomb squads and hundreds of police descended on RAF Fairford after three trucks were spotted heading toward the base early Sunday, forcing dozens of households to evacuate.
A young emu that slipped its mobile zoo enclosure was mistaken for an ostrich as it wound through a Shiga Prefecture neighborhood before being cornered at an apartment complex.
The president dismissed Tehran's roadmap to lift the naval blockade and resume talks as unacceptable, days after the Senate again failed to rein in the seven-month-old conflict.
Iran's foreign minister proposed reopening the vital oil chokepoint within a week, but U.S. officials say Trump is skeptical of the offer and plans to resume strikes after the midterms.
Thousands of home cooks lit charcoal in unison at a Pretoria rugby stadium, hoping to reclaim the Guinness World Record for the biggest simultaneous barbecue on South Africa's Heritage Day.
Two days of red-carpet diplomacy produced a nine-week extension of the tariff truce and pledges to cooperate on AI safety, but analysts say the deeper rifts between Washington and Beijing remain unresolved.
A first-grader from Chengdu broke the same world record twice in three days, solving a Rubik's Cube in an average of 4.27 seconds.
A record daytime drone barrage killed two and wounded dozens in the Ukrainian capital hours before Zelensky pressed the UN for continued Western support.
Kelkit's local bean specialty, cooked by the ton in a single giant pot, earned Guinness certification and a rare moment of global attention for the small Gümüşhane town.
Police have launched a 72-hour manhunt after three armed men opened fire on a gathering in KwaMakhutha, killing a pregnant woman among the dead.
Three hours of talks in New York eased oil markets and raised hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as the US president warned of war if no deal follows November's midterm elections.
Seafloor sensors spanning thousands of miles of ocean point to a steady, basin-wide slowdown in the current system that helps regulate weather on both sides of the Atlantic.
Russia says it downed its largest number of drones this year as the capital's main fuel refinery caught fire during the final day of parliamentary voting.
The president is expected to claim victory on Iran while allies increasingly doubt a war that has hardened into a stalemate and unsettled global markets.
Ali Alobaidly's 28-hour exposure of the faint Shark Nebula topped nearly 4,000 entries from 66 countries in this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
The agreement, to be signed next week at the United Nations, expands the U.S. military footprint on the Danish territory while formally ruling out Chinese or Russian bases there.
Tens of thousands sat down along a 3.1-mile table of recycled materials outside Romania's Palace of Parliament, topping a mark the same nonprofit set a year earlier — and raising money for the country's first pediatric psychiatric hospital.
A US-drafted resolution to extend the mandate of the panel that monitors Iran's reimposed nuclear sanctions failed 11-2 at the Security Council, deepening a dispute over whether the sanctions are even in force.
A moose wandered onto the tracks at Warszawa Centralna on Sunday evening, forcing Poland's rail operator to suspend service on two platforms until crews could tranquilize and relocate the animal.
The vice president said the military campaign to destroy Iran's nuclear and conventional forces is over, with the next stage focused on preventing Tehran from ever rebuilding them.
A 220-pound ram wandered into a concrete pipe in a Somerset village and couldn't back out, so a fire crew improvised with chimney rods and a hearth sheet to slide him free.
A seven-story residential building already damaged by an Israeli strike fell overnight in the Tal al-Hawa district, trapping dozens of Palestinians rescuers say they lack the machinery to save.
A flying stowaway sent passengers ducking and a ScotRail worker reaching for a flag on a service between Gourock and Glasgow Central.
Italian Eurofighters scrambled from Šiauliai brought down an unmanned aircraft that crossed from Belarus, the first time NATO forces have destroyed a drone over Lithuania.
Andrea Marazzi spent nearly a year narrowing a scrapped 1993 Fiat Panda to just 19.76 inches wide, driving shoulder-first into the record books with parts pulled from his family's scrapyard.
Investigators are probing whether an electric vehicle in the cargo hold triggered the blaze that engulfed the MV June Aster off Palawan, killing dozens and leaving 13 still unaccounted for.
As a rough El Niño season strands more Humboldt penguins along Chile's coast, researchers are testing antimicrobial vests to keep the birds from picking their own stitches.
Saudi Arabia halted its East-West pipeline after drones launched from Iraqi territory struck the line near Medina, cutting one of the last major routes for Gulf crude to bypass the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
Leah Shutkever reclaimed a record she first set in 2019 — then broke two more in the same afternoon at Guinness World Records' London headquarters.
The Iran-backed group's biggest territorial gain since a 2022 truce raises the threat to Red Sea shipping and the risk of a full return to war, the UN's Yemen envoy warns.
Nineteen two-man teams competed with picks and shovels in a small Hungarian town, in an annual contest meant to dignify a trade too often left in the shadows.
A jet-propelled drone entered Moldovan airspace and forced a shutdown just as Volodymyr Zelensky's plane prepared to depart, an incident Moldova's ambassador called unlikely to be a coincidence.
Two truckloads of stout worth roughly £205,000 vanished from an industrial estate near Liverpool in a two-stage overnight heist.
Wrapped in plain paper and packed alongside his clothes, the souvenir from a Miami stopover triggered a CITES investigation the moment it hit an X-ray scanner in Turin.