A small plane crashed into a commercial building in California on Thursday, killing at least two people and injuring 18 others, police said.

South Korean investigators attempted to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence Friday over a failed martial law bid, but were being blocked by his security forces

China sanctioned 10 US defence firms yesterday over arms sales to Taiwan, its second round of measures against American companies over the issue in less than a week.

Twenty-seven migrants, including women and children, died after two boats capsized off central Tunisia, with 83 people rescued, a civil defence official told AFP yesterday.

South Korean police raided the offices of Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport yesterday as they step up a probe into the fatal crash of a Boeing 737-800 that killed 179 people.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday accused the Indian Border Security Force of letting infiltrators from Bangladesh enter India to destabilise the state.

More than 528,500 people were killed in the Syrian civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said on Wednesday.

Montenegro began three days of national mourning yesterday after a gunman went on a rampage after opening fire at a village restaurant, killing 12 people including two children.

A US army veteran motivated by loyalty to the jihadist group Islamic State likely acted alone when he killed and injured dozens in a truck attack against a New Orleans crowd of New Year revellers, the FBI said yesterday.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 43 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, including 11 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said.

Around 36,816 people were detected crossing the Channel last year, a 25 percent increase from the 29,437 who arrived in 2023, according to provisional figures from the ministry.

No group has claimed the four activists' abduction and they have not been heard from since.

Yoon has gone to ground but remained unrepentant as the crisis has rolled on, issuing a defiant message to his base days before an arrest warrant expires on January 6.

Joe Biden said authorities were investigating any links between the Las Vegas explosion and an attack earlier Wednesday in New Orleans

Hamas condemned the decision to ban the network

Authorities had earlier put the toll at 10, but an FBI spokesman told AFP it had risen to 15

Israeli air strikes on al-Bureij refugee camp and Jabalia town in central and northern Gaza killed at least 17 Palestinians yesterday, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported..The Israeli military had no immediate comment although in a post on X, its Arabic spokesperson warned r

A US citizen with an Islamic State flag slammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year revellers in New Orleans yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 35, officials said.

Five people died across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured from accidents linked to the powerful fireworks Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the new year, police said in a preliminary count.

Russia’s gas transit to Europe via Ukraine stopped yesterday, Moscow and Kyiv said, ending a decades-long arrangement and marking the latest casualty of the war between the neighbours.