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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which lifted off Sunday, is at the heart of Jeff Bezos's space ambitions as he competes with Elon Musk's SpaceX

'Mishap investigation'

Blue Origin probing rocket's failure to deliver satellite

After wrapping up his trip to Angola, Pope Leo XIV heads to Equatorial Guinea

Papal Africa tour

Pope blasts 'exploitation' as he wraps up tour of Angola

Kanye West at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. The US rapper said he is postponing a planned concernt in France

St. Jakob-Park ground

Swiss football club turn down Kanye West concert approach

D4vd shot to fame in 2022 when his 'Romantic Homicide' became a breakout hit on TikTok

15-year-old victim

Singer D4vd charged with murder over teen's body found in Tesla

US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine speaks as a map of the Strait of Hormuz is displayed during a press briefing

Despite ceasefire

Tit-for-tat blockades once again cripple traffic in Hormuz

Turkey has been shaken by two deadly school shootings

Restrictions on gun ownership

Erdogan vows new measures after deadly Turkey school shootings

Divers and helpers try to rescue a stranded humpback whale on March 26, 2026 before it managed overnight to swim into deeper waters

Struggle for survival

Whale stranded on German coast swims off, gets stuck again

Including Luxembourg-based site

International operation targets 75,000 cybercrime suspects

Iran has put immense emphasis on the strategic value of Hormuz

'Who will blink first?'

Iran pulling Hormuz 'lever' to maximum in US standoff

Argentine cinema, theater and television legend Luis Brandoni has died at the age of 86

'Sad day for our culture'

Argentine film and theater great Luis Brandoni dies at 86

D'MSC Euribia ass mat Zäite prett fir d'Päischtcroisière

Pentecost cruise unaffected

MSC Euribia resumes journey after blockade in Strait of Hormuz

Prosecutors summoned billionaire Elon Musk for a voluntary interview as part of a French probe into X

Unclear if he will appear

Elon Musk snubs Paris prosecutors' summons over X and Grok

French Interior ministry confirms

Data breach at French ANTS portal exposes personal user information

Morris positioned man as part of the animal world -- a radical idea at the time for a public brought up to think of homo sapiens as derived from the divine

Desmond Morris: from 'Naked Ape' to watching 'Big Brother'

Russia denies wrongdoing

Europol 'hackathon' traces 45 forcibly deported Ukrainian kids

British singer Amy Winehouse pictured during a 2007 concert in France

Amy Winehouse's father loses suit against friends selling her clothes

Robert Golob's party secured a razor-thin majority in parliamentary elections last month

Razor-thin majority

Slovenian liberal Golob fails to form government

People walk past a banner in Jerusalem depicting US President Donald Trump with the slogan 'The Deliverer'

Stay up-to-date

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Iran is the world's second most prolific executioner after China, according to rights groups based outside the country

On charges of spying for Israel

Iran executes two more members of exiled opposition: group

Pope Leo XIV's trip to Angola is the third stop in a four-nation tour of Africa

Third stop in four-nation tour of Africa

Pope Leo visits Angola's diamond-rich northeast

A TV monitor shows the earthquake that struck off the coast of Iwate Prefecture, Japan, on 20 April 2026. Around 4:53 pm on that day, an earthquake with its epicenter off the coast of Sanriku occurred.

Evacuation call issued

Tsunami warning as major quake hits northern Japan, shakes Tokyo

Philippine and US soldiers salute as their national anthems are played during the opening ceremony of the annual Balikatan military exercise at Camp Aguinaldo in Manila on Monday

Annual military exercises

US begins 'biggest ever' Philippines war games in thick of Mideast conflict

EU Commissioner

EU must speed up energy transition and support citizens

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah applauds the crowd after the Premier League win at Everton.

Headline-makers in major European leagues

African players in Europe: Goals for Salah, Beto in Merseyside derby

Mohammad Rashid (R) standing outside his house with a newly-built private bunker

Conflict worst in decades

Anxiety lingers in divided Kashmir a year after shooting attack

Comedian Satoru Saito poses at a "yankii" event in Japan -- a subculture of hot-blooded teens who rebelled against society in the heady 1980s

Pop-culture darlings

Hit reality show helps rev up Japan's delinquent youth subculture

Security had been visibly stepped up in Islamabad ahead of the expected US-Iran talks

War in the Middle East: latest developments

This handout photo released by US Central Command shows AH-64 Apaches flying above the Strait of Hormuz during a patrol on April 17, 2026

Hours after reopening it

Iran not planning to attend talks with US in Pakistan

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