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A new compensation package would make Sundar Pichai one of the highest paid CEOs in the world

New compensation plan

Google gives CEO new pay deal worth up to $692 million

Firefighters extinguish a blaze and clear rubble at a five-story residential building in Kharkiv on March 7

Triggering air alerts across the country

Russia rains missiles and drones on Ukraine, killing six

In California and across the United States, gas prices are on the rise as the Middle East war begins to affect pocketbooks

Politically sensitive time

Rising US fuel prices risk sparking domestic wildfire for Trump

Inflation in Venezuela soared in 2025, driven by tightening US sanctions

Driven by tightening of US sanctions

Venezuela inflation hit 475% in 2025, the world's highest level

Firefighters extinguish a blaze and clear rubble at a five-story residential building in Kharkiv on March 7

Poland scrambling military planes

Russian strike on Kharkiv apartment block kills three

The Russian delegation of four athletes was booed by sections of the spectators in the Verona Arena

'Breach of the truce'

Paralympics open with Russian athletes booed in ceremony

Smoke and fire rise from the site of airstrikes in a central area of the Iranian capital Tehran on March 6, 2026

Lebanon death toll rises to 123

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Dominant wi: World number one Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on the way to a victory over Japan's Himeno Sakatsume at Indian Wells

Sinner, Sabalenka make dominant starts in quest for first Indian Wells titles

Artificial intelligence tools can also be found built into semi-autonomous attack drones and other weapons

Use in war remains hotly debated

Questions over AI capability as tech guides Iran strikes

Brent North Sea Crude has surged past $90

While others rise

Oil prices surge as Mideast war rages, stocks fall on US jobs

Donald Trump has been vague about both the reason for entering a war with Iran and the objectives being pursued

'Incoherent, immoral, arrogant' messaging

Vibes war? Trump pitches Iran conflict on 'feeling'

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei said the company disputes the legal basis of the action

Deemed a supply chain risk

Anthropic vows court fight in Pentagon row

Hungary's tax authority says it is conducting 'criminal proceedings on suspicion of money laundering'

Threats and accusations

Hungary has not returned cash seized from bank workers, Kyiv says

Infographic with map showing the Strait of Hormuz, locating floating objects (generally boats) captured by the Sentinel-1 radar satellite, before and after the announcement of the blockade of the strait by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to an AFP analysis

Amid rising fuel prices

Only nine commercial ships detected crossing Hormuz Strait since Monday

Trump has repeatedly said that he believes the Cuban regime is ripe for collapse

'Gonna fall pretty soon'

Cuba 'next' on agenda, after Iran: Trump

Dimorphos' egg-like shape and craggy, boulder-dotted surface came into clear view in the last few moments before DART's impact

'Notable step forward'

NASA defense test kicked asteroid off course -- and changed its orbit around the sun

Barack Obama smiled and said 'I love you back' as he received a rapturous welcome from the gathered mourners before paying tribute to Jesse Jackson

Speaks of assaults on democratic institutions

'Harder path': Obama attacks Trump at Jesse Jackson memorial

US President Donald Trump, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and other officials attend a ceremony marking the return of the bodies of three Americans killed in Syria

Died in Iranian attack on Kuwait

Trump to attend return of six US troops killed in Iran war

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the conflict in the Middle East is causing tremendous suffering and harm to civilians throughout the region

Escalating conflict

UN chief slams 'unlawful attacks', says Mideast could spiral out of control

Smoke rises from the site of air strikes in the Iranian capital

Analyst's thoughts

Middle East war a new shock for financial markets

President Claudia Sheinbaum unveiled the Mexico's World Cup security plan less than two weeks after an explosion of violence in Guadalajara, which will host four games

Mexico unveils 100,000-strong security deployment for World Cup

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable in Washington, DC on March 4, 2026

'Direct threats'

Trump's Iran war violates international law, experts say

Sanchez described the US war on Iran as 'an extraordinary mistake'

Amid Iran war tensions

Spanish PM says 'cooperation' with US should prevail over 'confrontation'

Switzerland is sticking with its F-35A fighter jet order but wants to reduce the number from 36 to around 30

Swiss eyeing fewer F-35 fighters, reshaping defence set-up

The UK is investigating a raft of sexual assault and human trafficking allegations involving late business magnate Mohamed Al-Fayed

'Human trafficking'

UK police question three women in Al-Fayed probe

The announcement follows a drawn-out pursuit of The Telegraph, which is 170 years old

Germany's Axel Springer swoops for British newspaper The Telegraph

Smoke rises over Tehran on March 5

Life under bombardment

Voices from Iran: protests, fear and scarcity

Ukraine has built up an industry developing interceptors that can down drones like those used by Iran against the Gulf states

Expert heading to Gulf

This is how Ukraine has countered Russia's Iran-designed drones

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