World News

In a market, in a neighbourhood, in a city like this, the election will be decided.The 'Women's Market', by the river in Wilmington, is a showcase for "female makers" of this port city in North Carolina. November's presidential election will turn on the outcome in this swing state and half a dozen others like it, battlegrounds where the result isn't a foregone conclusion.If Super Tuesday doesn't signal a change in […]

A US Air Force employee has been charged with transmitting classified information about Russia's war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform.David Franklin Slater, 63, who is a retired Army lieutenant colonel assigned to the Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, was arrested on Saturday. The 63-year-old has been charged in Nebraska with illegally disclosing national defence information and conspiring to do so.Prosecutors say Slater attended briefings between […]

It's been a long and agonising 150 days for the families of hostages still inside Gaza, and every hour right now must feel like a lifetime as negotiations for a new ceasefire progress slowly. Liran Berman's brothers, Ziv and Gali, were taken from Kfar Aza on 7 October. The twins are being held separately in Gaza, according to testimony from released hostages who saw them. "They were separated early on, but […]

The US Supreme Court has rejected Colorado state attempts to remove Donald Trump from the ballot for US president.He can now remain on the ballot for president in the state after the court rejected claims he was accountable for the Capitol riots in 2021. On his social media platform after the ruling, Trump wrote: "BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!"Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic president Joe […]

A Ferrari stolen from former Formula One driver Gerhard Berger nearly three decades ago has been recovered by police.Berger was racing in the 1995 San Marino Grand Prix held at Imola in Italy when his Ferrari F512M was stolen alongside another sports car. Police believe the car - a revamped version of Ferrari's iconic Testarossa - was shipped to Japan soon after it was stolen.However, the sports car, painted in […]

In a country like Ukraine, where entire cities are being bludgeoned to the ground, the human ramifications are so vast that they often overwhelm the ability of journalists to describe them. Instead, we rely on numbers - numbers, for example, from the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine which reports that 10,582 civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale attack.We quote statistics from the Office of the […]

US vice president Kamala Harris has said there must be an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza as she called on the Israeli government to do more to increase the flow of aid, with "no excuses".Ms Harris said a six-week ceasefire would get hostages out and get a significant amount of aid into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. She also said there is a "deal on the table" and Hamas "needs to agree […]

A female police officer has been honoured for protecting a woman from a mob accusing her of blasphemy in Pakistan.The woman was in a Lahore restaurant when people outside took offence to the Arabic script on her dress.The word printed on the dress was "halwa", which means "beautiful" in Arabic, but the crowd mistook it for verses from the Koran, the Muslim holy book.Video footage shows them shouting for her […]

A senior Houthi leader has namechecked newly-elected George Galloway in a message blaming Rishi Sunak for the first sinking of a rebel-attacked vessel in the Red Sea.The Belize-registered Rubymar was struck by an anti-ship ballistic missile on 18 February and sunk at around 2.15am on Saturday. Gaza truce talks resume; follow Middle East latestHouthi rebels, who control parts of Yemen, have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea since November […]