At least 27 people, mostly children, were killed after a Bangladeshi fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka, a government official said.

Populist ideals are gaining traction in Japan, spurred by right-wing politicians running rampant elsewhere railing against “elitism”, “globalism” and immigration.

Israeli tank shelling killed at least 12 Palestinians and wounded dozens others in a tent encampment in western Gaza City north of the enclave, local health authorities said.

A passenger jet performed an “aggressive manoeuvre” to avoid a mid-air collision with a US military bomber over the state of North Dakota, according to recorded audio of the commercial pilot.

Russia on Monday downplayed the chances of a breakthrough in peace talks with Ukraine, saying the two sides held “diametrically” opposed positions, hours after it launched a massive drone and missile barrage on Kyiv.

Harvard University will urge a federal judge on Monday to order US President Donald Trump’s administration to restore about $2.5 billion in cancelled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Monday accused French prosecutors of launching a “politically motivated criminal investigation” that threatens its users’ free speech, denying all allegations and saying it would not comply with the probe.

At least 16 people, mostly students, were killed Monday when a training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed into a school campus in the capital Dhaka, the government said.

At the main hospital in south Syria’s Sweida city, dozens of bodies are still waiting to be identified as the death count of days of sectarian clashes continues to rise.

At least 28 people have died and more than a dozen are missing after a tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam’s famed Ha Long Bay capsized on Saturday, state media said.

An “unknown vehicle” drove into a crowd in Hollywood in the early hours of Saturday, injuring 28 people, the Los Angeles Fire Department has said, without providing information on the cause of the incident.

US President Donald Trump has sued media magnate Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal for at least $10 billion over publication of a bombshell article on his friendship with the infamous alleged sex trafficker of underage girls, Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump attempted on Friday to control the storm triggered by a bombshell report on his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, ordering the Justice Department to seek the release of testimony from the prosecution of the late, alleged sex-trafficker-to-the-famous.

The EU on Friday adopted a sweeping new package of sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine war, looking to pile more pressure on the Kremlin by lowering a price cap for Moscow’s oil exports.

An Israeli strike on Gaza’s only Catholic church killed three people on Thursday, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, as Israel said it “never targets” religious sites and regretted any harm to civilians.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa accused Israel of trying to fracture Syria and promised to protect its Druze minority on Thursday after US intervention to help achieve a truce in fighting between government forces and Druze fighters.

Israel bombed the Syrian army’s headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday after warning the Islamist-led government to leave the country’s Druze minority alone, as authorities announced a ceasefire in the community’s southern heartland after deadly sectarian clashes.