It is thought to have been dropped there by an international drug-smuggling syndicate.

China says it was smeared in US President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, which repeatedly mentioned competition between the two countries.

The episode first aired on television in October. It is not clear when it was removed from the Hong Kong streaming service

The Church said it would launch a new project on the matter in the spring to decide whether to propose changes or not.

It was the nation’s fifth execution this year, following a previous execution in Missouri, two in Texas and one in Oklahoma. All were by lethal injection.

“We could hear their voices, they were calling for help,” said Ali Silo, whose two relatives could not be saved in the Turkish town of Nurdag

The 80-year-old almost defiantly ignored the bitter divisions between Republicans and Democrats and his own low standing with the public in his speech.

The trial of Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a Kazakh-born US citizen, was the latest in a series of cases against people accused of leaving their homelands around the world to join the militants in combat.

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog emphasised the urgency of resuscitating diplomatic efforts to limit Iran’s nuclear program, saying the situation could quickly worsen if negotiations fail.

The US navy has used underwater drones, warships and inflatable vessels to gather all of the pieces of the massive Chinese spy balloon a fighter jet shot down off the coast of South Carolina.

President Joe Biden is ready to offer a reassuring assessment of the nation’s condition rather than roll out flashy policy proposals as he delivers his second State of the Union address on Tuesday night seeking to overcome pessimism in the country ...

Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands say they plan to provide Ukraine with at least 100 refurbished Leopard 1 battle tanks.

Japanese LGBTQ people have condemned a discriminatory remark by a senior aide of prime minister Fumio Kishida, demanding his government enact laws to ban discrimination against sexual minorities, legalise same-sex marriage and guarantee equal rights ...

Residents in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying baby whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble of a five-story apartment building.

Image showing father from Kahramanmaraş region comes as death toll from Syria and Turkey quake pushes past 5,000 mark

A court in Moscow upheld a verdict to revoke the license of a top independent newspaper that has been critical of the Kremlin for years.

Survivors cried out for help from within mountains of debris as first responders contended with rain and snow.

A Japanese court rejected a bid by children of Hiroshima atomic bombing survivors seeking government support for medical costs, saying the hereditary impact of radiation exposure is still unknown.

Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf was buried on Tuesday in his family’s hometown, the southern port city of Karachi, a day after a special plane transported his body from the United Arab Emirates where he died at the weekend.

Supermarkets Tesco and Lidl have begun a High Court fight over the use of a yellow circle logo. German discount chain Lidl says a trademark, and copyright, has been infringed, while Tesco has made a counterclaim.

The disgraced 48-year-old Pc, who was described as a “monster” and “evil” by some of his dozen victims, carried out a “catalogue of violent and brutal” sex attacks between 2003 and 2020.

Zoo operator the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) has shared the images of the two joeys born to mothers Kalari and Inala.

An overnight rescue operation successfully retrieved a 19-month-old girl from a dry artesian well shaft on Tuesday — 18 hours after she fell into the hole at a cassava farm in northern Thailand.

Russian shelling hit more civilian targets in Ukraine, starting a fire in a hospital, before what Kyiv authorities suspect is an impending new offensive by Russia around the anniversary of its invasion.

Public transportation, schools and electricity, oil and gas supplies were disrupted in France as demonstrators were taking to the streets for a third round of nationwide strikes and protests against the government’s pension reform plans.

Both pilots received only minor injuries even though the plane was engulfed in flames and smoke upon impact.

The site was blocked on Friday by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, after a deadline expired that Pakistan gave to Wikipedia to remove the controversial content.

The meeting came amid signs North Korea is planning a military parade that may be an occasion to showcase the latest hardware from his growing nuclear weapons and missile programme that is brewing concern for the United States and its allies in Asia.

Lottery officials said in a statement early on Tuesday that a single ticket matched all six numbers and was worth 754.6 US dollars million (€701m).

The United Nations chief has warned the world could be facing a wider war as the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine approaches.

The results of her analysis, indicate the bear was an adult male, probably older and in poor physical health.

A six-year-old boy who shot and wounded his teacher had constantly sworn at staff, chased students and tried to whip them with his belt, and once choked another teacher “until she couldn’t breathe”, a lawyer has said.

Bourbon tourism reached new heights last year in Kentucky, where visitors flocked to distilleries as the whiskey-making attractions shook off any pandemic-era hangover. Attendance at distilleries along the Kentucky Bourbon Trail exceeded 2.

A special plane transporting the body of Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf from the United Arab Emirates arrived in Karachi amid tight security, immigration officials said.

Rescue workers and civilians passed chunks of concrete to each other across mountains of rubble in a desperate search for survivors trapped by a devastating earthquake.

An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a New York nursing home but found to be breathing three hours later at the funeral home where she had been taken.

Lubomir Strougal, a Czech communist-era leader who served as prime minister for a record 18 years has died at the age of 98. His death was confirmed by former Communist Party politician Jiri Dolejs on Monday.

Campaigners are fighting to halt the execution of a man who killed his girlfriend and her three children.

Pakistan’s media regulator blocked Wikipedia services in the country for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing claimed blasphemous content from the site. Critics denounced Islamabad’s action, saying it was a blow to digital rights.

Two nuns told they ‘disobeyed the church’ by trying to stay at seven-centuries-old site in Ravello

Countries have rushed to dispatch aid, personnel and equipment to help rescue efforts in earthquake-stricken areas of Turkey and Syria.

A climber died after falling “a considerable distance” from a Snowdonia mountain ridge at the weekend. He was climbing the 3,200ft Y Gribin with two others on Saturday when a handhold broke, the Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation (Ovmro) said.

Hundreds of people are still believed to be trapped under rubble, and the death toll is expected to rise

With thousands injured the death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers search through rubble in cities and towns across the area

The 75-year-old Indian-born British author suffered severe, life-changing injuries including losing sight in one eye following the violent attack which occurred ahead of him delivering a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in August.

The National Enquirer, the scandal-plagued tabloid that engaged in “catch-and-kill” practices to bury stories about Donald Trump during his US presidential campaign, has been sold.