Leaders of developing nations have used the second day of the UN climate summit to press rich industrial countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face.

Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organisation.

Israel has pounded more targets in the southern Gaza Strip, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a week-long truce with Hamas and prompting renewed concerns about civilian casualties.

Lawsuits against Donald Trump over the US Capitol riot can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.

John Turscak is accused of attacking Chauvin with an improvised knife in the prison’s law library on November 24.

Woods, 47, delivered a two-under-par 70 to leave him on one-over par through 36 holes following ankle surgery after his withdrawal from the Masters in April.

The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya was sentenced on Friday to 18 months in prison for the illegal distribution of films and operating a film studio without licences.

Grieving family members whose loved ones have been killed in the conflict will also lead a vigil outside Downing Street on Sunday

An appeal court has upheld the disorderly conduct convictions of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and then lying about it to police.

Ukraine’s spy agency has bombed trains on a railway in Siberia that serves as a key route for trade between Russia and China, Ukrainian media reported.

Qatar, which has served as a mediator along with Egypt, said negotiators were still trying to restart the ceasefire

Tens of thousands of people have turned out in Romania’s capital to watch a military parade that included troops from Nato allies to mark the country’s national day.

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said his government is not prepared to “review its goals” in Ukraine — delivering a blunt and confrontational message to Western leaders on a rare trip to a Nato member state.

The first gay couple in Nepal to have their same-sex marriage officially recognised have vowed to campaign for changes in the law to help others like them to get married.

Japanese officials have expressed concern that the US military is continuing to fly Osprey aircraft in the country without providing adequate information about a fatal crash this week despite repeated requests.

Israeli fighter jets hit targets in the Gaza Strip minutes after a week-long truce expired as the war with Hamas resumed in full force

It was the golf icon's first competitive round since April.

Qatar and Egypt, which have played a key role as mediators, had sought to prolong the truce by another two days

Hamas has freed eight Israeli hostages in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners under a last-minute deal to extend their ceasefire in Gaza by another day.

A judge has sided with singer Daryl Hall in his request to keep John Oates temporarily blocked from selling his share of the Hall and Oates duo’s joint venture without his musical partner’s permission.

A man who claimed he acted in self-defence when he shot and killed two men in 2001 has been executed in the US state of Oklahoma.

Saudi Arabia will extend a cut in the amount of oil it sends to the world after a series of reductions by members of the Opec+ alliance of major producing countries failed to prop up prices.

The talks appear to be growing tougher, with Hamas having already freed most of the women and children it kidnapped on October 7.

A New York appeals court has reinstated a gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial.

The network of nearly 4,800 fake accounts was trying to build an audience when it was identified and eliminated by the tech company, which owns Facebook and Instagram

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov faced western critics while attending international security talks in Northern Macedonia, where he blamed “Nato’s reckless expansion to the East” for war returning to Europe.

Seventeen Thai workers released from captivity by the militant Hamas group have been greeted by family and friends, officials and journalists in an emotional homecoming at Bangkok’s international airport.

Israel and Hamas agreed at the last minute on Thursday to extend their ceasefire in Gaza by another day.

Decades later, the scene is still almost too bizarre to imagine: a tearful president and his perplexed aide, neither very religious, kneeling on the floor of a White House bedroom in prayer in the waning hours of a shattered presidency.

This year is all but certain to be the hottest on record, the UN weather agency said as it warned that worrying trends suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt and heatwaves in the future.

Elon Musk has accused firms who have stopped spending on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, in response to antisemitic and other hateful material of engaging in “blackmail”.

Russian missiles have torn through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said on Thursday, killing at least one person and burying families under rubble.

Europeans again saw some relief as inflation dropped to 2. 4% in November – the lowest in more than two years – as plummeting energy costs have eased a cost-of-living crisis but higher interest rates squeeze the economy’s ability to grow.

Japan has suspended flights by its Osprey aircrafts, officials said. It comes the day after a US air force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission.

Somalia’s maritime police force has intensified patrols in the Red Sea after a failed pirate hijacking of a ship in the Gulf of Aden.

It comes as Israel released another group of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 16 hostages freed earlier by Hamas in Gaza

Israel has released another group of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for 16 hostages freed earlier by Hamas in Gaza. A bus carrying some of the Palestinian detainees was seen arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah before dawn on Thursday.

Frances Sternhagen, the veteran character actor and Tony Award winner, has died aged 93. Sternhagen died peacefully of natural causes in her home in Washington, DC, her son, John Carlin, said in a statement posted to Instagram.

The actor Jonathan Majors appeared in court in New York on Wednesday where jury selection is expected to begin in a trial where he is accused of injuring his then-girlfriend during an argument last spring.

Finland closed its final remaining border crossing with Russia on Wednesday after the government decided to seal the entire border with its eastern neighbour amid rising political tensions.

A gay couple in Nepal became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status on Wednesday. The Himalayan nation is one of the first in Asia to allow it.

Tech giant Amazon has said it will launch Q, a business chatbot powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI).

A special court has cleared France’s justice minister of a conflict of interest, ruling he was not guilty of having used his office to settle personal scores.

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a proposal by Joe Biden’s US administration in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges.