All news for 2025-01-04

In the heart of São Paulo, an area as big as London’s Soho stands as a harrowing symbol of Brazil’s war on drugs for more than 30 years.

A 14-year-old boy is fighting for his life in hospital with stab wounds and another teenager, 15, has been arrested.

A man has died after falling 230ft (70m) fall from a mountain ridge in front of shocked climbers.

Crowds gather outside South Korean presidential residence where suspended leader is protected by security officers.

Footage of patients surging through hospitals in China has been seen online as a illness is said to have overwhelmed medics, with a spike in health woes now being investigated.

Aubrey Plaza’s husband and director Jeff Baena has died aged 47. The filmmaker was best known for Life After Beth and The Little Hours.

A man in his 30s after falling from a block of flats in east London.

A drunken pest, a misfortune, a pity, an approachable guy when sober — just some of the descriptions given to one of Ireland’s most prolific offenders...

Itooka was born in 1908 in Osaka and and had four children along with five grandchildren. Japan has over 95,000 people aged 100 or older.

Hungary has protected two Kremlin-linked oligarchs from European Union (EU) sanctions. These individuals, who control the Riga Electrical Machinery Factory (RER)...

Campaigners say US president-elect’s call to ‘get rid of windmills’ is based on North Sea interests of oil and gas firms.

A highly decorated Army soldier who fatally shot himself in a Tesla Cybertruck just before it blew up outside the Trump hotel...

Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people.

Ex-health worker who exposed paedophile ring says billionaire’s triggering of row ignores plight of survivors.

President-elect Donald Trump is set to be sentenced in his hush money case just days before he returns to the White House.