
Taylor Swift and Charli XCX among stars to light up VMAs red carpet
Celebrities posed for the cameras ahead of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.

Celebrities posed for the cameras ahead of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.

Taylor Swift became the most-awarded artist in MTV Video Music Awards history on Sunday, receiving the inaugural Artist Director Honors and moving past Beyoncé with 31 awards. Swift, who said she had...

Private dinner will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to reports.

The so-called nor'easter storm has washed up what may be a shipwreck from the 19th century in Massachusetts, local media says.

Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado has been living in exile, with plans to return to Venezuela spoiled multiple times.

Demonstrators protest against UK government's proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist' organisation.

Ireland scored a 3-0 victory over Israel in a politically-charged UEFA Nations League match played in Hungary.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was confronted by activists at a restaurant over the proscription of Palestine Action.

Israel’s security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has released a video in which he is seen threatening to kill Hassan Salameh.

Refugees in Durban say they have nowhere safe to return to after being forced from a makeshift camp.

Police are investigating the killings in a country with one of the highest femicide rates in the world.

Abbas Araghchi's warning comes after Washington rejected a seven-day roadmap to end the war and reopen Strait of Hormuz.

An avalanche has struck the Himlung Himal base camp in Nepal after days of severe weather. Two guides are confirmed dead and at least 14 people remain missing in the remote region.

(Bloomberg) -- Global anxiety over artificial intelligence risks has intensified following fresh disclosures about a far wider range of breaches by advanced AI models, setting the stage for a high-sta...

Protesters in Madrid have spent a second night camping in Puerta del Sol, turning the capital’s main square into a makeshift housing protest camp after the eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Aba...
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Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Spanish capital on Saturday to call for greater protection for tenants. The protest was sparked by the eviction of an elderly woman who was forced out of he...

Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia found themselves in the path of the powerful weather system.

Ethiopia’s army chief accused Eritrea and Sudan on Sunday of backing armed groups fighting federal troops, as clashes with Tigrayan rebels intensified. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front said it was...
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Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia is drawing in the country’s disputes with Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea, raising fears that its internal conflict could spread across the region.

Head of the Roman Catholic Church holds 'emotional' two-hour meeting with seven survivors in French town of Lourdes.

In many major urban centers of Europe, the housing shortage has become an explosive social issue. DW looks into various models that have been put in place across the continent.

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said Saturday that it's "entirely possible" his party could win control of the Senate in the midterm elections, but he also left the door o...

Thousands of protesters blocked a road in Portadown, Northern Ireland, on 27 September, in an attempt to stop an Orange Order parade from entering the mainly Catholic and nationalist Garvaghy Road are...
France 24
Tensions are running high in Northern Ireland after the High Court in Belfast approved a controversial parade. Around 2,000 protesters have blocked the route into a Catholic area where the Protestant...

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US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he expected talks with Iran to resume next week, despite rejecting Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day truce followed by the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. T...

Man City just got found guilty on 114 of 115 financial charges — but the story behind it is much more complex.

Iranian officials that while they were aware of Trump's comments on rejecting the new proposal, they had not received a formal message rejecting the plan that would open the Strait of Hormuz.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he is still looking “very seriously” at implementing a US ban on diesel exports to combat high prices, even as others in his administration continue to focus...

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 27th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

In a system often marked by red tape and exhausting delays, officers seen to be following the rules get adulation.

Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine on Sunday, authorities said, a day after Moscow vowed to continue the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched about 3,900 drones,...

The nor'easter causes another round of flooding in low-lying areas in New Jersey and New York City and knocks out power.
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Hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands were delayed as a nor'easter brought flooding, power cuts and travel disruption to cities like New York, Boston and Philadelphia.

At a high-profile summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Washington, there was much talk of trade and artificial intelligence. One of the most contentious issues, Taiwan, was only di...

(NewsNation) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ramping up its presence in “sanctuary cities," which are known to limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal officers,...

With Israel’s election approaching, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is battling new revelations of alleged warnings about Hamas’ 7 October attack and countered the political storm with a fiery UN sp...

In rare access to Yemen's conflict zone the BBC travels to the front line with pro-government soldiers.

Israel will revoke the diplomatic accreditation of Dutch officials based in the occupied West Bank after the Netherlands began enforcing a ban on goods from Israeli settlements, Foreign Minister Gideo...
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Israel escalates retaliatory measures as Western sanctions target illegal West Bank settlements.

Ireland's players wore black armbands in support of Palestine, bowed their heads, and refused pre-match handshakes.

A panda at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where the pair sent to Atlanta departed from (Hector RETAMAL)Two giant pandas sent by China arrived in the United States on Sunday, Beijin...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim that the vehicle is a REMUS 600 and has been handed over to Iranian military experts "to retrieve its data," but the US military denies the claim. Top Iranian army co...

In rare access to Yemen's conflict zone the BBC travels to the front line with pro-government soldiers.

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its allies won enough seats in France's Senate to form a parliamentary group in the upper house for the first time in the party's history Sunday, securing...

Student protests at an Indian university have turned violent following claims that a female student was raped on campus.

President Donald Trump appears in a television ad. - US Government The White House has launched another taxpayer-funded television ad before the midterms, this time featuring imagery of President Dona...

A month before the early parliamentary elections, Serbia's high ranking politicians from the ruling and opposition parties engaged in a debate on the N1 channel after a prolonged boycott between the a...

The BBC's Ricky Boleto looks how previous SpaceX test flights went.
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Aleksandar Vučić's administration has been dogged by prolonged protests over allegations of corruption.
Al Jazeera
Despite student-led protests and political unrest challenging his rule, Vucic intends to run in the snap elections.

Circulating footage showed significant flooding, following heavy rain in southeastern Algeria.

Jason Graziadei, editor in chief of the Nantucket Current, spotted the new remnants of what's believed to be a shipwreck from more than a century ago on Nantucket’s south shore Saturday. (Jason Gr...

Seven people were killed and 40 injured in a Saudi airstrike on a market in Yemen’s Taiz province, as Houthi forces advance and Saudi-led air raids intensify.
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A strike on a market in the Yemeni city of Taiz has killed at least seven people and wounded 40.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic stepped down as the country's head of state Sunday, paving the way for him to run as his right-wing populist Serbian Progressive Party's candidate for prime minister...

Goncalo Ramos starts in place of Cristiano Ronaldo and scores the winner for Portugal in Oslo.

HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane Nolo edged further away from the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday as major Hurricane Polo bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula with a threat of storm su...

The Israeli FA issued a statement commending the FAI and the Irish squad for deciding to go ahead with the match, saying: "Football has won."

Pope Leo spoke to bishops before leading a service attended by thousands of worshippers in France.
France 24
Pope Leo XIV continued his visit to France in Lourdes, at the major Catholic pilgrimage site in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where he celebrated mass before around 150,000 people. Hendro Munstermann...

A referendum on whether Swiss neutrality should be more strictly, legally enforced in the Constitution.
BBC World
The initiative would have prevented the nation from imposing sanctions unless approved by the UN.

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, and his wife, Katie Miller, attend the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, 2025. - Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Sipa USA Two veteran FBI ag...

Russia's recruitment drive targeting Belarusians has become a key tool to boost manpower on the battlefield and exploits economic hardship and isolation.

Rescuers are looking for at least 10 Nepalese people who were preparing to take climbers up the Himlung Himal peak.

After two days in Paris, where he drew hundreds of thousands of worshippers, Pope Leo XIV is continuing his visit to France in the southwestern pilgrimage town of Lourdes. There, he is due to meet pri...

An Israeli Apache helicopter struck a commercial centre near Mayfadoun in Southern Lebanon.
A new, previously suppressed book by a former CIA officer paints a satirical and slashing portrait of the agency’s deep-cover spying program as riven by systematic dysfunction. The book, “The...

Although the EU is not facing immediate gas shortages, Energy Commissioner Jørgensen warned capitals that soaring prices driven by rising global demand could lead to shortages as winter approaches, ac...

The 34-year-old is under investigation for incidents that began in February 2024 up until as recently as last month.

British police have evacuated homes near an air force base in Gloucestershire, as army bomb disposal experts examined several vehicles in what authorities described as a major incident. Five men have...

Five men have been arrested near RAF Fairford in the UK on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences.
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LONDON (AP) — U.K. police said that five men arrested in the early hours of Sunday near an air base used by the United States during its war against Iran are being held on suspicion of preparing a ter...

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday addressed the Trump administration's decision to ban three mainstream news outlets from accessing the White House, saying that President Donald Trump had no...

Rain is easing in Thailand’s capital, but flooding continues in several low-lying areas. Thousands of people have been forced into temporary shelters after the government declared Bangkok a disaster z...
BBC World
Authorities said the heavy rains have subsided but the flooding is not yet over.

Ethiopia’s army has reportedly recaptured the strategic town of Sekota from Tigrayan forces as fighting spreads.
Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday that President Donald Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal because Tehran wanted sanctions relief and access to "billions in fr...

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 27th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

A slew of dissidents being released from long-term detention comes days after the nation's interim leader met the US president.

It has been a deadly night in South Africa, with 27 people killed in two separate shooting incidents. Police say 17 people were shot dead at a tavern outside Johannesburg by suspects armed with assaul...
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Gunmen torched vehicles as they fled the scene of a mass shooting at bar near Johannesburg [Getty Images] Twenty-seven people have been killed in two mass shootings hours apart in South Africa, the l...
BBC World
The two attacks hours apart come as the country struggles to stop high levels of gang-related armed violence.
Euronews
Seventeen people were killed in a shooting at a bar to the west of Johannesburg, while 10 people were fatally shot in an attack outside of Cape Town, police said.

Police say the US shooting followed an altercation at an after-hours venue, and four people are in hospital.

Nearly $11 billion (€9.7 billion) worth in contracts have emerged from the Azerbaijan International Investment Forum, where some of the world’s biggest investment managers gathered for talks ranging f...

Cuba's deputy foreign minister slams US sanctions, labelling them 'equivalent to genocide'.

GORHAM, Maine (AP) — For years, Planned Parenthood’s endorsement of Susan Collins was enough to persuade Erin Evans to vote for Maine's longtime U.S. senator, believing that the moderate Republica...

Big Bang played London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, marking a long-awaited return for the group that helped build the blueprint for modern K-pop.

Two more women have been found dead in Johannesburg this weekend, bringing the number of women killed in a single municipality to 11 in just two months. Most of the other victims were in their 20s and...

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — For years, residents of this Southern California beach town could walk a mile along a stretch of cream-colored sand and dip their toes in the waves lapping ashore....

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 27th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

The foreign minister says Tehran is waiting for an official rejection of a deal, despite the US President's comments.

British police have evacuated homes near an air force base in Gloucestershire, as army bomb disposal experts examined several vehicles in what authorities described as a major incident. Five men have...

Fishermen motor past a commercial vessel anchored off Yemen's coast at Bab el-Mandeb, in the strait connecting the Red Sea with the Arabian Sea, on Sept. 12. (AFP via Getty Images)To visit Bab el-...

You'll have seen the coverage of Céline Dion's return from illness and her Paris residency. But here's a different angle: the audio technology keeping her stage quiet, and the artificial intelligence...

The US president has reportedly threatened to resume strikes on Iran.

The 2026 hurricane season has been remarkable, from the potentially record-breaking calm in the Atlantic Ocean to the hyperactive eastern and central Pacific Ocean. Only seven tropical storms have for...

The victims of the crash have not yet been identified, Quebec provincial police told the BBC.

At least 27 people were killed in separate mass shootings in Cape Town and Johannesburg, police said Sunday. No suspects have been arrested in either shooting, and the motives for the attacks remain u...

Christa Pike's lawyers have filed a clemency petition seeking to commute her sentence ahead of the 30 September execution date [Tennesse Department of Corrections] Ashlee Sellars last heard from...

Earlier on Sunday, British police evacuated nearby homes following a major incident at a British military base. Several men were arrested on suspicion of explosives offences, while police said they be...

La Roja came back from 2-1 down at half-time to see off England for their Nations League opener on Saturday evening, extending their unbeaten run to 39 games. Substitutes Álex Baena and Mikel Oyarzaba...

From Pope Leo XIV's historic first visit to France to US President Donald Trump meeting China's President Xi Jinping to flooded streets in Bangkok, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week's most striking pic...

In Poland, a close ally of neighbouring Ukraine, concerns are growing that the war could spill across the border. Our next report comes from Suwałki, a city in a region bordering Russia and Belarus th...

Massive data centers needed to run AI are triggering protests across Europe. Their operators counter that they boost digital sovereignty and energy independence.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated a huge outdoor Mass in Paris, then travelled to Lourdes to pray at the grotto, greet pilgrims and continue his French pilgrimage.

Lawyers for Pike, who killed a fellow student in 1995, say she should get clemency and would not be sentenced to death if the crime happened today.

Drone explosions, airspace violations, arson attacks: Poland, Romania, and Moldova are now regularly targeted in Russian attacks against Ukraine. More governments are calling these attacks deliberate...

Azerbaijan observes its annual Remembrance Day by honouring its soldiers fallen in 2020, but also building on six years of peace for post-war recovery, new opportunities and regional normalisation.

China's economy and tech have developed at breakneck speed, but there is plenty worrying its Gen Z.

The blast was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, which has stepped up attacks on Pakistani security forces in recent years.
Euronews
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group, or Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the bombing. The group, founded in late 2007, is allied with the Afghan Taliban.

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 26th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

Thousands of white crosses have been displayed in Washington by an Afrikaner lobby group But South Africa's new ambassador Roelf Meyer says there is not a genocide.

The Russian government wants children to learn about patriotism from an early age. DW spoke to students in Siberia about their views on propaganda at school on the war in Ukraine and their future.

Trump's response comes after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that "if the necessary conditions are met, the strait can be reopened, and normal maritime traffic can resume within...

Christy Spivey tells the BBC she only has more questions now police think Tasia Fortune's body was put in the tree after her death.

A new report shows how in South Korea, women on average earn less and have fewer employment opportunities throughout their lives.

Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 26th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

Four Americans and a Greek national are among those killed in a suspected gas explosion, officials said.

On Saturday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Russia had also carried out a "double strike" attack on a logistics facility serving fast-food chain McDonald’s.

Baku has completed a week of octane-fuelled racing, high-level security facilitation and secured record investments in one of its most dynamic events-filled weeks of the year.

Earlier this month, 12 countries announced new trade sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank amid what they called a "rapidly deteriorating" situation marked by increasing settler a...

The Houthis declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia in July and have since been launching increasing attacks on Saudi cities and shipping, further heightening tensions in the Middle East.

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 26th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

Brazilians go to the polls on October 4. The front-runners are multilateralist incumbent Lula da Silva and former President Jair Bolsonaro's son, Flavio, who wants to bring Brazil closer to the US and...

Dozens of southern right whale calves have been found dead on Argentina's Patagonian coast. Scientists are probing a possible bacterial infection after an unusually deadly season.

Climate change is transforming Papua's snowy peaks, which hold scientific value and spiritual significance.

The US Army is considering deploying medical, logistics and military police units, as the Pentagon keeps plans ready for possible action in Cuba, the US broadcast network CBS is reporting exclusively.

Iran’s foreign minister has proposed a seven-day roadmap to Washington by which Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the US lifts its naval blockade, together with other conditi...

Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington ends on a high note of pomp and less confrontation, as key details of his talks with US president Donald Trump are still to emerge

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 25th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

A 14-year-old boy was killed after a Russian drone tore into a 16-storey apartment block in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district overnight on Friday 25 September 2026.

A powerful explosion in Athens’ historic Plaka district brought down a two-storey building near the Acropolis on Friday 25 September 2026, injuring at least two people. The cause remains under investi...

Turkey will gradually hand over the Bashiqa-Zilkan camp, where it has had troops since 2015, to the Iraqi government.

Washington grants millions to the so-called Trans-Caspian Enterprise Fund to act as a catalyst for private investment in the South Caucasus and Central Asia.

South Africa brought thousands of people together at Pretoria’s Loftus Versfeld Stadium on 24 September 2026 in a bid to reclaim the Guinness World Records title for the most people barbecuing simulta...

Pope Leo XIV begins historic four-day visit to France with focus on Europe’s future.

Russia keeps up air strikes on Ukraine with an expanding fleet of drones, from the Shahed-136 to the jet-powered Geran-4 and Geran-5, while boosting production in Alabuga.

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 25th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

Kazakhstan declared a day of national mourning after one of the country’s deadliest military accidents in recent years.

The Israeli military has released video it says shows a 2-kilometre underground tunnel in southern Gaza being destroyed. The footage, provided by the army, could not be independently verified. The mil...

Austria's yodellers are using a Graz underground car park for its rich acoustics, bringing an Alpine tradition to an unusual urban setting.

Kyiv has been pushing for a licence to produce Patriot interceptors domestically, arguing that they are crucial to its ability to defend against Russian ballistic missile attacks.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said Copenhaver had been "gravely wounded" in the shooting and that he had "died from complications stemming from those wounds."

Police clear bicycles and cordon off streets in Paris ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s visit and his planned walk through the capital.

The speech came as demonstrators gathered in New York to protest against the Israeli leader, with around 100 people reportedly detained by police.

Trump and Xi Jinping's high-stakes Washington summit was closely watched in Europe, as Pope Leo XIV arrives in France for the first time. Also on the show: an interview with Danish minister Martin Lid...

Yanbu serves as the kingdom's primary crude export terminal on the Red Sea and is connected to its oil-producing regions near the Gulf coast by the East-West pipeline, also known as Petroline.

US President Donald Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House, capping a day of ceremony and diplomacy between the two leaders.

Catch up with the most important stories from around Europe and beyond this September 25th, 2026 - latest news, breaking news, World, Business, Entertainment, Politics, Culture, Travel.

Ruby Wang, a physician and biotech consultant in the U.K., on her upcoming book on the emergence of China as a global health superpower.

Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”

The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.

The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.
As college costs and student debt have Americans doubting the value of higher education, there's growing interest in high-paying jobs that don't require a degree - and in public policy support...

In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.

“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”

From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other.

Apple’s high-end models cost more in markets like India and Turkey owing to high taxes and import duties.

Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.

OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring leaders from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants to win new markets across India and Southeast Asia.

A short-lived generative AI feature in Google Earth that allowed users to create fake satellite imagery shows the lasting effects of unvetted AI tools during a conflict.

Squeezed by a stagnant economy and state directives, China's underemployed lawyers, architects, and engineers are taking cheap gig work to teach AI their exact trades — just to pay this month's mortga...