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Ace Frehley died last month (Invision/AP)

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Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley died from injuries sustained in fall, medics say

Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the US rock band Kiss, died from blunt force injuries to the head sustained after a fall earlier this year, a post-mortem examination has determined.

Actress Sally Kirkland appears at the 75th annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on March 23 2003 (Kim D Johnson/AP)

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Sally Kirkland, US actress who earned Oscar nomination in Anna, dies aged 84

<p>Pakistani security officials stand guard after a powerful car bomb exploded outside a district court in Islamabad, Pakistan (Mohammad Yousuf/AP)</p>

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Suicide bomber kills 12 outside court in Pakistan

Government Shutdown

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US Senate approves bill to end government shutdown

India Car Blast

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Car blast near New Delhi’s historic Red Fort kills at least eight people

Lebanon Libya

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Lebanese authorities release son of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on bail

Trump Syria

Trump hosts Syrian leader al-Sharaa at White House

US President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House, welcoming the once-pariah state into a US-led global coalition to fight the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Waving American flag and flag of LGBT.

US Supreme Court rejects call to overturn decision legalising same-sex marriage

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalised same-sex marriage nationwide.

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Germany Christmas Market Attack

Murder trial of suspect in Christmas market car-ramming attack opens in Germany

A Saudi doctor has gone on trial on murder charges over the car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg last year that left six people dead.

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

France Sarkozy Prison

Ex-French president Sarkozy to be released less than three weeks after beginning five-year sentence

Sarkozy became the first former French head of state in modern times to be put behind bars after his conviction on September 25. He denies wrongdoing

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Russia Ukraine War

Zelenskyy seeks Patriot systems from US to counter Russia’s power grid attacks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he wants to order 25 Patriot air defence systems from the United States, as Ukraine tries to fend off relentless Russian aerial attacks that have brought rolling blackouts across Ukraine on the brink ...

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Philippines Extreme Weather Asia Typhoon

Typhoon Fung-wong blows away from Philippines, leaving eight dead

The typhoon was forecast to head northwest towards Taiwan

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza

Gaza health officials say Israel has handed over more bodies of Palestinians

The Gaza Health Ministry said the Red Cross handed over the bodies on Monday, raising the total number received so far to 315

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Trump Pardons 2020 Election

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed bid to overturn 2020 election

The move underscores Mr Trump’s efforts to continue to rewrite the history of the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

South Korea Martial Law

Ousted South Korean leader Yoon indicted over drone flights

South Korea’s ousted conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol faces more criminal charges as prosecutors alleged that he ordered drone flights over North Korea in a deliberate bid to stoke tensions and justify his plans to declare martial law.

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Government Shutdown

US Senate takes first step towards ending the government shutdown

The move angered many in their caucus who say Americans want them to continue the fight

Mon, 10 Nov, 2025

Mideast Wars

Israel confirms it has received the remains of soldier killed in Gaza in 2014

Israel has confirmed it has received the remains of Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in Gaza in 2014, closing a painful chapter for the country.

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Government Shutdown

Senate leader says potential shutdown deal coming together but no guarantees

The Republican leader in the US senate said a potential deal was “coming together” on the government shutdown but that there was no guarantee it would end an impasse now stretching to 40 days.

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Israel Palestinians

Red Cross receives body Hamas claims is Israeli soldier killed in 2014

Hamas said it found the body of Hadar Goldin in a tunnel in the city of Rafah on Saturday

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Russia Ukraine

Ukraine strikes cut power and heating in two Russian cities

Ukrainian strikes have disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the border, local Russian officials have said.

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Three dead and 15 injured in Tenerife tidal surge

Authorities had warned people of a tidal surge and strong winds, advising them not to walk along coastal paths

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Government Shutdown

Senators work through weekend as US government shutdown enters 40th day

The US government shutdown stretched into its 40th day on Sunday, even as senators stayed in Washington for a gruelling weekend session hoping to find an end to the funding fight that has disrupted flights nationwide, threatened food assistance for ...

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Philippines Extreme Weather Asia Typhoon

More than one million evacuate as Super Typhoon Fung-wong threatens Philippines

Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, has started battering the country’s north-eastern coast ahead of making landfall, knocking out power, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people, and ...

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025

Rockefeller-Center-Christmas-Tree

Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree’s arrival kicks off holiday season in New York

The Rockefeller Centre Christmas tree has been hoisted aloft at its new home in Manhattan, marking the start of New York City’s holiday season. This year’s tree is a 75ft-tall Norway spruce from the town of East Greenbush, a suburb of Albany.

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza

Gaza death toll tops 69,000 as Israel and militants again exchange remains

More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, as both sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire.

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

JD Vance-Interfaith Marriage

JD Vance’s hope his Hindu wife converts to Christianity sparks interfaith debate

Vice President JD Vance’s recent comments that he hopes his Hindu wife would one day convert to Christianity have sparked debate about the challenges facing interfaith couples in the US.

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Pakistan Afghanistan

Pakistan-Afghanistan peace talks fail amid rising border tensions

Tensions have escalated in recent weeks following deadly border fighting that killed dozens of soldiers and civilians

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Russia Ukraine War

Russian drone strike on Ukraine tower block kills two women

Russia fired a total of 458 drones and 45 missiles, including 32 ballistic missiles. Ukrainian forces shot down and neutralised 406 drones and nine missiles.

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

APTOPIX Trump US Hungary

Orban says Trump will not punish Hungary for buying Russian energy

It is an allowance that will keep Russian oil and gas flowing to Hungary in a sign of the close affinity between the two leaders

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Israel Palestinians Gaza

Latest hostage remains returned from Gaza identified as Israeli man

The body was identified as that of Lior Rudaeff, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Louisville UPS Plane Crash

UPS and FedEx grounding MD-11 planes following deadly Kentucky crash

The crash on Tuesday at UPS Worldport in Louisville killed 14 people, including the three pilots on the MD-11 that was headed for Honolulu

Sat, 08 Nov, 2025

Obit James Watson

James Watson, co-discoverer of double-helix shape of DNA, dies aged 97

Watson shared a 1962 Nobel Prize with British scientist Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for discovering that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a double helix

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Afghanistan Pakistan

Pakistan-Afghanistan peace talks deadlocked after renewed border clashes

Peace talks in Istanbul between Pakistan and Afghanistan were at a deadlock, a day after both sides accused each other of mounting border clashes that risked breaching a ceasefire brokered by Qatar.

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Russia Ukraine War Battle for Pokrovsk

Ukraine and Russia look to break deadlock in battle for Pokrovsk

A critical moment for the future of Ukraine’s Donetsk region is approaching as the battle for the city of Pokrovsk reaches a key stage, with Russian and Ukrainian forces so enmeshed that in some cases they are vying for control of the same ...

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

France Louvre

Crown damaged in Louvre heist to be restored in ‘renaissance’

The diamond and emerald-studded crown of Empress Eugenie, which was found damaged outside the Louvre after apparently being dropped during the October 19 robbery, will be restored as a symbol of “renaissance”, the museum’s director Laurence des Cars ...

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Tanzania Election

Dozens charged with treason following election protests in Tanzania

Prosecutors in Tanzania charged dozens of people with treason over their alleged roles in violence surrounding the country’s disputed election.

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Pakistan Afghanistan

‘Afghan civilians killed’ in renewed clashes with Pakistan forces

Four Afghan civilians were killed and five others wounded in an overnight clash between Pakistani and Afghan forces along their shared border, an Afghan official said, in a sign of rising tension between the two as they hold peace talks in Istanbul.

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Vietnam Extreme Weather Asia Typhoon

Typhoon batters Vietnam after leaving 114 dead in Philippines

Typhoon Kalmaegi has made landfall north of Gia Lai province in central Vietnam, lashing the region with fierce winds and torrential rain after leaving more than 100 people dead and dozens missing in the Philippines.

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

OpenAI

Seven lawsuits filed claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and delusions

The lawsuits were filed on Thursday in California state courts and allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter and negligence

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Musk Pay Package

Musk could become first trillionaire as Tesla shareholders approve pay package

Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth one trillion dollars (€866bn) if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade

Fri, 07 Nov, 2025

Boeing Justice Department

Boeing should not face criminal conspiracy charge over crashes – US judge

Boeing will not face a criminal conspiracy charge over two 737 Max jetliner crashes that killed 346 people after a federal judge in Texas granted the government’s request to dismiss the case.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Indonesia Britain Prisoner

British citizens jailed in Bali on drug charges to be repatriated

Two British citizens imprisoned on drug charges in Bali are going to be repatriated within hours in the wake of an agreement between the two nations, an Indonesian government minister has said.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Sudan

Sudan paramilitary group agrees to humanitarian truce

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years, said it has agreed to a humanitarian truce.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Pelosi

Former US speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek re-election

Former US speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives. Ms Pelosi, who has represented San Francisco for nearly 40 years, revealed her decision in a video address to voters.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Somalia Piracy

Attackers firing machine guns board tanker off Somalia coast

Attackers firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades have boarded a tanker carrying gasoline off the coast of Somalia.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Laos Wasp Sting Deaths

American and teenage son die after being stung by wasps in Laos

An American man and his teenage son have died after they were swarmed by wasps while zip-lining at an adventure camp in Laos and stung dozens of times, a hospital official said.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

France Louvre

Louvre urged to speed up security upgrades in audit conducted before heist

French auditors urged the Louvre museum to speed up its security modernisation plans as a priority, in a report conducted before the October 19 jewels heist.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Israel identifies latest hostage remains returned by Hamas

Israel identifies latest hostage remains returned by Hamas

Israeli authorities have confirmed that the remains of a hostage returned the previous day from Gaza are of a Tanzanian agricultural student.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Russia Ukraine War

Ukraine says it has hit a major Russian oil refinery with long-range drones

Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region for the second time in almost three months, Ukraine’s general staff said.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025

Russia Ukraine War

South Africa investigates how 17 men were duped into joining Russia-Ukraine war

The South African government said it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into joining mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war after they asked for help to escape the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025