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India's AI summit has been attended by tens of thousands of people

Fourth annual gathering

OpenAI's Altman tells leaders regulation 'urgently' needed

Some lawmakers are pushing to formally strip Andrew of his Duke of York title

Disgraced former prince

UK police hold ex-prince Andrew for hours in misconduct probe

The war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people

Fact-finding mission

UN Sudan probe finds 'hallmarks of genocide' in El-Fasher

The donor who gave the city of Osaka 21 kilogrmas of gold wishes to remain anonymous

Unusual donation

Japan city gets $3.6 mn donation in gold to fix water system

This handout photo released by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps's official website Sepanews shows a rocket being fired during a military exercise by the Guards and and the navy in the Strait of Hormuz

Rising tensions

Facing US warnings, Iran defends right to nuclear enrichment

Yoon Suk Yeol's bid to impose military rule in South Korea lasted just six hours, but triggered widespread panic

Failed bid to impose military rule

Ex-South Korea leader Yoon gets life in prison for insurrection

Rescue workers recover a victim’s body from the debris of a collapsed building in Karachi

At least 16 killed after building collapses in Pakistan following blast

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi

OpenAI's Altman says world 'urgently' needs AI regulation

Jose Jeri was impeached barely four months into his term, setting Peru up for its eighth president in a decade

Seventh president in 10 years

Peru picks Balcazar as interim president, eighth leader in a decade

Afsin‑Elbistan is one of Turkey's most polluting power plants but the government is seeking to expand it despite its role hosting the COP31 climate summit later this year

Government 'must choose'

Turkey fires up coal pollution even as it hosts COP31

Snert is a traditional soup, a staple of the Dutch diet for decades

Culinary staples

Pea soup, veggie mash contest warms up Dutch winter

Vehicles wait in line to refuel at a gas station in Havana

To end government's monopoly

Private companies seek to import fuel amid Cuban energy crisis

Yoon Suk Yeol rose from a star prosecutor to South Korea's president in a few years.

Avoided death penalty

South Korea's Yoon: from rising star to jailed ex-president

India's Abhishek Sharma is clean bowled against the Netherlands for a third straight duck

Peaking at the right time

India search for 'perfect game' as South Africa loom in Super Eights

'Political Ash Wednesday'

Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz endorses European cooperation in Trier on Wednesday

An Airbus A350-1000 at the Singapore Airshow on February 4. The company said Thursday it aims to deliver a record number of aircraft this year

'Strong demand'

Airbus planning record commercial aircraft deliveries in 2026

An Indigenous guard from the Nasa community takes part in the caravan of Indigenous leader Esneyder Gomez Salamanca, a candidate for a Peace Seat in Congress, in the Naya region, department of Cauca, Colombia

Election on 8 March

Elections under fire: Colombia endures deadliest campaign in decades

Emergency workers look on as raw sewage flows out of a drainage pipe into the C&O Canal near Cabin John, Maryland, after more than 200 million gallons of wastewater spilled into the Potomac River

'Abandoned and neglected'

Washington mayor seeks White House aid on giant sewage spill

Australia's ABC says some HungryPanda food delivery drivers in Australia have been pressured by Chinese police

Australia rejects foreign threats after claim of China interference

People in Svalbard are going about their daily lives despite speculation the Norwegian archipelago could be the next Arctic territory coveted by Washington

Coveted Arctic region

After Greenland, Arctic island Svalbard wary of great powers

Somalian security officers pray at a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Mogadishu

Somali militias terrorise locals after driving out Al-Qaeda

A DroneShield team member is holding a DroneGun Mk4 pointed at a drone during a visit to DroneShield in Sydney on February 9, 2026

Highly valued company

Australian defence firm helps Ukraine zap Russian drones

An Afghan barber trims a customer's beard at a salon in Kabul

Strict Taliban laws

Afghan barbers under pressure as morality police take on short beards

Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, 55, has been living in exile in Miami, Florida since October 2025

Living in exile

Cuban opposition figure Ferrer supports Maduro-like US operation for Cuba

Balendra Shah (R), Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) election candidate and Kathmandu's former mayor greets supporters during a door-to-door election campaign at Gauriganj in Jhapa district on February 16, 2026

Landmark nationwide polls

High-stakes showdown in Nepal's post-uprising polls

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened military action against Iran

Following indirect talks

White House tells Iran to do deal as Trump hints at US strikes

Little is left of the once sprawling acacia forest south of Sudan's capital

Affecting vast stretches

Sudan's historic acacia forest devastated as war fuels logging

Flooding and landslides made worse by deforestation killed over 1,000 people in Sumatra last year

Unprecedented government action

Deadly Indonesia floods force a deforestation reckoning

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