Moscow launched a “kamikaze” drone attack yesterday, hitting key infrastructure in and around Kyiv, hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus, fuelling fears he will pressure his ally to join a new offensive on Ukraine.

Five people were killed and another wounded Sunday in a shooting in the suburbs of the Canadian city of Toronto, police said.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte yesterday apologised on behalf of the Dutch State for its historical role in slavery, and for consequences that he acknowledged continue into the present day.

Twitter users voted in a poll for Elon Musk to step down as chief executive of the social media platform, in a backlash against the billionaire less than two months after he took over.

The original animatronic model used to bring big-eyed alien E.T. to life in Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi film sold this weekend for a whopping $2.6 million, according to auction organizers.

Countries approved a historic deal to reverse decades of environmental destruction threatening the world’s species and ecosystems at a marathon UN biodiversity summit early yesterday.

Five people were killed and another wounded Sunday in a shooting in the suburbs of the Canadian city of Toronto, police said.

Thai military frigates and helicopters were on Monday searching for 31 sailors after a naval vessel sank, with dozens of others having been hauled from choppy waters.

Film-maker Steven Spielberg has said he truly regrets the “decimation of the shark population” following the success of his 1975 film “Jaws”. Spielberg’s Oscar-winning thriller told the story of a man-eating great white shark that attacked a US seaside town, prompting a rise in sports fishing across America.

Celebrities and rights groups yesterday called on Iran to free the actor Taraneh Alidoosti, one of the most prominent figures yet arrested in its three-month crackdown on protests.

European Union negotiators reached a political deal yesterday to overhaul the bloc’s carbon market, cutting planet-heating emissions faster and imposing new CO2 costs on fuels used in road transport and buildings from 2027.

Heating has been fully restored to Kyiv after the latest Russian bombardment that targeted water and power infrastructure, the capital’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said yesterday.

Tunisia plunged into political uncertainty yesterday as its main opposition alliance called on President Kais Saied to “leave immediately”, a day after voters overwhelming snubbed elections for a neutered parliament.

<B>Only 8.8 percent of Tunisian voters cast ballots in Saturday's parliamentary elections, authorities announced, after most political parties boycotted the vote as a charade aimed at shoring up President Kais Saied's power.</B>.The provisional turnout figure is below November's 9.8 percen

An oil tanker overturned and caught fire in Afghanistan's high-altitude Salang pass, killing 12 people and injuring dozens, officials said today.

At least seven members of Iraq's federal police were killed Sunday during an attack near Kirkuk in the country's north, two police sources told AFP, blaming Islamic State group jihadists.

A freak wave killed three swimmers and seriously injured 17 others Saturday at a popular beach in South Africa's southeastern city of Durban, the emergency services said.."There was a freak wave that washed some people to sea, three have drowned and 17 people have been taken to hospital,"

Iran arrested a prominent actor Saturday after she voiced support for the three-month-old protest movement triggered by the death of a woman in custody, the judiciary said Saturday..Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, was arrested "by order of the judicial authority" as she "did not provide documentati

Polls yesterday opened in a Tunisian parliamentary election that will tighten President Kais Saied’s grip on power, capping what his opponents denounce as a march to one-man rule over a country that shook off dictatorship in 2011.

Climate change and habitat degradation will cause extinctions that cascade through communities of animals and plants and drive dramatic biodiversity loss, according to new research published on Friday.