On the night of 6 December, Mohammed el-Nadaf, a soldier in the Syrian army, was at his position in Homs. As rebels led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) pushed into…
A plane carrying 181 passengers has crashed at an airport in South Korea, killing at least 85 people, the country's fire service has said. The aircraft came off the runway…
Three-quarters of all ports in Peru have been closed because of huge waves lashing the coast. Beaches are closed and fishing boats have been prevented for heading out to sea…
The last major functioning hospital in northern Gaza was forcibly evacuated by the Israeli military on Friday after dozens of people were reported killed in Israeli strikes targeting the area.…
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said he and his colleagues "escaped death narrowly" while being caught up in an Israeli air strike on an airport…
World chess number one Magnus Carlsen has quit a major tournament after being told he could not carry on playing while wearing jeans. The chess great had been defending his…
US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to delay an upcoming TikTok ban while he works on a "political resolution". His lawyer filed a legal brief on…
This has been a miserable year for Boeing. Not only has it struggled to cope with a safety and quality control crisis, it has lost billions of dollars following a…
"The Chinese people are so miserable," read a social media post in the wake of yet another mass killing in the country earlier this year. The same user also warned:…
High-profile supporters of President-elect Donald Trump clashed online over a visa programme intended to bring skilled tech workers to the US - a preview of possible tensions in the upcoming…
