The strikes were the fourth on Beirut in less than a week. The escalation comes after a U.S. envoy traveled to the region this week in an attempt to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to keep testing its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in combat as Ukraine works to develop ways to counter the weapon.

More than 30 people have been killed and dozens more wounded after Shiite Muslims on Friday attacked a Sunni-dominated market and set it on fire in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in northwestern Pakistan. Sporadic fighting has regularly broken out between the two groups in the area in recent months, leading to more than 150 deaths.

Attack marks fourth Israeli airstrike on central Beirut this week alone

Air pollution is currently the most significant environmental health risk in Iran, accounting for 12% of deaths in the country, according to the head of the Air Pollution Research Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

The British government has announced it will comply with its obligations under domestic and international law after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

COLOMBO (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the third review of Sri Lanka's $2.9 billion bailout on Saturday but warned that the South Asian economy remains vulnerable. The country still needs to complete a $12.5 billion bondholder debt restructuring and a $10 billion debt rework with bilateral creditors including Japan, China and ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.

Six foreign tourists have died after drinking contaminated alcohol in a remote Laos party town.

A coyote and two black bears were filmed by a trail camera as they walked and leaped through the snow in South Lake Tahoe, California, earlier this month.Footage posted to Instagram by California wildlife photographer Toogee Sielsch shows the animals traversing the snow, and one of the bears climbing a tree.Sielsch wrote on Instagram that the video showed a ...

The Princess of Wales has invited the young survivors to her televised festive event at Westminster Abbey on December 6.

The strikes hit the Basta neighbourhood early on Saturday

Negotiations at Cop29 in Baku, Azerbaijan were scheduled to finish on Friday evening but a final deal on climate finance remains elusive.

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghanas capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used and low-quality apparel imported from the West.

Club football is back with a bang as AC Milan are up against Juventus this evening, hoping to keep their Scudetto dream alive. Currently, they are hanging on by a thread and for this clash, there are ...

Winds of up to 68mph have been recorded and 13cm of snow has landed in some parts of the country on Saturday morning.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Koreas government said Saturday it will not attend a memorial service near Japans Sado Island Gold Mines due to disagreements with Tokyo over the event, which stirred longstanding tensions over the abuse of Korean forced laborers at the site before the end of World War II.

The party and its allies are however looking at a defeat in the mining state of Jharkhand.

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Blenheim Palace is closing the light trial around its gardens, Christmas market and ice rink.

Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least four people and injured dozens in central Beirut, as diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire. (AP Video by Ali Sharafeddine)

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) The United Nations' annual climate talks pushed into overtime Saturday as negotiators pressed on to get a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change.