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Paris - A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the iconic Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its...

One year ago today, Bashar al-Assad's 24-year rule came to an end, bringing a close to 13 years of brutal civil war.On 8 December 2024, Assad stepped down as Syria's president and fled to Russia, marking one of the...

About 100 children who were abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria last month have been released, authorities say.Niger state's police chief, Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, and Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, who is in charge of the school as...

A South Korean court has sentenced a woman who blackmailed football star Son Heung-min to four years in prison. The woman in her 20s and her accomplice, a man in his 40s, were found guilty of blackmailing the...

Queensland Police ServiceProsecutors alleged this was an indication of his guilt. Though circumstantial, their case would show the evidence pointed to Singh "and eliminated others", the court heard.That evidence included DNA recovered from a stick at the scene which...

Japan has protested after Chinese fighter jets locked radars on Japanese aircraft as tensions between the two nations worsened.Locking radar onto an aircraft is considered a threat because it can signal a potential attack. Japan said there were two...

Jeremy BowenInternational EditorBBCA year ago, the war that President Bashar al-Assad seemed to have won was turned upside down.A rebel force had broken out of Idlib, a Syrian province on the border with Turkey, and was storming towards Damascus....

Claire MawisaBBC Africa Eye, Free StateBBCIn Meqheleng, a township on the outskirts of Ficksburg where black South Africans were forcibly relocated during the apartheid regime, Nthabiseng Nthathakana owns a small general store.On 15 January this year, there was a robbery...

Thailand launched airstrikes along the disputed border with Cambodia on Monday as both sides accused the other of breaking a ceasefire that halted fighting earlier this year. Longstanding border disputes erupted into five days of...

Bethlehem lights up 65-foot Christmas tree as Gaza ceasefire continues - CBS News ...