An Israeli airstrike killed a man, his wife and their six-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinian health officials said as talks to advance the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal faltered.

Russia and Ukraine stepped up their battle over the Black Sea and key trade routes yesterday, with Moscow killing three people in an attack on the Ukrainian port city of Odesa and Kyiv’s drone forces striking Russian shipping.

A record-smashing heat wave was spreading Tuesday from the Mountain West toward the eastern United States and Canada, placing more than 100 million people under heat alerts.

A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed “Gus” sold Tuesday for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York, making it the most valuable dinosaur fossil bought at auction after a 10-minute battle between seven bidders.

Top management and port CEOs told to report directly to Bin Sulayem

Blaze tore through Rong Beer Na Lad Phrao restaurant and bar on Sunday night

Seven civilians, one paramilitary personnel and one police officer were killed

Kuwait's military said it intercepted attack drones

It added that a number of personnel were also wounded and promised a "decisive response" to the attack.

Albanese says Australia must write its own AI rules to safeguard national interests

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said today it had targeted what it described as command-and-control, logistics, fuel and military equipment facilities belonging to the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

Analysts fear another key global shipping route could come under pressure

Trump warns power plants and bridges will be targeted next week unless Tehran agrees to negotiate, as fighting spreads across the Gulf

Archaeologists uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb near the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, authorities said on Sunday, the latest in a series of discoveries that officials hope will boost tourism.

Iranian authorities yesterday hanged two people convicted of being part of the Islamic State group, the judiciary’s news website reported.

Iran fired missiles at Jordan and Bahrain yesterday after the United States launched a five-hour attack on Iranian targets, stepping up a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz that has pushed up oil prices to four-week highs.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers shot a driver to death in a coastal town of Maine on Monday, less than a week after an ICE agent in Houston, Texas, shot and killed a man in a traffic stop during a deportation crackdown there.

A former senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an unusual direct threat against US President Donald Trump, saying the Islamic Republic is capable of harming him even inside the White House.

AI-generated images and videos will have to be marked as such under new rules on the use of social media during elections in Japan, the internal affairs minister said yesterday.

Wildfires raging in a forest south of Paris have devoured more land overnight, firefighters said yesterday, ahead of France’s national day celebrations.