Real Madrid stars Kylian Mbappé, Vinicius Junior and Ibrahima Konaté have sparked controversy in Spain after partially covering a pro-Ceuta solidarity message on their pre-match T-shirts. The incident has reignited debate over migration, Ceuta's r...

Mohamed Bakkali, convicted for coordinating logistics for the 2015 Paris attacks, could be granted parole in Belgium despite receiving a 30-year sentence in France with a 20-year minimum term. Belgian authorities will decide on September 29 whether ...

Emmanuel Macron is hosting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Jordan's King Abdullah II in Paris for talks on Lebanon's security and international support for the Lebanese army. The meeting comes as concerns grow over Israel's continued strikes in s...

The Trump administration is reportedly preparing a $2.8 billion arms package for Israel, including 40,000 bombs, as Israel continues strikes in Gaza despite last October's ceasefire. The proposed deal would further strengthen Israel's military capab...

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Mélusine Lebret, Researcher in the Defence, Security & Justice research group at RAND Europe. According to Lebret, the growing militarisation of space cannot be understood simply by asking whether a satellite is ...

The six-stanza rendition lasted more than three minutes, putting the 19th-century song at the centre of a modern debate over nationalism and religion in constitutionally secular India, home to 1.4 billion people. Some Indian players sang the openin...

The fashion-designing duo from Ukraine's "Bob Basset" art house were about to present Petrova's first ever collection -- an array of punk leather animal costumes. But with Russian jet-powered drones now crashing into Ukraine's capital on a daily ba...

"We will remember his extraordinary creativity, his warmth, his curiosity and the way he saw beauty and possibility everywhere," his son Adam Max said in a statement to ABC News. "His art became part of American culture, but the man behind that art...

Since June the tiny west African nation has been hobbled by prolonged blackouts, which have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, right at the peak of the hot season. Two nights of chaotic, spontaneous protests broke out last week with demonstrato...

More than 17,000 competitors and officials are expected at the continent's biggest sporting spectacular, which opens on Saturday in Nagoya. In a bid to cut costs, organisers are housing athletes and officials in temporary accommodation ranging from...

New HIV diagnoses surged to 2,016 cases in 2025 -- 16 times the level recorded in 2019, authorities said, vowing a "whole of government" response. "I am formally declaring a national HIV emergency in Fiji," Health Minister Atonio Lalabalavu told re...

North Korea has legally enshrined its status as a nuclear weapons state, with its leadership declaring the country's atomic arsenal permanent and irreversible. US President Donald Trump said in August that Pyongyang possesses 57 "very powerful" nuc...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told the National Press Club in Canberra that immigration was "fundamentally a strength" for Australia, but accepted that housing pressures required changes. He denied his ruling Labor party was tightening visa rule...

Last year was among the driest for the world's rivers in over three decades, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a report. In 2025 -- one of the warmest years on record -- glaciers also shrank across all regions, even as groundwater ...

Although a shaky truce was reached last October that halted the frenzied escalating tariff battle launched by Trump, a comprehensive and permanent deal has remained elusive. Here is where things stand ahead of the summit, which is expected to take ...