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Africa

  • The Voice Nigeria singer Ifunanya Nwangene

    Death of Nigerian singer highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ snakebite fatalities

    Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenoms
  • An old man looking like an orange waxwork holds up paper with a signature while people stand around him applauding

    Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says

  • Hooded, bearded young man seen at night-time

    Handful of sick and wounded Palestinians allowed through Rafah crossing on first day

  • People wading along a flooded street.

    Weather tracker: Cyclone Fytia in Madagascar kills several people and floods homes

  • People with bowls reach out as a box is passed out by an aid worker at a camp.

    International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds

Americas

  • A large electronic display posting the odds of Donald Trump or Kamala Harris winning the 2024 US election

    The people betting on catastrophic world events – podcast

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  • Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president

    Colombian president and Trump put aside insults for amicable White House meeting

  • woman in navy blue jacket speaks

    Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status

  • a woman

    Mexico’s president pledges to send aid to Cuba despite US efforts to cut oil access

  • Instagram photo of Júnior Pena

    Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE

Asia Pacific

  • Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

    Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy becomes mascot for year of the horse in China

    Mandarin transliteration of character’s name regarded as auspicious, prompting wave of memes and fan art
  • A door handle on a red Tesla Model Y.

    China to ban hidden car door handles on all EVs over crash safety concerns

  • A rare earths mine in California

    Trump unveils $12bn critical minerals stockpile scheme in apparent move to counter China’s dominance

  • An aerial view of the MP Materials rare-earth mining and processing site in Mountain Pass, California

    US, UK, EU, Australia and more to meet to discuss critical minerals alliance

  • Eiko Kawasaki and Kenji Fukuda give a press conference

    Living hell of North Korea’s ‘paradise on Earth’ scheme back in spotlight in Japan

Australia

  • Jacob Hersant outside court.

    Jacob Hersant becomes first Australian jailed for doing Nazi salute after losing appeal

    Judge says neo-Nazi’s offending outside Melbourne court was ‘contemptuous’ and Hersant ‘relished’ the opportunity to do it
  • Sussan Ley

    Sussan Ley may fast-track permanent Liberal-only frontbench as Coalition reunion hopes fade

  • Ebikes with large tyres are popular in Sydney’s beach-side suburbs.

    Police investigate illegal riding on Sydney Harbour Bridge – as it happened

  • Angela and Todd James, parents of Canadian backpacker Piper James, arrive at Brisbane airport

    Parents of Piper James visit K’gari to farewell daughter and ‘walk where she last walked’ as dingo cull continues

  • File photo of a hospital ward

    Doctor previously banned from complex surgery in NSW given senior clinical safety role with Queensland Health

Europe

  • A view of the Kyiv skyline after a massive Russian drone and missile attack

    Live
    Ukraine-Russia talks: negotiators gather in Abu Dhabi in wake of ‘massive’ strikes on Kyiv – Europe live

    Both sides downplay chances of immediate breakthrough in US-brokered talks as western allies reportedly weigh new defence pact
  • Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez gives a speech about social media bans at the World Governments Summit in Dubai.

    Elon Musk calls Spanish PM a ‘tyrant’ over plan to ban under-16s from social media and curb hateful content

  • Migration Greece CollisionGreek coast guard officers carry out rescue operations at a port on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, Greece, late Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, after a collision between a migrant speedboat and a coast guard patrol vessel killed multiple people, authorities said. (Pantelis Fykaris/Politischios.gr via AP)

    Collision between Greek coastguard patrol and migrant boat kills 14

  • Marine Le Pen

    French prosecutors ask appeal court to keep ban on Marine Le Pen running for office

  • A person holding a mobile phone displaying the 'X' logo in front of Elon Musk's page on X

    French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

Middle East

  • A man carries a small body in white funeral shrouds

    Israeli strikes kill 18 in Gaza and patient crossings at Rafah halted, Palestinian officials say

    Four children among dead as restrictions on evacuations put in place days after reopening of crossing to Egypt
  • Fighter jet on aircraft carrier landing strip with ground crew member in foreground

    US shoots down Iranian drone flying towards aircraft carrier, navy says

  • person wearing navy suit and striped tie flips through papers while sitting at desk

    Human Rights Watch researchers resign after report on Palestinian right of return blocked

  • Marwan Barghouti

    Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’, to publish book from prison

  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

    Iran’s president says Tehran ready to pursue ‘fair’ talks with US

South and Central Asia

  • Two men standing in front of burnt-out vehicles look at debris on the ground, including a riot shield

    Pakistan targets Balochistan separatists after ‘unprecedented’ assaults

    Officials say calm restored to province day after dozens killed in suicide and gun attacks in at least 10 cities
  • Fighters from the People’s Defense Forces

    Inside Myanmar’s five-year armed resistance – a photo essay

  • India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav walks off the field after losing his wicket during the recent fourth T20 international between India and New Zealand in Visakhapatnam.

    Breakdown in cricket relations with Bangladesh rings alarm bells for India’s Olympic bid

  • Military chief Min Aung Hlaing visits a polling station during the third and final phase of Myanmar's general election in Mandalay on 25 January, 2026.

    Junta-backed party secures sweeping victory in Myanmar’s ‘sham’ election

  • An electoral official holding up a ballot paper

    Myanmar military proxy expected to win landslide in widely denounced election

UK

  • Peter Mandelson pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in a photo released in a tranche of documents in the US.

    Live
    Streeting says Labour members feel ‘bitterly’ betrayed by Mandelson revelations in Epstein scandal – UK politics live

    Health secretary says ‘You can see the outrage across the political spectrum and from people up and down our country’
  • New York stock exchange with banners on front and pedestrians with umbrellas walking past on wet day

    Pinterest sacks two engineers for creating software to identify fired workers

  • Mandelson with Donald Trump in the Oval Office

    Starmer orders release of files relating to Mandelson US ambassador decision

  • The green and white liveried Southern train derailed near Selhurst depot in south London

    Rail firm issues ‘do not travel’ alert after ‘multiple incidents’ across south-east England

  • Gordon Brown visits the Queen to seek the dissolution of Parliament.epa02105594 With his Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling (foreground left), Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (foreground second from left) and Labour Party Chairman and Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman (extreme right) looking on, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Britain 06 April 2010. Brown had earlier called on Queen Elizabeth II to seek the dissolution of Parliament 06 April, officially kicking off a general election campaign. Voting will take place May 6th EPA/ANDY RAIN

    A whiff of familiarity in Mandelson’s 2009 collusion with the banks

US

  • a man and a women in formalwear.

    Woody Allen’s wife, Soon-Yi Previn, told Epstein that #MeToo movement ‘went too far’

    She also smeared teen victim of former congressman Anthony Weiner as ‘despicable and disgusting’ , files show
  • Donald Trump, surrounded by Republican lawmakers with a red baseball cap reading 'America is Back!' on the desk

    Trump scolds CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins for not smiling as she asks about Epstein abuse survivors – as it happened

  • People in courtroom

    Charlie Kirk killing: key Utah prosecutor denies conflict of interest

  • Two men sit side by side, one with his arm around the other's shoulders and the second holding his brother's knee.

    Congressional Democrats vow justice for US citizens harmed by immigration agents: ‘You deserve peace’

  • Man

    Trump adviser Stephen Miran quits White House role to stay on at Fed

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