Iran held annual military drills with Russia on Thursday as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with both the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran's nuclear program fizzle out.

King Charles' troublesome younger brother had already been caught lying about his friendship with the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, making his denials of sexual wrongdoing, including allegedly abusing the late Virginia Giuffre when she was 17.

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalisation and e-Governance, Alexander Proll, on Tuesday underlined the growing scope for bilateral cooperation between India and Austria in the field of artificial intelligence.

In one of the gravest crises to affect the House of Windsor, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office in connection with his close relationship with late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

A close aide of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that jailed former premier Imran Khan was offered a "deal" twice but he declined to accept it.

A small tremor rippled through a remote corner of Central Asia in June 2020. It registered at 2.75 on the seismic scale. The signal was picked up by a monitoring station in Kazakhstan operated by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday called on Giorgia Meloni to stop "commenting on what is happening in other people's countries," after the Italian prime minister expressed shock at the fatal beating of a far-right activist in France.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested Thursday, his 66th birthday, on suspicion of misconduct in public office in an inquiry stemming from his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

German troops are deployed to Erbil as part of an international mission to train local Iraqi forces.

Iran's atomic energy chief Mohammad Eslami said no country can deprive the Islamic republic of its right to nuclear enrichment, after US President Donald Trump again hinted at military action following talks in Geneva.

US President Donald Trump said that Iran must make a "meaningful" deal as a huge American military buildup is taking place in the Middle East.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was celebrating his 66th birthday when eight police officers arrived in unmarked cars and took him into custody.

The family of Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre slammed Britain's former prince Andrew on Thursday following his arrest by UK police, saying "he was never a prince."

A building collapse caused by an explosion in Pakistan's southern megacity of Karachi killed at least 16 people on Thursday, including children, officials said.

Thai police donned a lion dance costume during this week's Lunar New Year festivities to arrest a suspect accused of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefacts, police said Thursday.

King Charles said Thursday the British royal family will wholeheartedly support police investigation into ex-royal Andrew, his younger brother, and links to the Epstein Files.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former Duke of York and brother of King Charles, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Russia called for restraint on Thursday amid growing tensions over a possible US attack on Iran, and as Moscow and Tehran staged naval drills that the Kremlin said were scheduled and should not be a cause for alarm.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Thursday for all Polish citizens to leave Iran, after US President Donald Trump again hinted at military action against the Islamic republic.

Ex-royal Prince Andrew has been arrested from the family's estate in Sandringham on suspicion of misconduct in public office, multiple British media reports said Thursday afternoon.