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A plane has crashed into a busy road in Texas – leaving at least one person dead as passengers were seen leaping from the blazing wreckage.

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province on Tuesday, causing intense shaking for over a minute.

The captain of a Russian shadow fleet vessel which was intercepted by British troops in the English Channel will appear in court charged with breaching sanctions.

A B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff in Southern California’s Mojave Desert and burst into flames.

The ‘first line of defence’ against a deadly strain of Ebola has collapsed, Oxfam has said.

Ukrainian drones have breached newly strengthened air defences in Moscow and seriously damaged an oil refinery just 10 miles from the Kremlin in Russia.

Four people were killed at a World Heritage site in Kyiv after Vladimir Putin launched a wave of missiles in a massive aerial attack.

Around 11 skydivers and their pilot have ‘perished’ in a plane crash close to a rural airport.

Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the US-Iran peace deal as a “hugely important step forward in ending the war” as he stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain “fully and permanently open”.

Donald Trump turns 80 today – and, true to form, he has marked the occasion with a bang.

A woman was attacked by an 11ft white shark while swimming off a popular beach near Sydney.

Emergency services were called to Coogee Beach in the east of Sydney, Australia’s largest city, in the morning on reports that the 35-year-old woman had been bitten by a large shark about 30 meters (100 feet) from the shore.

Russia has begun construction on a new military base eerily close to Finland’s eastern border for the first time since the USSR collapsed.

Trying to settle on a Memorandum of Understanding to end the US-Iran war has first been complicated by the Hezbollah threat to Israel.

The energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been a serious challenge for the transition to renewable energy sources.

The US military has disabled an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that it accused of violating an American blockade by "attempting to transport oil from Iran".

Terrified Russian President Vladimir Putin is so worried about being assassinated he has moved his two elder daughters into his £1.4 billion guarded forest complex.

Russia plans to build 72 Mi-8MTV-1 helicopters at the Kazan Aircraft Plant within two years, including 37 by the end of 2026, according to meeting minutes reviewed by Dallas.

German airports were fully or partially closed 116 times in 2025 due to unidentified drone flights, with at least 226 drone sightings recorded during the year, according to a report by Der Spiegel citing calculations by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

The chief prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, has been suspended after a disciplinary process triggered by sexual abuse allegations against him reached a conclusion.

Amnesty International’s recent report highlights that Cambodia’s widely publicized crackdown on online scam operations largely left the majority of known compounds unaddressed and failed to rescue people trapped in forced labor, torture, and slavery.

UAE authorities are seeking a fine of nearly 4 billion rubles from crypto entrepreneur Arut Nazaryan, who has already spent almost six months in prison.