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Residents of Gulf cities could watch missiles and air defence interceptors criss crossing their skies during the strikes, as here in Abu Dhabi

Hurriedly evacuated

Residents flee as Iran missiles stun peaceful Gulf cities

The joint US-Israeli strikes targeted Iran's leadership and its ballistic missile programme

'More complex and more complicated'

Could the US-Israel war on Iran drag on?

At a demonstration in Istanbul, police stopped the crowd from approaching Iran's consulate

Living in exile

Iranians abroad jittery but jubilant at US, Israeli strikes

Pakistan's captain Salman Agha shows his disappointment as his side were knocked outof the T20 World Cup

Pakistan 'have underperformed' says Agha after T20 World Cup exit

Vietnam' National Assembly passed the law, which requires human oversight of generative AI, in December

Comprehensive framework

Vietnam AI law takes effect, first in Southeast Asia

The US Capitol is the seat of Congress, where lawmakers offered both praise and criticism of President Donald Trump's order to strike arch-foe Iran

"Operation Epic Fury"

Republicans back Trump, Democrats attack 'illegal' Iran war

Pakistan players leave the field after their T20 World Cup came to an end in Kandy

New Zealand into T20 World Cup semis as Sri Lanka avoid big Pakistan loss

President Donald Trump maes a video address on Iran

'It will be yours to take'

In Iran attack, Trump seeks what he foreswore -- regime change

Some pro-goverbment protestors waved national flags during a demonstration in support of the government, but US and Israeli strikes and a striong security presence drove many Iranians to seek shelter

Despite negotiations

Streets empty and shops close as US strikes confirm Iranian fears

Israelis were taking shelter underground for the second time in less than a year

Israelis shelter underground as Iran fires missiles

This photograph shows the scaffolding covered with a canvas reproducing Michelangelo's Last Judgment during a press visit of the rare restoration of the fresco in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on February 28, 2026.

Climate change forces facelift for Michelangelo masterpiece

US President Donald Trump with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week

International news ticker

Hegseth fires top army general; Man arrested for setting off pyrotechnics in German train, injuring 12

Denis Sassou-Nguesso is one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, after Paul Biya of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo

Contested elections

Congo-Brazzaville president vows to keep power as campaign kicks off

President Donald Trump maes a video address on Iran

'The hour of your freedom is at hand'

Trump says US aims to destroy Iran's military, topple government

Smoke rose above Tehran after explosions were heard

'Major combat operation'

US and Israel strike Tehran, retaliatory blasts heard across Middle East

Philip Crowther on Ukraine

'Ukrainians are proud of what they have achieved over the past four years'

Inter Miami will visit the White House in March to mark the club's 2025 MLS Cup triumph, with Argentine superstar Lionel Messi expected to attend

Following MLS Cup triumph

Messi's Inter Miami to visit White House: US media

Zimbabwe fans celebrate the victory over Australia in Colombo

'It's surreal': Zimbabwe superfans revel in unexpected ride to India

The parsonage where the Brontes lived stands between the village of Haworth and the moors

'Completely besotted'

New 'Wuthering Heights' film unleashes fresh wave of Bronte-mania

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's deal with the Pentagon comes after Trump lashed out at AI rival Anthropic over its proposed terms of use - though the deal appears to have similar safeguards the US previously balked at

OpenAI strikes Pentagon deal with 'safeguards' as Trump dumps Anthropic

Responders study the wreckage of a Bolivian military transport plane that crashed near La Paz and skidded off the runway on February 27 2026, killing at least 15 people

Veered off runway

15 dead as cash-packed military plane crashes in Bolivia

Rebeca Grynspan believes she has a high probability of winning the contest to become the UN secretary-general

'We are very optimistic'

Costa Rica's Grynspan pledges reform in bid for UN chief job

Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, pictured at the US Open tennis tournament in New York in September 2022, was a master songsmith whose catalog included early pop hits and easy-listening standards

Neil Sedaka, US singer and songwriter, dies age 86

David Ellison, the chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Skydance, at the US Capitol in Washington

Still faces regulatory hurdles

Paramount acquires Warner Bros. in $110 bn mega-merger

Clinton features prominently throughout the latest Epstein files disclosures, with the former president denying any wrongdoing

'I saw nothing'

Bill Clinton denies wrongdoing at grilling on Epstein ties

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces changes to the US Artemis lunar program

2028 goal unchanged

NASA announces overhaul of Artemis lunar program amid technical delays

At the heart of the North Dakota case against Greenpeace was the Dakota Access Pipeline, where from 2016 to 2017 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe led one of the largest anti-fossil fuel protests in US history

'Chilling attack' on climate action

Court orders Greenpeace to pay $345 mn to US oil pipeline company

Emergency teams evacuate a body bag at the site of a tram derailment in Milan

Investigations ongoing

Two dead, dozens injured as tram derails in Milan

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