Trump's Wednesday tariff announcement shook global stock markets to their core, wiping out $5 trillion in stock market value for S&P 500 companies by Friday's close

A strong 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Saturday morning off the coast of Papua New Guinea's New Britain Island, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said

The trade gaps, said the White House, were driven by an "absence of reciprocity" in relationships and other policies like "exorbitant value-added taxes"

Top US diplomat calls on other rich countries to chip in

"Trade must not become another source of instability. It should serve development and global growth," said UNCTAD secretary-general

President Donald Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell US assets of popular short video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law

Brand, who was once one of Britain's most high-profile broadcasters and is the former husband of US pop singer Katy Perry, denied the allegations when they first emerged in 2023 and said he had never had non-consensual sex

US President Donald Trump said he wanted “direct talks” with Tehran on a nuclear deal, after he threatened to bomb Iran if it develops nuclear weapons.

A landmine-hunting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record by sniffing out more than 100 mines and pieces of unexploded ordnance, a charity said Friday.

Israel announced the launch of a new ground offensive in Gaza City yesterday, with rescuers saying military operations had killed at least 30 people across the Palestinian territory since dawn.

London’s Metropolitan Police yesterday said it had charged comedian and actor Russell Brand with rape and a number of other sexual offences.

A Russian ballistic missile strike on Volodymyr Zelensky’s home city of Kryvyi Rig killed 14 people yesterday, including six children, the Ukrainian leader said.

US President Donald Trump unveiled the first “gold card”, a residency permit sold for $5 million each, aboard Air Force One on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump yesterday extended the deadline for TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the United States, allowing 75 more days to find a solution.

Japan and Taiwan promised billions in investment. Britain offered an invitation from the king.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court yesterday unanimously ruled to remove impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol from office over his disastrous martial law declaration, triggering fresh elections after months of political turmoil.

Myanmar’s military has reportedly conducted dozens of attacks since the devastating earthquake hit the country, including at least 16 since a temporary truce was announced this week, the UN said Friday.

At least 30 people were killed when a northern South Sudanese town was briefly overrun by an armed youth group, a local official said Thursday, following a cattle raid.

A fresh bout of suspected intercommunal violence in Nigeria’s north-central Plateau state earlier this week has killed more than 40 people, officials told AFP on Friday.

Protesters displayed a banner calling Myanmar’s junta chief a “murderer” as he joined a regional summit in Bangkok yesterday, a week after a huge earthquake killed thousands and left desperate survivors pleading for food and shelter.