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Industrial cooperation

Luxembourg and France sign declaration of intent on defence

European Council

Savings and Investment Union take centre stage at EU Summit

The exhibition includes Matisse's 'La Gerbe' (The Sheaf), showcasing his latter-year affinity for gouache cut-outs

Fauvist pioneer

Matisse's last years cut out -- but not pasted -- at Paris expo

Nicholas Brendon, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ actor, dies at 54

The women gather weekly at a playground in Jinja district

Reshaping ageing

From bats to bonds: Uganda's 'cricket grannies'

'Potential life-threatening flooding'

Intense rains threaten Hawaii dam, thousands told to evacuate

'25 are seriously injured'

11 dead in South Korea car plant fire

US President Donald Trump lashed out at NATO allies

As US Marines are deployed

Israel strikes Tehran, Beirut as Trump mulls 'winding down' war

Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022 after months of back and forth with the social media company's board

$2.6 billion in damages

US jury finds Elon Musk misled Twitter shareholders

Oil and gas markets have reeled with the war in the Middle East

Petrol price rises, airline cancellations

Middle East war: global economic fallout

BTS's highly-anticipated world tour could rake in more cash than Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour, according to some projections

Tickets to toothbrushes: BTS's money-making machine

A family watches the last moments of twilight as the sun sets in Los Angeles, California, on March 18, 2026

65 cities reach new March highs

Record-breaking heat wave grips western US

Havana's communist authorities have said exiled Cubans can invest on the island to help its ramshackle economy but the idea is being met with caution in Florida A coconut water stall is seen on a street in Havana with a sign reading "Ice-cold coconut water", on March 16, 2026. Cubans living abroad and their descendants will be able to invest and have their own businesses on the island, the communist government announced on March 16, 2026, at a time when the country’s economy is almost paralyzed by the energy blockade imposed by Washington.

Island in economic crisis

After Cuba beckons, Miami entrepreneurs are mostly reluctant to invest in the island

A supporter of Peruvian presidential hopeful Rafael Lopez Aliaga holds a pig mask while waiting for the candidate at a rally

Amid rising crime rates

Peru's crowded presidential race zeroes in on organized crime

Taiwanese Olympic boxing champion Lin Yu-ting was embroiled in a gender row at the Paris Games in 2024

'Tremendous relief'

Taiwan's Lin to compete in first international event since Paris gender row

Parents adamant that social media has harmed their children are among those awaiting a verdict in the social media addiction trial taking place in Los Angeles

Meta and Youtube

Jury signals tech titans on hook for social media addiction

US President Donald Trump ruled out reaching a ceasefire in the three-week-old US-Israeli war against Iran

Ongoing conflict

Trump says considering 'winding down' Iran war, US eases oil sanctions

The Irish-language rap trio Kneecap said they came to Cuba in 'solidarity' with the island's people

Irish trio join aid convoy

Rap group Kneecap says crisis-hit Cuba being 'strangled'

US President Donald Trump speaks to journalists before boarding Marine One as he departs from the South Lawn of the White House

For not helping control Strait of Hormuz

Trump mulls 'winding down' Iran war

A US Drug Enforcement Administration plane takes off during the extradition operation to transport Costa Rica's former security minister Celso Gamboa, who is accused of drug trafficking

Facing drug trafficking charges

Costa Rican ex-security minister extradited to US for drug trafficking

The Spanish Supercopa, hosted by Saudi Arabia in January, is just one of dozens of major sporting events now held in the Gulf

Reputational damage

Gulf's decades-long strategy of sporting investment rocked by Mideast war

Iranians are increasingly using technology like VPNs to get around censorship

Souped-up VPNs play 'cat and mouse' game with Iran censors

This aerial photo taken on March 15, 2026 shows the wreck of Russian liquified natural gas (LNG) carrier Arctic Metagaz, which is adrift near Malta

Attacked Russian tanker drifting toward Libya: Italian authorities

Explosives are set off at the Schneefernerkopf ski lift to start its demolition at the Zugspitze ski resort near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany

Another victim of global warming

Vanishing glacier on Germany's highest peak prompts ski lift demolition

Former Boxing world champion Ricky Hatton died in September 2025

Former world champion

Coroner 'not satisfied' boxer Hatton intended to take own life

An Israeli self-propelled howitzer artillery gun fires rounds towards southern Lebanon

International turmoil

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Transport costs have soared as fuel prices recently reached record highs in Nigeria, before slipping back down

Wide-reaching fallout

Far from war, global fuel frustrations mount

A view of the Strait of Hormuz from the United Arab Emirates

Hoping supplies get through

Ship crews ration food in Iran blockade: seafarers

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