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- Top Maine election official defends booting Trump off ballot
- Argentina pulls out of plans to join Brics bloc
- China appoints Dong Jun as new defence minister
- Odesa church: Clergyman narrowly avoids roof collapse after Russian attack
- Northern Ethiopia facing famine, says official
- Ukraine war: At least 28 killed in biggest Russian bombardment yet
- Israel Gaza: Palestinian girl shows bombed remains of house next door
- Plane stowaway in serious condition in France
- German and Dutch authorities fear repeat of NYE firework violence
- U.N. Says Israeli Forces Fired on Aid Convoy in Central Gaza
- Russian influencer Ivleeva fined for hosting 'almost naked' party
- South Africa files 'genocide' case against Israel at ICJ
- Gaza: Baby pulled alive from rubble after Israeli air strike on Rafah
- Israeli Military Releases New Details on Killing of 3 Hostages
- Palestinians in Southern Gaza Face Dangers Where They Seek Shelter
- Turkish Super Cup final postponed amid 'T-shirt row'
- Ex-Air India scrap plane gets stuck under bridge in Bihar
- South Africa Accuses Israel of Genocide in U.N. Court
- The worshippers caught between China and Taiwan
- Why 2023 was an uncomfortable year for the West
- Sam Bankman-Fried: Convicted 'Crypto King' will not face second trial
- Wolves win against farmers as Swiss cull put on hold
- Austrian government launches repair scheme for electronic goods
- Africa's year in pictures 2023: Fans, snow and checkmate
- 'Like a wow!' and other Indian social media hits of 2023
- Surfers head for giant waves in California as storm hits
- Where Was the Israeli Military When Hamas Attacked?
- How Greggs, a Super Affordable Bakery Chain, Became a U.K. Culinary Icon
- Surf's up in California as massive waves crash Mavericks Beach
- Ukraine war: Missile and drone attack launched against Russia
- Italy’s Raucous Holiday Classics Are Not Your Standard Hallmark Movies
- As War Rages in Ukraine, Denmark Turns an Office Park Back Into an Arsenal
- Dominic Thiem's Brisbane International victory interrupted by venomous snake on court
- Kai Zhuang: Police in Utah say Chinese exchange student kidnapped
- Canada Letter: Restaurants That Are Local Institutions, According to Readers
- Israel-Hamas War: Israel Claims to Destroy Hide-Out Used by Hamas Leader Linked to Oct. 7 Attacks
- Words of Wisdom
- 23 amazing sport photos from 2023
- 'Shooting star' streaks through the night sky
- Biden Administration Again Bypasses Congress for Weapons Sale to Israel
- How a Russian Barrage Evaded Ukraine’s Defenses to Wreak Deadly Chaos
- Ukrainian Missile Attack on a Russian City Kills at Least 14
- Dashcam footage shows strike hit Russian city
- Israel-Gaza war: Displaced Gazans 'living in the open', UN says
- Paula Abdul sues Nigel Lythgoe over alleged sexual assault
- Mia Schem, an Israeli Hostage, Shares Harrowing Details of Gaza Captivity
- Conflict in Israel and Gaza, in Photos
- Defying U.S. Pressure, Israel Deepens Gaza Assault
- Vinesh Phogat: Top Indian wrestler returns medals over alleged sexual abuse
- Bangladesh sees dramatic rise in lightning deaths linked to climate change
- Inside Russia as war in Ukraine grinds into new year
- The Pavilion: The Pakistani cricket show that charmed Indians in 2023
- Sahara migrant smuggling: Double-edged sword of overturning Niger's ban
- Venice to ban large tourist groups and loudspeakers
- Mali: UN peacekeeping mission ends after decade
- Ukraine war: Russia launches fresh drone assault on Kyiv and Kharkiv
- North Korea says it will launch three new spy satellites in 2024
- The World in Stories: 13 Favorite Dispatches From 2023
- Ukraine Intensifies Guerrilla Tactics, Targeting Trains
- US warship in Red Sea shoots down two Houthi missiles from Yemen
- Inmates of Chile’s Largest Prison Find Solace in Caring for Stray Cats
- At These Schools, Arab and Jewish Students Share Their Feelings, With Each Other
- Los gatos conquistaron la prisión. Luego, el corazón de los reclusos
- DR Congo election: Results due with President Felix Tshisekedi leading
- U.S. Helicopters Sink 3 Houthi Boats in Red Sea, Pentagon Says
- Israel-Hamas War: Netanyahu Vows ‘Absolute Victory’ Over Hamas
- John Pilger: Campaigning Australian journalist dies
- Russia Attacks Kharkiv With Missiles and Drones
- Benjamin Kiplagat: Ugandan athlete stabbed to death in Kenya - reports
- Vladimir Putin makes little mention of Ukraine in new year speech
- Kai Zhuang: Police in Utah say student feared kidnapped may be 'camping'
- Félix Tshisekedi: DR Congo's re-elected president
- Congo’s Incumbent President Declared Victor in Election Count Marred by Delays and Protests
- Queen of Denmark announces abdication live on TV
- New Year celebrations: How the world is welcoming 2024
- Burundi’s President Says Gay People Should Be Stoned
- Young Gazans hope for peace in new year as war with Israel goes on
- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Step Down
- Spanish football fan held in Tehran released, Iran says
- Monday Briefing: Ukraine Steps Up Sabotage
- Queen Margrethe II: Danish monarch's 52-year reign in pictures
- Conflict in Israel and Gaza, in Photos
- Crown Prince Frederik: What do we know about the next king of Denmark?
- Bangladesh: The election that has turned into a one-woman show
- The Nigerian teens clueless on computers but aiming to reboot
- U.S. Helicopters Sink 3 Houthi Boats in Red Sea, Pentagon Says
- Israel says war in Gaza expected to continue throughout 2024
- Ukraine war: Zelensky promises more Ukraine-made weapons in new year speech
- Disney's earliest Mickey and Minnie Mouse enter public domain as US copyright expires
- How to Start the New Year? Keep the Sea Goddess Happy.
- Half of Gazans Are at Risk of Starving, U.N. Warns
- Taiwan and China will 'surely be reunified' says Xi in New Year's Eve address
- Monday Briefing
- Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, Triggering Tsunami Warnings
- Tsunami warning in Japan after strong earthquake
- XpoSat: India launches space mission to study black holes
- They Said ‘I Do’ in a Moscow Prison
- In Pictures: New Year 2024 celebrations from around the world
- Japan Earthquake: Tsunami Warnings Issued in Japan After Powerful Earthquake
- Alarm in Kanazawa as city rocked by earthquake
- Moment quake hits Japan coastal town
- Fukushima Disaster Still Looms Large in Japan Years After Quake
- Naomi Osaka: Former world number one wins first match of comeback at Brisbane International
- Disney's Coco voice actor Ana Ofelia Murguía dies aged 90
- Israel Plans to Withdraw Some Troops From Gaza
- Muhammad Yunus: Nobel laureate sentenced to jail in Bangladesh
- Putin vows to 'intensify' attacks against Ukraine military targets
- Israel Supreme Court strikes down judicial reforms
- Putin Vows to Keep Up Bombardment After a Russian City Is Hit
- Pope Raises Concerns about Church in Nicaragua
- Ethiopia signs agreement with Somaliland paving way to sea access
- Japan earthquake: Powerful tremors destroy buildings and trigger evacuations
- Powerful Earthquake Hits Japan, and Officials Warn of Aftershocks
- Israel Plans to Withdraw Some Troops From Gaza
- Tuesday Briefing: Israel’s Top Court Rejects Move to Limit It
- Robert Pether: Australian jailed in Iraq reaches 1,000-day milestone
- Israel’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Judiciary Law
- Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead
- Lee Jae-myung: South Korea opposition leader stabbed in Busan.
- Lee Jae-myung, South Korea Opposition Leader, Is Stabbed
- How Japan learned to live with earthquakes
- Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong mogul pleads not guilty to national security crimes
- China’s BYD closer to taking Tesla's electric car top spot
- Tuesday Briefing
- Ukraine warns of Russian missile strikes as it repels drones
- Missiles Hammer Kyiv in Large-Scale Attack on Ukraine
- Melissa Hoskins' family 'utterly devastated' by death of Olympic cyclist
- What Israel’s Supreme Court Justices Wrote in Their Landmark Ruling
- Thailand and China to waive visa requirements from March
- Watch: First pictures of plane on fire on Tokyo runway
- Plane Explodes in Flames While Landing at Airport in Tokyo
- Japan Earthquake Death Toll Rises to at Least 48
- Jimmy Lai Pleads Not Guilty to Hong Kong Security Law Charges
- Indiana’s Plan to Pipe In Groundwater for Microchip-Making Draws Fire
- Kai Zhuang: Chinese teen found alive in US after 'cyber kidnapping'
- Italian outcry as MP Pozzolo's gun wounds man at New Year's Eve party
- Mickey Mouse horror film unveiled as copyright ends
- Israel-Hamas War: Early Signs Suggest Israel May Avoid Wartime Showdown Over Court Ruling
- Jeffrey Epstein list: What to expect from court filings unsealed in New York
- Somalia calls Ethiopia-Somaliland agreement act of aggression
- Passengers clamber down emergency slide after Japan plane fire
- Japan plane fire: Dramatic videos show how plane is overcome by fire at Haneda airport
- Watch: BBC visits earthquake region in Japan
- How Japan’s powerful earthquakes have shifted the land
- Ukraine war: Grim new year for Ukrainians under shadow of Russian attack
- Spain's Hermoso testifies World Cup kiss was not consensual
- Supreme Court Ruling Adds to Questions Over Kind of State Israel Will Be
- Ethiopia-Somaliland Port Deal Has the Horn of Africa on Edge
- Denmark’s Prince Frederik Represents a New Generation of Monarchs
- Japan earthquake: Fires hit quake zone as rescuers race to reach survivors
- Somaliland Deal to Grant Ethiopia Red Sea Access Draws Condemnation
- Conflict in Israel and Gaza, in Photos
- Israel to fight South Africa's Gaza genocide claim in court
- Japan Airlines: Hundreds survive after plane bursts into flames on Tokyo runway
- Japan jet crash: Passengers describe chaos inside flight 516
- Turkey detains 34 on suspicion of spying for Israel
- Spanish Soccer Star Testifies About Unwanted Kiss
- Who is Saleh al-Arouri, the Senior Hamas Leader Killed in Beirut?
- Japan Airlines: How the passenger plane burst into flames
- Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut blast
- Claudine Gay resigns as Harvard University president
- Wednesday Briefing: Beirut Blast Kills Senior Hamas Leader
- Maureen Flavin Sweeney, Whose Weather Report Delayed D-Day, Dies at 100
- Netanyahu Allies Signal Pause in Campaign to Rein In Judges
- Who was Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut?
- Kai Zhuang: Cyber kidnapping in US illustrates growing crime trend
- Trump challenges his 'arbitrary' removal from Maine's ballot
- Bangladesh elections: Why India matters across the border
- Ukraine war: They sang of victory - then a Russian rocket struck
- US Senator Bob Menendez accused of accepting gifts from Qatar
- BBC Sound Of 2024: Superstar DJ Peggy Gou breaks out of the dance bubble
- DR Congo elections: How Félix Tshisekedi won chaotic poll
- Deputy Hamas Leader, Saleh al-Arouri, Is Killed in Lebanon
- Deputy Hamas Leader Is Killed in Lebanon as Fears Grow of a Wider War
- Harvard's Claudine Gay a casualty of campus culture wars
- Ukraine war: Blasts reported in Russian city Belgorod and occupied Crimea
- Delhi temperature: North India shivers under the grip of cold wave
- Wednesday Briefing
- Dismissals Point to Xi JInping’s Quiet Shake-Up of China’s Military
- Japan jet crash: Why escape from plane inferno succeeded
- Red Sea attacks could push up prices, UK firms warn
- Japan Airlines plane shown burned out after fire in aerial footage
- Junior Doctors at N.H.S. Begin 6-Day Strike
- ‘It’s State Propaganda’: Ukrainians Shun TV News as War Drags on
- Nigel Lythgoe sued again over alleged sexual abuse - US media
- Watch: Buildings still smouldering in quake-hit Majima
- ‘World’s Oldest Pyramid’? A Study’s Claim Troubles Archaeologists
- ‘It’s State Propaganda’: Ukrainians Shun TV News as War Drags on
- Attack on Opposition Leader Raises Alarms in Divided South Korea
- Israel-Hamas War: Killing of Senior Hamas Leader Raises Fears of Broader War
- In pictures: Nordic states gripped by winter freeze
- Hamas blames Israel for the death of a senior official in Lebanon.
- Order and Calm Eased Evacuation from Burning Japan Airlines Jet
- Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri's assassination sparks wider war fears
- Twin blasts near Iran general Qasem Soleimani's tomb kill 50 - state media
- Mexico police search for migrants kidnapped off coach
- Dozens Reported Killed in Iran in Blasts Near Qassim Suleimani’s Tomb
- Tetris: US teenager becomes first to beat video game
- Ukraine war: What Russia's escalating air attacks mean
- Ernest Bai Koroma: Sierra Leone ex-president charged with treason over attempted coup
- Japan earthquake: Eerie search for bodies near epicentre
- Japan Airlines: Coastguard plane not cleared for take-off, transcripts show
- Leader’s Killing Is a Blow, but Not a Knockout, for Hamas
- Al-Arouri’s killing is a blow to Hamas, though likely not a debilitating one, analysts say.
- Ukraine and Russia in 'biggest prisoner swap' so far
- Suspects held over alleged Argentina parcel plot
- Brazil jails: Hundreds of inmates use Christmas release to escape
- A Swedish Teenager Was on Japan Airlines Flight 516. Here’s His Story.
- Who Was the Iranian General Qassim Suleimani?
- First Case of Lethal Bird Flu in Polar Bears Reported in Alaska
- Francoise Bornet: Woman in Robert Doisneau’s Paris kiss photo dies aged 93
- Russia and Ukraine Exchange Record Number of P.O.W.s
- Israel Says It Dismantled a Hamas Tunnel Under Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
- Saleh al-Arouri: Hamas leader's death 'won't go unpunished', says Hezbollah chief
- Menendez Case Puts Focus on Qatar’s Push to Turn Wealth Into Influence
- Thursday Briefing: Blasts in Iran Kill Dozens
- Israel Supreme Court Delivers Setback to Campaign to Remove Checks on Netanyahu
- Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn Colorado poll ban
- Bomb threats cause evacuations at multiple US statehouses
- New Zealand: Man's watch reflection leads to rescue after day in ocean
- Hezbollah’s Leader Pledges Revenge for Killing of a Hamas Leader in Beirut
- Jeffrey Epstein: US court releases list of people connected to financier
- Salman Rushdie stabbing trial delayed over upcoming book
- Israelis Fear Assassination of Hamas Deputy May Disrupt Hostage Talks
- Luke Littler: Nail-biting world darts final ends in loss for teenager
- A restless Gen Z is reshaping the Chinese Dream
- Philippines: Bone diggers seek justice for dead in Duterte's drug war
- Uruguay bill stirs debate about dictatorship-era crimes
- India TB: Can vaccines help India triumph over tuberculosis?
- Crown Princess Mary: Australia celebrates an unexpected Queen
- Israel Gaza war: Yemen's Houthis warned against new attacks on shipping in Red Sea
- SpaceX accused of unlawfully firing staff critical of Elon Musk
- Canada’s Boreal Forests Badly Damaged by Logging
- Killing of Hostages Leads Israelis to Question How Army Conducts Battle
- Princess Mary of Denmark, Australia’s Homegrown Heroine
- Thursday Briefing
- Watch: Man leaps over US courtroom bench to attack judge
- New Jersey imam shot and killed outside his mosque
- Japan jet crash: Airline pilots initially unaware of cabin fire
- Japan earthquake: Race to find survivors as critical 72-hour window closes
- Queen Margrethe II of Denmark embarks on final ride in gold carriage before abdication
- Putin’s Drive to Rewrite History Snares a Retired Lithuanian Judge
- Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped on main E22 road
- Man charged over stabbing of S Korea opposition leader Lee Jae-myung
- Tetris: Watch moment US teenager becomes 'first to beat game'
- Sweden drivers stranded overnight on E22 motorway in deep snow
- Israel-Hamas War: U.S. and Allies Warn Houthi Militia Over Attacks on Shipping
- Iran Holds Day of Mourning for Those Killed at Suleimani Memorial
- Court deals blow to Argentine leader Milei's plan for labour reform
- A Trophy in Ruins: Russia Appears to Seize Control of Marinka
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