Myanmar's military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, early results cited by state media showed, in the first vote since a 2021 coup.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has hit out at the New York Times (NYT) over its report that the space agency's largest library at the Goddard Space Flight Center will be permanently closing, and books will be tossed away.
According to investigators, Christian Sturdivant (18) had planned to attack people at a grocery store and a Burger King fast-food restaurant.
The last message Laetitia Brodard received from her son Arthur came just minutes into 2026, as he was celebrating New Year's Eve with friends in the Swiss ski resort town Crans-Montana.
Less than 24 hours after throngs of ecstatic supporters poured into Manhattan for his history-making inauguration, Zohran Mamdani began his first full day of work with a routine familiar to many New Yorkers.
The chief prosecutor said that "everything suggests that the fire started from sparklers or Bengal candles" waved high near the ceiling of the Le Constellation bar.
Jessica Moretti was there at the time of the disaster and had suffered minor injuries but had been able to return home.
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake rattled Mexico's capital and a tourist hotspot on the Pacific coast on Friday, killing at least two people and causing moderate damage in a small town near the epicenter.
Iran has been rocked this week by protests that started in Tehran and have spread to other cities, with at least six people killed in clashes with security forces.
Yemen's UAE-backed separatists announced a two-year transition to independence Friday despite reporting 20 deaths in airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition trying to roll back their weeks-long offensive across the country's south.
Elon Musk's Grok on Friday said it was scrambling to fix flaws in the artificial intelligence tool after users claimed it turned pictures of children or women into erotic images.
A head-on collision between a bus and a truck left at least 11 people dead on Friday in southern Brazil, the country's Federal Highway Police said in a statement.
US President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged duelling threats Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries.
Iran's former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi thanked US President Donald Trump for his support of the Iranian people, saying his message had given hope to those protesting against the country's leadership.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said he intended to replace his defence minister and had offered the position to his current minister of digital transformation, who is aged just 34.
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced eight journalists and social media commentators on Friday to life imprisonment in absentia after convicting them of terrorism-related offences.
An 18-year-old was arrested in North Carolina for plotting an ISIS-inspired attack at a local grocery store on New Year's Eve.
A turboprop passenger aircraft of Buddha Air veered off the runway while landing in Nepal's Bhadrapur today, the airline said.
The FBI said on Friday it foiled a potential ISIS-inspired attack in North Carolina planned for New Year's Eve and arrested an 18-year-old plotting it.
Israeli former hostage Romi Gonen has said in a television interview that four Hamas militants sexually assaulted her during her 15 months in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
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Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry invites Yemen's southern factions to attend a 'dialogue' in Riyadh.
Search in undisclosed location followed the latest US military strike on alleged drug smuggling boats.
Letter to UN chief, UNSC comes after Trump says US will intervene if Tehran violently suppresses protests.
Guterres says pending ban targets groups 'indispensable to life-saving' work, undermines ceasefire progress.
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Decline in sales comes amid outrage of Elon Musk's political forays, end in US electric vehicle tax breaks.
Millions of Americans face a sharp increase in their insurance premiums.
Prosecutors say Brian Cole confessed to planting bomb while parroting Trump's false claims 2020 election was stolen.
Israeli government hits out at newly sworn-in New York City mayor, falsely calling him a 'Muslim Brotherhood Islamist'.
The outbreak comes after the US charted its highest number of annual measles cases in more than three decades in 2025.
Qatar, Turkiye and six other countries urge 'unimpeded' humanitarian access to Gaza as Israel cracks down on aid groups.
Austria's Katharina Liensberger to miss Milano Cortina Winter Games after knee injury in alpine skiing training fall.
Protests are intensifying in Iran as an economic crisis fuels anger over soaring prices and falling living standards.
Actress Angelina Jolie visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, speaking with volunteers delivering aid to Gaza.
Officials announced the suspect has been charged with attempting to provide 'material support' for 'terrorism'.
Saudi Arabia bombed separatist STC positions in Yemen amid a push to take back control from the UAE-backed group.
Mass protests are spreading across Iran, but what's driving them and where could they lead? Here's what we know.
Families face agonising wait as investigators work to identify at least 40 people killed, many others wounded in blaze.
Crash kills two men and injures British boxer Anthony Joshua in Nigeria.
Court sentences journalists in absentia over alleged links to violent unrest after ex-PM Imran Khan's May 2023 arrest.
Military intelligence chief credited with series of daring operations against Russia since it launched its invasion.
Government files suggest former UK prime minister pressured officials to prevent soldiers being tried in civil courts.
Revelations about Trump's use of the blood thinner emerge during a newspaper interview.
Saudi-backed coalition forces in Yemen have launched air strikes targeting southern separatists.