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Keir Starmer has been UK prime minister since July 2024

'Get on with governing'

UK PM Starmer resists calls to quit as Labour divided

Kevin Warsh has had a tumultuous relationship with the economic behemoth he now heads

Kevin Warsh returns to Federal Reserve with 'regime change' agenda

Tourists take in the scenery in the remote southern Argentine port of Ushuaia, from where the hantavirus-struck MV Hondius set sail

City 'at the end of the world'

Fabled Argentine city Ushuaia tries to shrug off virus suspicions

Wine consumption has fallen by 14 percent since 2018 due to shifting social habits and a difficult economic environment

Going down smoothly

Wine consumption slides in 2025

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine say nearly $29 billion has been spent by the military on the war against Iran

Mounting scrutiny

Pentagon says US cost of Iran war nearing $29 billion

Putin said Sarmat could carry a warhead four times more powerful than anything Western militaries possessed

Capable of carrying nuclear warheads

Russia tests long-range missile after US nuclear treaty expires

This screen grab taken from an AFP Video on May 12, 2026, shows a wild peacock standing on a roof in Punta Marina

Wild peacocks bring delight, despair to Italian village

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell welcomed confirmation progress for Kevin Warsh, seen here earlier this month at a hearing in the US Congress

Taking the reins later this week

US Senate confirms Trump-nominee Warsh to Federal Reserve board

Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Ecuador's former foreign minister, is the fifth person to be nominated to become the next UN chief

To succeed António Guterres

Former Ecuadoran top diplomat enters race for UN chief

Writer Paul Laverty railed at Hollywood at the Cannes Film Festival

Arrested at pro-Palestine protest

'Shame on Hollywood': Cannes-winning writer rails at stance on Gaza

The M/V Dali struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning of March 26, 2024

Left six people dead

Singaporean, Indian firms face criminal charges over Maryland bridge crash

Germany's culture minister wants Europe to follow the US on TikTok

Following in US footsteps

Germany wants to put TikTok 'in European hands'

Two-time major winner and reigning LIV Golf champion Jon Rahm of Spain says LIV's loss of Saudi funding beyond this year will not be a distraction at the PGA Championship

Rahm has faith LIV will develop good survival plan

World number two Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, the two-time reigning Masters champion, says he has a clearer mental focus for the PGA Championship than a year ago after taking his first green jacket

McIlroy has 'clear road ahead' to win more majors

Shio III will head one of the most powerful institutions in Georgia

Attended ex-Soviet top political leaders

Georgia enthrones new leader of powerful Orthodox Church

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking due to climate change

Amid climate change and tourism threats

Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctic talks start in Japan

Images of Josephine Baker projected onto the Pantheon in Paris when she was honoured as one of France's national heroes

British music star

Singer FKA twigs to play Josephine Baker in biopic of anti-racist legend

A Samsung Electronics semiconductor factory. A top South Korean official has proposed a tax on excess AI profits to be resdistributed among society

Shifting towards 'technology monopoly economy'

South Korea official floats AI profit social tax as tech giants boom

Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers says his country will avoid a recession even if oil prices spiral higher

In budget speech

Australia's economy 'hostage' to Mideast war: treasurer

Our greatest nemesis? By transmitting diseases, mosquitoes kill three quarters of a million people a year

Our greatest nemesis?

What if we killed all mosquitoes?

Residents of Khallet al-Dabaa and other hamlets in the West Bank's Masafer Yatta region have for years contended with violence

One death a week, on average

UN condemns child death toll from Israel's West Bank operations

Andrew Forrest, chairman of Fortescue iron ore mining group which has been ordered to pay compensation to the Yindjibarndi people in Western Australia's Pilbara region

Indigenous Australians awarded major compensation in mining dispute

Ballet costumes are displayed as part of the exhibition 'The Music is Black: A British Story' at the new V&A East Museum in east London

New London museum woos younger visitors

UNICEF, which conducts nutrition programs in developing nations, says obesity in 2025 is surpassing undernourishment as the leading form of malnutrition for youths age five to 19

Following UNICEF report

Economic inequality harms children’s well-being in world's richest countries

Victims of a strike on a drug rehab centre in Kabul are burried in a mass grave on Badam Bagh Hilltop on March 26

Cross-border violence

Over 370 Afghan civilians killed in Pakistan conflict in three months: UN

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping are expected to meet to discuss formalising a truce on tariffs they shook hands on at a meeting in South Korea in October

'Genuine urgency': China's underlying concerns at the Xi-Trump talks

Japanese professional baseball umpire Takuto Kawakami was struck by a bat last month

Remains unconscious one month on

Japan baseball to punish dangerous swings after umpire hit

Burkina Faso military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore (C) says he is leading a 'popular progressive revolution'

Promoting local artists

Even DJs don't escape junta's 'revolution' in Burkina Faso

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