The education activist was shot by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 when she was a schoolgirl and has returned to the country only a handful of times since.

US President Joe Biden will give a televised farewell address to the nation on Wednesday, the White House said, five days before Donald Trump returns to power

Emergency managers in Los Angeles apologised Friday after false evacuation alerts sparked panic in a city on edge over an unprecedented wildfire disaster

US President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or pay a fine over his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a judge ruled yesterday, but the sentencing will place a judgment of guilt on his record.

Research published in The Lancet medical journal yesterday estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of Israeli offensive was around 40 percent higher than recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.

Wildfires menacing Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people and devoured nearly 10,000 structures, with five fires burning into a third night on Thursday, as dry desert winds fanning the flames again gathered strength.

The UN rights chief insisted yesterday that regulating harmful content online “is not censorship”, days after Meta scrapped its fact-checking programme on Facebook and Instagram citing censorship concerns.

The US has announced an increased $25m (£20.4m) reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on the day he was sworn in for a third six-year term in office.

The Israeli military said yesterday that its air force had struck Houthi targets in Yemen, including a power station and ports on the western coast.

The downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines airplane shows that flying over Russia poses a “high risk” to civilian flights amid the war in Ukraine, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency said yesterday.

The last two years exceeded on average a critical warming limit for the first time as global temperatures soar “beyond what modern humans have ever experienced”, Europe’s climate monitor said yesterday.

Ukraine’s air force said yesterday Russia attacked it with 72 drones overnight though it downed 33 of them while 34 others disappeared from radar without reaching their targets.

2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the world over a critical climate threshold, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Ten people dead, 10,000 buildings destroyed, 180,000 people evacuated, $150 billion in damage.

A judge sentenced Donald Trump to an unconditional discharge Friday for covering up hush money payments to a porn star despite the US president-elect's last-ditch efforts to avoid becoming the first felon in the White House

Says Lancet study; Israeli forces bomb a group of Palestinians in eastern Gaza City

The Times has been told some of those close to the prime minister are at least informally considering who could succeed her

Massive wildfires that engulfed whole neighborhoods and displaced thousands in Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people, authorities said, as California's National Guard soldiers readied to hit the streets to help quell disorder.

Biden said he was surging 400 federal firefighters and 30 firefighting planes and helicopters to Los Angeles, while the Pentagon will send eight large planes and 500 wildfire clearance personnel.

About 400 members of California's National Guard will be deploying to the Los Angeles fire zones, the county sheriff told reporters Thursday