UN human rights chief Volker Turk said yesterday his agency was “in survival mode” due to funding shortfalls, as he launched a $400 million appeal to tackle global rights crises in 2026.

Pakistan’s military said yesterday that it had concluded a week-long security operation against separatists in Balochistan, killing 216 militants in targeted offensives across the troubled southwestern province.

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that Cuba risks humanitarian “collapse” if it is denied oil, his spokesman said Wednesday as the United States threatens to cut energy supplies as part of a pressure campaign.

US President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that a “softer touch” may be needed on immigration, as his administration said 700 federal officers would be pulled from Minnesota but that mass deportations would not stop.

The digital currency dropped as low as $69,821.18 before climbing back above $70,000

The first permanent Pokemon theme park opened in Tokyo on Thursday, featuring cute rides and a woodland area where visitors can try and "catch 'em all".

News outlets have struggled for years to maintain a sustainable business model after the internet upended the economics of journalism.

It is among the world's top destinations for plastic waste.

The New START agreement will end Thursday, formally releasing both Moscow and Washington from a raft of restrictions on their nuclear arsenals.

Alphabet said it will nearly double its investments this year in the technology arms race gripping Silicon Valley

Trump on Monday launched a US strategic stockpile of critical minerals, called Project Vault, backed by $10 billion in seed funding from the US Export-Import Bank and $2 billion in private funding.

700 federal officers would be pulled from Minnesota but that mass deportations would not stop

US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have agreed to work “closely” to maintain the key Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean following recent criticism by Trump of UK action, the prime minister’s office said Tuesday.

Cuba registered a record low of zero degrees Tuesday, the first time freezing point has been documented on the Caribbean island, according to its Institute of Meteorology.

Gunmen have killed at least 162 people in Kwara state in west-central Nigeria, authorities said yesterday, with the toll expected to rise.

China’s President Xi Jinping and Russian leader Vladimir Putin hailed their countries’ “stabilising” economic, political and security alliance in the face of “turbulent” times globally, as they spoke via video call yesterday.

Moscow yesterday demanded Kyiv accept its conditions to end the four-year-war and vowed to press on with its invasion otherwise, as negotiations between the two sides opened in Abu Dhabi.

Pakistan’s security forces have killed almost 200 separatist insurgents in southwestern Balochistan province since they launched a wave of attacks over the weekend, a security official said yesterday, taking the overall death toll past 250.

US President Donald Trump made a fresh plea Tuesday for Americans to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, even as it left a prominent British politician facing a criminal probe on the other side of the Atlantic.

A US fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that approached an American aircraft carrier in the Middle East on Tuesday, Washington said, as renewed tensions on the high seas overshadowed plans for nuclear talks.