Israeli police have sealed off the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian attacker who killed seven people and injured three others outside a synagogue. The move was one of several punitive measures approved by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet overnight.

The Memphis police chief disbanded the city’s so-called Scorpion unit on Saturday, citing a “cloud of dishonour” from newly released video that showed some of its officers beating Tyre Nichols to death after stopping the black driver.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a series of punitive steps against the Palestinians, including plans to beef up Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, in response to two shooting attacks that killed seven Israelis and ...

The incident in the Palestinian area of Silwan comes a day after another attacker killed seven people outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in the city since 2008.

His appearance in early-voting states marks the first campaign appearances since he announced his latest run more than two months ago.

"Like so many, I was outraged and deeply pained to see the horrific video of the beating that resulted in Tyre Nichols' death," Biden said in a statement.

Mr Pavel, 61, will succeed controversy-courting Milos Zeman in the largely ceremonial but prestigious post. His election is expected to cement the country’s Western orientation following Zeman’s decade in office.

Families and friends of a growing number of Europeans imprisoned in Iran have gathered in Paris to call for their release.

Russia and North Korea have accused the West of prolonging and taking a direct role in the war by sending Kyiv increasingly sophisticated weapons.

The protesters, many waving coloured flags with the symbol of environmental group Extinction Rebellion and one holding a sign saying, in Dutch, “This is a dead end road".

Francis first made the comments in an interview on January 24 with The Associated Press, in which he declared that laws criminalising homosexuality were “unjust” and that “being homosexual is not a crime”.

A Palestinian gunman opened fire in east Jerusalem on Saturday, wounding at least two people less than a day after another attacker killed seven outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in the city since 2008.

Irish actor Kevin Ryan said Sands was a “smart guy” and “very strong-willed”, with lots of experience to tackle the treacherous conditions

Authorities said on Saturday that three people had died and at least one was missing after record levels of rainfall pounded New Zealand’s largest city, causing widespread disruption.

Video showing five Memphis officers beating a black man was made public on Friday, one day after they were charged with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols.

Former vice president Mike Pence has said he takes “full responsibility” after classified documents were found at his Indiana home.

A dress worn by Princess Diana has sold for over half a million euro in an auction at Sotheby’s New York salesroom.

Publicly released video shows the husband of former US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting with an attacker for control of a hammer moments before he was struck during a brutal attack in the couple’s home last year.

A gunman has killed five people and wounded three others in a shooting near a synagogue in east Jerusalem in one of the deadliest attacks on Israelis in years, according to Israel’s national rescue service.

A gunman has opened fire near a synagogue in east Jerusalem, wounding 10 people before he was shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said.

Palestinians marched in anger on Friday as they buried the last of 10 people killed by Israeli fire a day earlier, but the likelihood of a major conflagration appeared to ebb after the deadliest Israeli raid in two decades.

Turkey has summoned the Danish ambassador and accused Denmark of endorsing a “hate crime” after an anti-Islam activist burned two copies of Islam’s holy book in a solitary protest in Copenhagen.

A man has died after being crushed by a telescopic urinal in central London. Emergency services were called to the scene at Cambridge Circus in the West End just after 1pm on Friday to reports of an injured man.

The world has enough rare earth minerals and other critical raw materials to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy to produce electricity and limit global warming, according to a study.

Protests have been held in several predominantly Muslim countries to denounce the recent desecration of Islam’s holy book by far-right activists in Sweden and the Netherlands.

The bombardment followed announcements by the United States and Germany of plans to ship powerful tanks to help Ukraine defend itself

The global chemical weapons watchdog has said its investigators found “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.

While Alzheimer’s affects the formation of new brain cells in the hippocampus during the early stages of the disease, previous research has only been able to study neurogenesis in its later stages through post-mortem examinations

A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed the Azerbaijan embassy in Iran’s capital, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards, authorities have said.

The study, published in the journal Environment International, is the first to examine the prevalence of microplastics in surgical environments

Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant instructed the military to prepare for new strikes in the Gaza Strip “if necessary”

A US student who is one of the world’s foremost “speedcubers”, a person capable of quickly solving a Rubik’s Cube, has said playing the violin has aided his success.

In all, some 1.1 million people were killed at the vast complex before it was liberated by Soviet troops on January 27 1945

Hancock had the Conservative Party whip suspended for taking time off to appear on the ITV reality show

Of the five rockets fired at Israel, three were intercepted, one fell in an open area and another fell short inside Gaza, the military said

Five fired Memphis police officers have been charged with murder and other crimes over the death of a black driver three days after a traffic stop.

Hundreds of climate and environmental groups have criticised the nomination of an oil executive to oversee the United Nations climate negotiations at Cop28 this year.

A transgender woman convicted of raping two women is being moved to a male prison, hours after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced she would not be held in Scotland’s only all-female jail.

The former Tory party leader said that the protocol was 'one of the least well-done negotiations in modern history'

A dummy of Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior was hung from a motorway bridge hours before the team’s match against Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey.

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians and wounded several others in a large-scale raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said.

An asteroid the size of a small truck will pass by Earth tonight, making one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded.Asteroid 2023 BU will zoom over the southern tip of South America at about 12.27am on Friday, only 2,200 miles above ...

Egypt has unveiled dozens of new archaeological discoveries, including two ancient tombs, at a Pharaonic necropolis near Cairo.

Two outfits worn by Shakira during a Super Bowl half-time performance, her handwritten lyrics and her heavily crystallised electric guitar are among the items going on display at a Los Angeles museum.

Israeli forces have killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, during a raid in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said. It marks one of the deadliest days in the territory for years.