London’s second UK & Ireland TikTok Awards celebrated the evolving creator landscape with a calm, reflective ceremony honoring diverse digital storytelling.
The Pentagon launches Operation Southern Spear, a maritime campaign targeting narco-terror networks in the Western Hemisphere, reshaping U.S. security strategy in the region.
A bus collided with a truck and plunged into a ravine in southern Peru’s Arequipa region, killing at least 37 people and injuring dozens in one of the country’s worst road accidents.
A diamond brooch once owned by Napoleon, lost during his retreat from Waterloo and held by the Prussian royal family for over 200 years, has sold for around $4.4 million at Sotheby’s Geneva—far exceeding its pre-sale estimate and underscoring the powerful allure of historic provenance.
Two of Ukraine’s most senior ministers — in justice and energy — have tendered their resignations amid a wide-ranging corruption investigation tied to a $100 million kickback scheme in the energy sector, highlighting pressure on Kyiv’s government and its trust with aid partners.
Brazil’s Supreme Court panel rejects Bolsonaro’s appeal, leaving his 27-year sentence intact — a moment where institutions attempt to prove they still have steel.
President's Ahmed visit to Washington took an unexpected turn as he played basketball with U.S. generals, in a rare gesture of soft diplomacy.
From 2004 to the mid-2010s, the CIA conducted a secret operation in southern Afghanistan dispersing billions of specially bred poppy seeds with extremely low alkaloid content in an effort to undermine the heroin trade. The initiative operated without broad U.S. or Afghan oversight, faced steep logistical and financial hurdles, and produced only modest long-term impact.
A Turkish military C-130 cargo plane returning from Azerbaijan crashed in eastern Georgia near the Azerbaijan border on 11 November 2025, killing all 20 on board. Investigations are underway.
David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for *Flesh*, a restrained, introspective novel exploring the quiet beauty and decay of human life.
Once a rap mogul, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs now serves as a chaplain’s assistant in prison, seeking redemption through faith and quiet service.
Michael Jackson becomes the first artist with Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits in six consecutive decades, proving his enduring cultural legacy.
Donald Trump says a new U.S.–India trade deal is nearly finalized, signaling renewed economic alignment between the two democracies.
A newly completed bridge in Southwest China collapsed into a mountainside and river after nearby terrain shifts and a landslide. Thankfully, no casualties have been reported.
Southern Water apologises after plastic biobeads from a treatment plant spill into Sussex waters, triggering environmental alarm and cleanup efforts
A 385-pound black bear stranded in a Pennsylvania neighborhood was safely tranquilized and lowered from a tree in a delicate rescue led by the Cetronia Fire Company.
A worker in Jiangsu was fired for taking 16,000 steps while on sick leave; the court later ruled the dismissal illegal
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck off Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan, triggering a tsunami advisory that was lifted after about three hours. Small waves were recorded; officials warn of possible aftershocks.
More than one million Filipinos evacuated as Super Typhoon Fung‑Wong made landfall in the Philippines with winds of 185 km/h and gusts to 230 km/h, leaving at least two dead as it barreled through Luzon.
Israel confirms it has received the remains of an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza in 2014, potentially bringing a decade-long search to a close and giving a bereaved family the start of the closure they’ve long awaited.
A prison riot in Machala, Ecuador, left four inmates dead and more than 30 injured amid a re-organising of inmates and rising gang control. The incident underscores a broader crisis of overcrowding, corruption and weakened state authority in Ecuador’s detention system.
A decade after the Paris Agreement, global warming continues to accelerate, progress is real but insufficient, and the goal of restricting warming to 1.5 °C remains out of reach.
Dubai reached #1 as the world’s most attractive city for high-income residents, signaling a shift in where global wealth prefers to live.
England is facing one of its worst droughts in decades, exposing how the climate crisis can quietly destabilize even the rainiest imagined nations.