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Venezuela's historic amnesty is meant to clear the rap sheets of hundreds of people jailed for challenging the Maduro regime

Transition milestone?

Venezuela amnesty bill postponed amid row over application

Angus Taylor photographed in Melbourne in 2021

Former energy minister

Australia's Liberals elect net zero opponent as new leader

The fires that tore through the Los Angeles area in January 2025 left a deep and lasting scar

LA fires: California probes late warnings in Black neighborhoods

America's Chloe Kim won Olympic silver in the women's snowboard halfpipe final

New halfpipe champion

US snowboard star Kim 'proud' as teenager Choi dethrones her at Olympics

Chloe Kim (L) was relegated to silver medal position in the Olympic halfpipe by South Korea's Choi Gaon (C) while Japan's Mitsuki Ono took bronze

Teenager Choi wrecks Kim's Olympic snowboard hat-trick bid

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that human-caused global warming is a 'hoax'

Greenhouse gases

Trump dismantles legal basis for US climate rules

More than 18,000 homes were destroyed in the cyclone, according to the BNRGC, with over 50,000 damaged or flooded

Moving to Mozambique

Death toll in Madagascar cyclone rises to 38, 12,000 displaced

The mass shooting has rattled the tiny town of Tumbler Ridge, home to only 2,400 people

Questions remain

Neighbor of Canada mass shooter grieves after 'heartbreaking' attack

Federal agents detain a protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3, 2026

Trump ends immigration crackdown in Minnesota

Gulcin Kaya, who lost her son Taylan Kaya in the fire confronted Jacques Moretti on the street in Sion

Criminal investigation into the deadly blaze

Swiss bar owners face wrath of bereaved families

German director Wim Wenders is the head of the jury at this year's Berlinale film festival

Less glamour, more content, says Wim Wenders of Berlin Film Fest

Iranian security chief Ali Larijani held talks in mediator Oman

Between diplomacy and threats

What is going on with Iran-US talks?

The whiskers on the trunks of elephants have unique properties that grant them a highly evolved sense of touch

Amplified sense of touch

The secret to an elephant's grace? Whiskers

This long exposure picture taken on December 23, 2017 shows the Andromeda galaxy -- where researchers believe they have witnessed the collapse of a dying star into a black hole

'Failed supernova'

Chance glimpse of star collapse offers new insight into black hole formation

UN climate chief Simon Stiell said 'the very concept of international cooperation is under attack'

'Unprecedented threat'

UN climate chief says 'new world disorder' threatens cooperation

Dozens of cases against oil copmanies modeled on successful actions against the tobacco industry in the 1990s are playing out in state and local courts -- including claims of injuries, failure-to-warn, and even racketeering

'Get out of jail free card'

US lawmaker moves to shield oil companies from climate cases

India's Ishan Kishan reached his fifty off 20 balls

India tune-up for Pakistan showdown with 93-run rout of Namibia

Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych's wears the helmet during a training session at Cortina Sliding Centre in Cortina d'Ampezzo on February 9, 2026

Disinformation campaign

Ukraine says Russia behind fake posts targeting Winter Olympics team

University students who oppose the Venezuelan government march on Youth Day in Caracas on February 12, 2026

'We are not afraid'

Thousands of Venezuelans stage march for end to repression

Ubisoft's star has fallen with investors in recent months

Amid restructuring

'Avatar' and 'Assassin's Creed' shore up troubled Ubisoft

In a first, women without hijab were seen at the rally

Accused of hypocrisy

Iranian state TV's broadcast of women without hijab angers critics

Afghan director and actress Shahrbanoo Sadat laughs as she attends a press conference for the film "No Good Men" presented in Berlinale Special Gala at the 76th Berlinale.

Are there good men in Afghanistan?

'Naive optimist' opens Berlin Film Festival with Afghan romantic comedy

Workers are restoring the luxurious 1st century BC residence of Poppaea Sabina

Surprisingly vibrant colours

'Virgin' frescoes emerge from Pompeii suburb

International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry had tears in her eyes after failing to persuade a disqualified Ukrainian skeleton racer from wearing a helmet adorned with pictures of Ukrainians killed in the war with Russia

Memorial helmet

Ukrainian's disqualification from Winter Olympics gives Coventry first test

NATO said it was starting an Arctic Sentry mission to increase security in the region

As Greenland storm passes, US allies focus on stepping up in NATO

The plan for 2025 to 2035 foresees more use of the country's 57 nuclear power plants

France bets on nuclear power to phase out fossil fuels

Shocking footage

Shanghai road collapses into sinkhole during metro construction

This photo from London's Metropolitan Police shows former nursery care worker Vincent Chan, who has admitted charges including sexual assault

Admitted to 56 charges

UK nursery worker jailed for 18 years for 'wicked' serial child sex abuse

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