You might just be able to afford an expensive Valentine’s rose for your beloved as the Month of Love starts with a 65c/l drop in the petrol price.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party is likely to score a landslide victory in next week’s lower house election, a survey by the Asahi newspaper showed, heightening the chance the country will continue to pursue big spending and tax cuts.

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration head Bryan Bedford said his agency accepted findings by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board that a series of systemic failures by the FAA led to a devastating mid-air collision that killed 67 people last year.

Cut off from family or urgently requiring hospital care, Palestinians stranded on each side of Gaza’s Rafah crossing waited with growing desperation for Monday’s reopening of the border as a delayed part of October’s ceasefire deal.

Former British government minister Peter Mandelson said he had resigned as a member of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party after new reports of his ties with late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

South Africa’s expulsion of the Israeli chargé d’affaires and Israel’s reciprocal response emphasise a collapse in relations. These ‘persona non grata’ declarations are symptoms of an ideological war of attrition over the Gaza conflict.

Frustrated farmers are calling for the state to urgently allow foot-and-mouth disease vaccines to be acquired and administered privately. DA leader John Steenhuisen has hit back, urging unity and warning that litigation will ‘derail’ the national vaccination strategy by diverting critical resources.

Hosted by Trevor Noah, the ceremony unfolded at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, drawing music’s biggest names onto a red carpet that reflected the industry’s power and glamour. These photographs capture the mood, and some of the moments, and the personalities that shaped the night.