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More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed as heavy rains triggered mudslides. Authorities say search and rescue efforts are ongoing.

Millions of Americans are concerned about how they will feed their families as a vital food assistance program lapsed for many this weekend amid the ongoing government shutdown.

A woman in Kentucky expecting to open a box full of medicine instead found a pair of human arms and a number of human fingers on ice.

A British man has been discovered deceased between two parked cars at a holiday resort in Costa Blanca, and the police are conducting an investigation.

After walking for days - some for more than two weeks and covering over 400 kilometres - tens of thousands of young Serbians converged on the northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people and sparked the largest anti-corruption protests in the country’s history.

A top FBI official with 27 years standing has reportedly been fired by the bureau after its director, Kash Patel, became enraged by press stories revealing he had used a government jet to travel to see his girlfriend sing the national anthem at a wrestling match.

A pregnant British teenager accused of drug-smuggling has been moved to a mother-and-baby unit in a Georgian prison, her mother said.

Ukraine has deployed special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk in an attempt to push back an intense Russian assault involving thousands of troops, Kyiv’s top commander has said.

Five German mountaineers have died after being hit by an avalanche in northern Italy, rescuers said.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Rio favela that this week suffered the deadliest police operation in Brazilian history to demand an inquiry into the killings and an end to security policies that have turned working-class neighborhoods into "war zones".

FBI Director Kash Patel has announced that the agency thwarted a terrorist attack that was planned to occur in Michigan over the Halloween weekend.

An investigation has been launched into the origin of mounds of human ashes found in the desert near Las Vegas.

Hamas has handed over the remains of three people to Israel, but Israel says they do not belong to any of the hostages.

The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, said he had apologized to the US president, Donald Trump, over an anti-tariff political advertisement and had told the Ontario premier, Doug Ford, not to run it.

A schoolboy was denied boarding a Qatar Airways flight for his family’s £3,000 Thailand holiday - due to a faint ‘sticker mark’ on his passport.

A French court on Friday jailed four Bulgarians for desecrating a Jewish memorial with red handprints last year, in what prosecutors believe may have been foreign interference linked to Russia.

Nexperia, the EU-based automotive chipmaker at the center of a geopolitical dispute, has suspended supplies to its Chinese factory, intensifying a trade war that threatens to halt production at carmakers worldwide.

Harrison Ford has said that Donald Trump’s assault upon measures to address the climate crisis “scares the shit out of me” and makes the US president among the worst criminals in history.

Interpol has rejected a request from Kyrgyz authorities to issue an international warrant for the co-founder of one of the country’s leading independent media outlets, calling the request politically motivated.

In December 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine found Ihor Ratushnyak, who had headed the Tyvriv District Court of Vinnytsia Oblast for many years, guilty of a corruption offence.

An Australian family with millions of online fans is relocating to the UK to avoid their home country’s social media ban for under-16s, which starts in December.

Late Thursday, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the remains were those of Sahar Baruch and Amiram Cooper, who were both captured during the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack that sparked the conflict.

Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis confirmed that the inaugural flight to Iraq’s capital would take place on 16 December.