North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile, Seoul’s military said, around a week after US President Donald Trump approved South Korea’s plan to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

Republicans in the US Senate have voted down legislation that would have required US President Donald Trump to obtain congressional approval for any military attacks on Venezuela.

US lawmakers wrote to Britain’s disgraced former prince Andrew on Thursday requesting he sit for an interview about his friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

US President Donald Trump expects a US-coordinated international stabilisation force to be on the ground in Gaza “very soon”, following two years of war in the territory between Israel and Hamas.

Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines where the death toll rose to 188.

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday, where the Vatican said they discussed the “urgent need” to help the civilian population in Gaza.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called for sexual harassment to be made a crime nationwide after being groped on the street in an attack that underscored the dangers women in the Latin American country face.

US officials said the scheduled capacity for flights was being cut by 10% in 40 busy air traffic areas nationwide, as the longest government shutdown drags on.

New Zealand’s former deputy police commissioner admitted to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material, which he had stored on his work devices.

The US presented a draft UN Security Council resolution to partner nations aimed at bolstering US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including by greenlighting an international security force, Washington’s mission said.

Democrats swept a trio of races in the first major elections since Donald Trump regained the presidency, elevating a new generation of leaders and giving the beleaguered party a shot of momentum ahead of next year’s congressional elections.

Airports across the US are experiencing major delays and cancellations due to an uptick in absences from air traffic controllers, who are under “immense stress and fatigue” from the ongoing, record-breaking US government shutdown, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Dick Cheney, the former US vice president to George W Bush, has died.

New Yorkers are projected to elect Democrat Zohran Mamdani as mayor, opening a new front in opposition to Donald Trump and raising the specter the president will retaliate against the city where he made his name.

The death toll from a week of flooding and record rains in central Vietnam rose to 40, authorities said, as another powerful storm bore down on the battered region.

Asian e-commerce giant Shein on Tuesday pledged to “cooperate fully” with judicial authorities after French prosecutors opened an investigation over the sale of childlike sex dolls on the platform.

The Israeli military’s top lawyer, Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, has resigned after admitting to leaking footage showing the gang rape of a prisoner at the Sde Teiman prison facility in August 2024.

Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified. With the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth visited South Korea for talks expected to involve Washington’s goal of reshaping the role of US troops in Korea.

UK police have said one person remains in life-threatening condition after the stabbing of 10 passengers on a London-bound train in eastern England, with “terrorism” ruled out, in what officials described as “an isolated incident”.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has announced that it disrupted an alleged “terrorist attack” in the northern state of Michigan.