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Britain’s biggest drugmaker, AstraZeneca, is understood to be in discussions to take over its US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal that would create a near-$400bn (£300bn) pharmaceutical group.

Texas-based Iranian filmmaker Mazyar Mahan’s ‘Exile Echoes’ won awards across multiple film festivals in 2025, by far his most successful release to date. The film features Iranian women recounting tales of resistance and escape from repression by Iran’s morality police over sepia-tinted montages.

Motorists in the UK are warned petrol prices are likely to hit 160p per litre from Friday, a new record since the start of the Iran war.

Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.

The U.S. government bought millions of dollars worth of fuel for its consulate in northern Iraq from a company whose local subcontractor on the deal was owned by a man described by a U.S. official as a front in a company for two blacklisted Lebanese brothers, documents show.

South Korean authorities ordered civilians to evacuate on Tuesday after a suspected white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul.

A new US policy allows hundreds of thousands of pending asylum cases to be sent directly to immigration judges as the administration seeks to reduce a 1.4 million backlog.

Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.

Last year was the deadliest for antisemitic attacks outside of Israel in more than 30 years, according to a new report, with 20 people being killed in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

President Donald Trump is facing online scrutiny after a “Tic Tac moment” during the funeral service of Senator Lindsey Graham became one of the event’s most widely shared clips. Videos circulating on X showed Trump passing a box of Tic Tac to Vice President JD Vance while seated in the front row.

A lipreader has revealed what she claims Volodymyr Zelensky told Benjamin Netanyahu during a tense exchange in Washington.

Between 2015 and 2022, a criminal group used dozens of pharmacies across the United States to bill medical insurance companies a staggering $2 billion for fraudulent prescriptions.

The powerful artificial intelligence models from OpenAI that went rogue and mounted an unprecedented, autonomous cyberattack earlier this month spent more than four days loose on the internet orchestrating the hack, according to a new analysis from the platform that was breached.

Polish prosecutors have formally requested the temporary arrest and extradition of former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro from the U.S. so he could face criminal charges over alleged abuse of power and mismanagement of public funds.

The United States began reviewing its military presence in Europe on Monday, officials said, after US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth told his NATO counterparts last month that Washington was planning such an analysis.

Medical giant Johnson & Johnson has offered to pay up to $5.5billion to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits in the US that claim its talcum powder causes ovarian cancer.

Donald Trump has been ordered to hand over a trove of secretive financial records within 10 days in the latest twist in his explosive lawsuit with the BBC.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan ’have a target on their backs’ as the public wish for them to be killed in jail following their arrests over alleged child [sexual intercourse] offences.

In a private ceremony on Sept. 17, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood at a podium inside the National Archives building in Washington, D.C., and praised a Florida nonprofit for what he called a singular achievement in American education.

Audio recordings that former President Joe Biden fought for years to keep private have now been released.