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WhatsApp has described the block as a "backwards step"

Russia cracks down on WhatsApp as it pushes state-backed rival

Ubisoft's star has fallen with investors in recent months

Amid restructuring

'Avatar' and 'Assassin's Creed' shore up troubled Ubisoft

Workers are restoring the luxurious 1st century BC residence of Poppaea Sabina

Surprisingly vibrant colours

'Virgin' frescoes emerge from Pompeii suburb

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry had tears in her eyes after failing to persuade a disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer from wearing a helmet adorned with pictures of Ukrainians killed in the war with Russia

Memorial helmet

Ukrainian's disqualification from Winter Olympics gives Coventry first test

While the Endangerment Finding initially applied only to a section of the Clean Air Act governing vehicle emissions, it was later incorporated into other regulations

Greenhouse gases

Trump to undo legal basis for US climate rules

NATO said it was starting an Arctic Sentry mission to increase security in the region

As Greenland storm passes, US allies focus on stepping up in NATO

The plan for 2025 to 2035 foresees more use of the country's 57 nuclear power plants

France bets on nuclear power to phase out fossil fuels

UN climate chief Simon Stiell said cooperation was 'the antidote to the chaos and coercion of this moment'

'Unprecedented threat'

UN climate chief says 'new world disorder' hits cooperation

Shocking footage

Shanghai road collapses into sinkhole during metro construction

This photo from London's Metropolitan Police shows former nursery care worker Vincent Chan, who has admitted charges including sexual assault

Admitted to 56 charges

UK nursery worker jailed for 18 years for 'wicked' serial child sex abuse

Balboa port on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal

Following annulled contract

HK firm CK Hutchison threatens legal action if Maersk takes over Panama ports

Federal agents detain a protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3, 2026

Trump ends immigration crackdown in Minnesota

The Mexican Navy ship ARM Papaloapan arriving in Havana Bay with humanitarian aid

Amid US blockade

Two Mexican navy ships arrive with humanitarian aid for Cuba

Impoverished Democratic Republic of Congo is home to some of the world's rarest minerals

Race for rare earths

Belgian museum blocks US firm's access to DRC mining files

More than 18,000 homes were destroyed in the cyclone, according to the BNRGC, with over 50,000 damaged or flooded

8,800 people displaced

Death toll in Madagascar cyclone rises to 38, 12,000 displaced

A US judge set a February 2027 trial date for President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC

Misleading editing

Judge sets Feb 2027 date for Trump's $10bn lawsuit against BBC

Russia wants users to switch to Max, a domestic messaging service that lacks end-to-end encryption

Tightening control

Russia is cracking down on WhatsApp and Telegram. Here's what we know

The elections are the first since the August 2024 student-led uprising ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina

Knife-edge race expected

Counting underway in first Bangladesh polls since deadly uprising

Norway's former prime minister Thorbjorn Jagland (L) and his lawyer (R) put on smiles as they left one of the premises being searched

'Nobel big shot'

Norway police search ex-PM Jagland's properties in probe over Epstein links

Vladyslav Heraskevych sliding in the helmet that honoured slain Ukrainian athletes

Honouring killed athletes

'Madness': Ukrainians furious over Olympian ban for memorial helmet

Fuelled by social media, the 'American-style' luxury proposal has become a sought-after event in the City of Light

Fuelled by social media

Love on the Seine: the rise of picturesque Paris proposals

The International Organization for Migration said it was 'deeply concerned' at the numbers

Increasing number of lives lost at sea

Italy's 'naval blockade' to stem migration too vague, critics say

The International Olympic Committee is in an extremely robust financial position, says British IOC member Hugh Robertson

Sold out within hours

Official Olympics shop sells eyebrow-raising Berlin 1936 merch

The European Commission sold 23 properties to the Belgian state in 2024

€900 million deal

Belgian police raid EU commission in real estate probe

Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on child sex offences

Pro-Kremlin accounts using Epstein files to push conspiracy: research

German director Wim Wenders is the head of the jury at this year's Berlinale film festival

Cinema's power to 'change the world' in focus at Berlin Film Fest

Manchester United's co-owner Jim Ratcliffe (C)

Following backlash

Man Utd's Ratcliffe's apologises for 'language' on immigration

Of more than 200 films shown during the Berlin Film Festival, 22 will compete for the coveted Golden Bear

'Family and intimacy under pressure' at Berlin film festival

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