Russell Brand, the British comedian, actor and broadcaster, was convicted on Thursday of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, bringing to a close a three-week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London. The jury of eight…
Hong Kong’s High Court handed democracy campaigner Joshua Wong an additional 10-year prison term on Thursday, convicting him of conspiring to collude with foreign forces under the national security law Beijing imposed on the city in 2020. Wong, who turns…
Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente announced his resignation in Congress on Tuesday, hours after presenting a package of emergency aid and safety measures in response to the October 28 high-speed train collision near Urda, south of Madrid, that killed 69…
At least six passenger aircraft were searched across Europe on Tuesday after a string of bomb threats triggered emergency diversions, a temporary airport closure and the scrambling of military jets, with authorities in Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Italy ultimately finding…
President Donald Trump used his final major rally before the November 3 midterm elections to declare the contest the most consequential of a generation, while simultaneously preparing his supporters for the possibility that Republicans could lose. Speaking at the Lincoln…
On October 21, 2026, the PHP Foundation disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in the core engine of PHP, the open-source language that underpins a huge share of the web. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and nicknamed “php2shell,” both are remote code…
Binance has halted deposits and withdrawals across its platform while it investigates a security incident that the exchange says affected roughly $6.3 billion in assets, a figure that would make it the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. The company said…
Christine Lagarde will end her tenure as president of the European Central Bank on 7 February 2027, cutting short a mandate that had years left to run. The ECB confirmed the decision in a statement, saying Lagarde had personally notified…
An online campaign called "Gen Z regelt" — commonly translated as "Gen Z sorts it" — has urged supporters to take to the streets in 23 German cities this Saturday, a plan that has unsettled politicians in Berlin. The effort…
Senegal will open the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics on October’s final day, an edition that could be the last Summer Youth Games and the first in Africa. About 2,700 athletes aged 15 to 17 will compete in 153 events across…
An attacker armed with two knives struck a police officer guarding Israel’s embassy in Belgrade shortly after midnight on Wednesday, lightly wounding him before the officer shot him dead, Serbia’s interior minister said. The wounded officer, a member of the…
A collision involving two high-speed trains on the Madrid-Andalusia line near Urda, in Toledo province, killed no fewer than ten people and injured others on Wednesday morning, according to the Castilla-La Mancha regional government. The crash happened shortly after nine…
Six divers are working in the chill waters of the Baltic near Dahme, a little coastal town in the north of Germany, to rebuild an underwater meadow one shoot at a time. With roots left whole, conservationists lift young seagrass…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded 10,060 Ebola cases and 4,887 deaths linked to an outbreak first detected in mid-May. The cause is the Bundibugyo virus. No licensed vaccine and no targeted medicine have been approved for it. Africa…
Jordan’s government said on Tuesday that civilians were among those killed when its air force struck alleged Islamic State targets in southern Syria the night before, an admission that came as Syrian officials offered a different casualty count and accused…
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, on Tuesday criticized the leaders of Finland and Norway for holding a joint telephone call with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, about how to end the war in Ukraine. The conversation took place before peace talks…
Washington has quietly begun re-engaging with Myanmar’s military-backed administration, according to the source account, through two rounds of discussions since September involving Michael Vance, a State Department representative. American diplomats reportedly met Myanmar officials in Naypyitaw and later in Tokyo…
Reports from Brazil say Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, former President Jair Bolsonaro’s oldest son, has flown to the United States after losing Sunday’s presidential runoff. The Supreme Court had ordered him to give up his passports while investigations proceed, and the…
France international Kylian Mbappe has apologised after a video apparently showed him describing Mao Zedong as a “Chinese dictator,” a remark that cost the Real Madrid forward sponsorship deals with three Chinese companies and led the country’s state television to…
Israel’s armed campaign in Hebron, a city in the occupied West Bank, drew strong criticism on Monday from the UN secretary-general and the UN human rights commissioner. The operation was launched in response to a Friday exchange of fire that…
