Japan launched a spacecraft towards Mars in a ground-breaking mission to bring back samples from the largest of the planet's two moons.

Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been photographed receiving books and letters from the King Charles, officials said.

An expedition to investigate if an anomaly seen on a satellite image of a remote island in the South Pacific was Amelia Earhart’s missing plane has ended without recovering the wreckage.

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European football chiefs have sent a list of 42 questions to FIFA, demanding answers about Gianni Infantino's alleged "conflicts of interest" over business dealings with the Trump family and the World Cup sell-off attempt.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said it is being forced to "drastically reduce" aid to Gaza because of funding shortages.

Doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie, his wife Rhoda Maweu, and 29 other co-accused have been found guilty of the murder of 190 children and one adult.

The four Canadian soldiers who died during a training exercise at the weekend did so when a grass fire spread "a kilometre in 36 seconds", officials said.

An Australian MP has been attacked outside her office and is in a critical condition, the country's prime minister Anthony Albanese has said.

Ten suspects have been arrested in connection with recent violence in the West Bank including attacks on an ​American ⁠photojournalist and European ⁠diplomats, Israeli police have said.

Mutiny erupts in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in an uncomfortable test for the Kremlin.

A flight from Tel Aviv has made an emergency landing in Bulgaria after a bomb threat.

Protesters have clashed with police in a second day of violence in the Italian city of Milan.

Albania's prime minister has said he will not resign despite days of protest and growing unrest, warning that the escalating violence is threatening the country's chances of joining the European Union. 

The bodies of four family members killed in an arson attack in Waterford have arrived at a church ahead of their funeral. 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that the US formally siding with Russia would be a "historic mistake" - as Ukrainian drones attacked oil facilities in St Petersburg.

Donald Trump has endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli elections later this month, calling him a "great warrior prime minister".

Pope Leo has said he plans to gradually return to his usual duties, as he greeted crowds in St Peter's Square during his first public event following lung cancer surgery.

At least 17 people have died and dozens more are injured after a crush at a religious festival in India, local media reports.

The US ambassador to Israel has condemned an attack by dozens of masked Israeli settlers on a village's harvest in the West Bank that left several people injured including an American photographer.