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Iranian players salute during the national anthem before their AFC Women's Asian Cup match against the Philippines in Gold Coast

Against South Korea

Iran sing national anthem before bowing out of Women's Asian Cup

Iran's president says that Tehran will be forced to respond if its neighbours attacked

Fireballs and clouds of smoke

Iran prepares to name new supreme leader as fuel dumps burn

People wait in a queue to refuel their vehicles near a fuel station in Dhaka on March 8, 2026

95 percent of oil and gas imported

Bangladesh rations fuel as Mideast war deepens energy crunch

The disappearance of flight MH370 12 years ago is one of aviation's greatest enduring mysteries, with the latest search yielding no fresh clues

Aviation’s greatest enduring mysteries

New hunt for flight MH370 ends with no clues to 12-year mystery

Mercedes'George Russell (R) competes with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc during the Australian Grand Prix

Dominant Russell wins Australian Grand Prix in Mercedes 1-2

The world's second-most populous country is threatened with a demographic crisis after its birth rate halved over the past decade -- all while people rapidly age out of the workforce

Young Chinese parents tighten belts as childcare costs rise

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attends a press conference in Beijing

Ongoing tensions

China FM urges US to manage differences in face of trade woes

A handout photograph taken March 4 and released by the Sri Lankan President's Office shows Sri Lankan navy personnel evacuating rescued Iranian sailors from the Dena

After warship was sunk

Sri Lanka hospital releases 22 rescued from torpedoed Iranian vessel

Franklin Parra shows his release order after leaving the Bolivarian National Police Zone 7 prison in Caracas

Venezuela frees more political prisoners under amnesty law

Iran's president says that Tehran will be forced to respond if its neighbours attacked

Into second week

Iran says can fight for months as Israel strikes Beirut hotel

An explosion erupts after strikes near Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran on Saturday

Sirens, strikes, and warnings

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Visitors check out the PlayStation gaming stall during the Bengaluru Comic Con 2025 fest in Bengaluru on December 21, 2025

Japanese entertainment giant

Sony faces $2.7 bn class action from UK PlayStation users

Rastriya Swatantra Party election candidate Balendra Shah (centre R) waits to collect a certificate for his victory in parliamentary elections at the counting centre in Damak in Nepal's Jhapa district

Nepal's rapper-led centrist party heads for poll landslide

Cristian Lucanas, an entomologist from the University of the Philippines Los Banos, shows preserved specimens of cockroaches in Los Banos town

Country's lone expert

Philippines' 'Cockroach Lord' goes to bat for misunderstood bugs

Ilia Topuria is one of the UFC's top rated fighter and a double-weight champion who has won all 17 of his fights

White House UFC event to be headlined by Topuria-Gaethje

A tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for oil

Global positioning system

Why have 1,000 ships at times lost their GPS in the Mideast?

Kari Lake was hired by Trump to oversee layoffs at US Agency for Global Media

Unlawfully appointed?

US court voids mass layoffs at Voice of America parent

A flock of birds flies over a section of the high-speed Ahmedabad-Mumbai rail project across the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad

Vast services sector

India's economy is booming, but uneven growth clouds ascent

Merz's CDU until recently enjoyed large poll leads in the state but these have shrunk in recent months

German state election a test for Chancellor Merz

First aid responders gather at a Ramada hotel that Lebanon said was targeted by an Israeli strike, in Beirut's seaside Rawche area, on March 8, 2026

'We have additional surprises ahead'

Israeli strike kills four at Beirut hotel: Lebanon

Footage authenticated by AFP recorded the sound of a drone then a loud explosion and plumes of smoke

Further bombardment

Kuwait airport, Saudi Arabia targeted as Iran presses Gulf attacks

US President Donald Trump hosted a dozen right-wing Latin American leaders at his Doral golf club in Florida

'Shield of the Americas' summit

Trump offers LatAm leaders US missile strikes to hit drug cartels

An Iranian Kurdish Peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran inspects the damage sustained at the Azadi Camp following an Iranian cross-border attack in northern Iraq

'The most dangerous scenario'

Turkey warns over 'dangerous' bid to stir civil war in Iran

A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber landed at Fairford on Saturday, an AFP photographer saw

To prevent Iran firing missiles

US starts using UK bases for 'defensive' Iran operations

A week of war has gripped daily life in Iraqi Kurdistan

As Iran conflict spills over, Iraq's Kurds say 'this war is not mine'

Many protesters came out in support of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late shah overthrown in Iran's 1979 revolution

From Paris to Johannesburg

Protests across globe mark one week of Iran war

A handout photograph taken by the Sri Lankan Navy of the Iranian ship IRIS Bushehr

Following torpedo attack

Sri Lanka to treat Iranian sailors according to 'international law'

A handout photograph taken by the Sri Lankan Navy of the Iranian ship IRIS Bushehr

Rescued from torpedoed frigate

Sri Lanka to treat Iranian sailors according to 'international law'

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