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Pope Leo meets with Villanova and Notre Dame basketball teams at the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV met on Saturday with the basketball teams from Villanova and Notre Dame, along with thousands of U.S. fans in Italy, ahead of the two Catholic universities' season opener later this weekend.About 7,000...
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Watch: Blood donors get a Halloween fright in Thailand
Thai Red Cross workers dressed up as part of a Halloween-themed blood drive in the country's capital Bangkok.The charity gave free themed t-shirts to donors as part of the event, and said it expected turnout to more than double...
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Evacuated Ukrainians from Russian-occupied Oleshky arrive in Belarus
Residents evacuated from the devastated Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have arrived in Belarus and are expected back in Ukraine later on Saturday, authorities have said.They were taken out on Friday during a local ceasefire brokered by US First Lady...
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Watch: How US mail-in ballots are secured and counted for the midterm election
Ahead of the US midterm elections on 3 November, President Trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims that mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud.US states have different voting rules and regulations - but every state allows some postal voting, a...
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U.S. approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine, but Zelenskyy warns deliveries would take years
The State Department approved on Friday the sale of 500 Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine at...
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Spain train disaster clouds Pedro Sánchez chances of re-election
Crucially, at one point a controller instructed a stalled train to restart, clearing it to advance at up to 160km/h (100 mph) even though a second train was stuck on the line up ahead.The impending collision was clear from...
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Joseph Kabila: Former president becomes DR Congo’s latest rebel leader
Policy analyst Henry-Pacifique Mayala told the BBC that Kabila had been left with few options for regaining political influence."He actually was left with no other choice," he said.Facing a death sentence after being convicted in absentia of treason, as...
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Trump’s tariffs could shut this Canadian town. Its residents are fighting to save it
As you cross the Ottawa river into Témiscaming, Quebec, the paper mill takes up much of the horizon.The town itself was built over a century ago, around the mill and the region's forests filled with pine, birch, spruce...
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Why North Korea’s ‘elite’ hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hack
Two major blockchain analytics firms say they have robust intelligence pointing to a North Korean state-backed group as the likely culprits in the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) hack of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.The Lazarus Group, a North Korean hacking...
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Three dead after two helicopters collide midair near Oregon airport
Three people have died after two helicopters collided midair near a small airport in Oregon, officials said.The collision involving a Robinson R22 and an Airbus helicopter occurred near McMinnville Municipal Airport on Thursday afternoon. Both aircraft crashed in a...
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Pope Leo says he voted in U.S. election because he’s “proud to be an American”
Pope Leo XIV, who became the first sitting pontiff to vote in a U.S. election,...