US President Donald Trump has sparked fury by posting a map that seemingly showed Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mexico and the Caribbean as part of the United States.

Dozens of young people yesterday congregated at Nepal’s burnt-out parliament building to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government.

Rescuers in Nepal are focusing on three hydropower project tunnels where they believe dozens of workers could be trapped, authorities said yesterday, two weeks after a devastating flood killed hundreds and left thousands missing in the Himalayan country and in neighbouring China’s Tibet region.

Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks focused US fears on threats from abroad, Americans are now considerably more worried about attacks by domestic extremists than by foreign groups, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv overnight, killing two people and sending smoke billowing above the Ukrainian capital, ending Moscow’s temporary halt to strikes on the city.

Cluster munitions killed or injured more than 1,000 people worldwide in 2025, most of them in Ukraine, a monitor said yesterday, with civilians accounting for the vast majority of victims.

UK and other countries worried about E1 settlement

Police looking for the two thieves who left with two paintings while abandoning two more in the museum garden

Rescuers search hydropower tunnels where hundreds remain unaccounted for

Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, confirmed pensions minister Pat McFadden.

From next week, park managers will be taking their emergency measures even further by banning tourists from the watering hole and other busy areas, to give the animals a breather after months without rain.

Days of fighting near the Red Sea coast have left more than 300 people dead and displaced hundreds of families as the Houthis try to capture land bordering the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Panama has declared a nationwide emergency over El Nino, a phenomenon developing over the Pacific Ocean that is affecting worldwide weather patterns and pushing up global temperatures.

The first flag-adorned trucks trundled across the 1 km (0.6 mile) long two-lane bridge as Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and North Korea's Premier Pak Thae Song tuned in by video link to address workers and government officials from both countries.

Tobacco remains a leading cause of disease globally, the study said, noting many "non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke" were among the estimate total of 8 million people who died in 2023 of smoking-related illnesses

Survival revives hope for 121 workers still believed trapped in tunnels as of Monday

The Tower, which receives nearly seven million visitors a year according to its website, was closed all day on Monday, but will open as normal on Tuesday according to a staff representative

Grief-stricken Nepalis yesterday observed the final day of traditional Hindu mourning for the hundreds killed in a catastrophic flood along the country’s border with China, as the government continued search operations following four remarkable rescues in recent days.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz yesterday ruled out working with the Alternative for Germany after the far-right party surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt but conceded the result had shaken his party “to its very foundations”.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf yesterday warned of strikes against US oil and gas companies in the Middle East following a US threat to “destroy” Iranian tankers.