Zambian rights activists Saturday hailed as a "huge milestone" a decision to scrap two British colonial-era laws: the death penalty and making criticism of the country's leader a punishable offence.

A fire ripped through an old people's home in Russia's Siberia region, killing 22 people, investigators said on Saturday.

Charles Sobhraj, a convicted killer who police believe murdered more than 20 western backpackers on the "hippie trail" through Asia in the 1970s and 1980s, arrived in France on Saturday after nearly two decades behind bars in Nepal, BFM TV reported.

More than a million US power customers were in the dark Friday as a "bomb cyclone" winter storm walloped the country, closing highways, grounding flights and causing misery for Christmas travelers.

Former military strongman Sitiveni Rabuka was on Saturday confirmed as Fiji's prime minister, after accusing the outgoing government of stoking "fear and chaos" to derail his return to power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow wants an end to the war in Ukraine and that this would inevitably involve a diplomatic solution.

The congressional panel probing the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former US President Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot.

A gunman opened fire on a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris yesterday, killing three people and wounding three others, and prosecutors said they were looking into a possible racist motive for the attack.

Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data.

A 69-year-old gunman who opened fire at a Kurdish cultural centre and a hairdressing salon in central Paris on Friday had previously been charged with racist violence, a prosecutor said.

The shooting which occured today at a Kurdish community centre in Paris killed three people, the Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said, adding that the suspected attacker was known to authorities.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia wants an end to the war in Ukraine and that this would inevitably involve a diplomatic solution.

President Volodymyr Zelensky told the US Congress on Wednesday that aid to Ukraine is an investment in democracy, not charity, and invoked American victory over the Nazis in a key World War-II battle to press for continued assistance.

Nasa has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet.

A new conservation deal adopted this week at the UN summit in Montreal puts the world on a strong track to halt the rapid decline in nature - but only if wealthy nations deliver enough funding and all countries prioritize conservation.

Veteran leader Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had formed a new Israeli government, returning to power as the head of the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history.

France’s privacy watchdog yesterday said it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users.

US forecasters yesterday warned of life-threatening weather as a “once-in-a-generation” winter storm threatened to wreak havoc on holiday travel plans for millions of Americans.

Donald Trump paid no income tax during the final full year of his presidency as he reported a loss from his sprawling business interests

President Gabriel Boric of Chile, whose country has the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East, said Wednesday that he planned to open an embassy "in Palestine".