SUNDAY, 01 FEBRUARY 2026, 05:36
More than 100 political prisoners were freed in Venezuela, where detainees are slowly being released under pressure from the US, the non-governmental organisation Foro Penal said.
The incident happened in Salamanca, a city particularly subject to gang-related violence.
A ferry with more than 350 people onboard sank in choppy seas off the southern Philippines, leaving at least 15 dead and 28 still missing, the coast guard said.
France is set to debate a proposed social media ban for those under 15 years old, as the country’s president backs stricter rules and a high school phone ban.
China announced two of its top generals are under investigation, including the country’s most senior general. Analysts suspect it’s a political purge by Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
A landmark trial beginning this week in Los Angeles could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to addict children.
Israel has said it will allow a “limited reopening” of Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt when the operation to locate the body of the last remaining Israeli captive in the Palestinian territory is completed.
The return of the remaining hostage, Ran Gvili, has been widely seen as removing the remaining obstacle to proceeding with the U.S.-brokered ceasefire’s second phase.
Rina Gonoi, a former soldier, was sexually assaulted while serving in Japan’s Self-Defense Forces.
Former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton issued pointed calls for America to stand up and defend their values after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by immigration agents that Donald Trump blamed on Democratic “chaos”.
Second fatal shooting an ‘inflection point’ says Tim Walz as protests spread over Saturday’s shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday, reaching the “high forties” in Victoria and South Australia.
The twin cubs’ departure will leave Japan without any pandas for the first time since 1972.
As Trump points to Russia and China near Greenland, experts say the biggest Russian and Chinese activity is elsewhere in the Arctic.
BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.
The interior minister condemned the attack, which police say they are investigating.
The party backed by the ruling generals is expected to win a landslide in a country gripped by fear and civil war.
Video footage of the moment immigration agents shot dead a 37-year-old nurse in Minneapolis on Saturday appears to contradict Trump administration claims the man was a violent aggressor who sought to “massacre” federal law enforcement officials.
Cheers erupted from a street-level crowd as Alex Honnold reached the top of the spire of the 508-meter (1,667-foot) tower, about 90 minutes after he started.
Tully covered some of the defining moments in India’s history in a career that spanned decades.
Protesters chanted Alex Pretti’s name after he became the second person this month to be shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis.