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No more Gen Z, Alpha: A new generation of humanity starts in 2025
As we head into the new year, we’ll also be meeting a new generation: Generation Beta.You’re likely familiar with the generations that have come before this:...
Akufo-Addo mourns Jimmy Carter
President Nana Akufo-Addo has paid glowing tribute to former United States(U.S) President Jimmy Carter following his death.In a statement, Akufo-Addo eulogised Mr Carter as...
Teen sentenced to life in prison for classmate’s death
A Chinese court has sentenced two teenagers over the deathly of their classmate in March.The teens in Hebei province, identified only by their surnames...
Biden and Trump lead tributes to ‘extraordinary’ Jimmy Carter after death
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have led tributes to former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, who has died aged 100.Carter,...
South Korea plane crash kills 179 with investigation into cause under way
All passengers and most of the crew onboard a Jeju Air flight have died after the plane crash-landed at an airport in South Korea...
Former US President, Jimmy Carter dies aged 100
Former US President Jimmy Carter has died aged 100, the centre he founded has confirmed.
The former peanut farmer lived longer than any President in...
Man planning to propose to girlfriend dies in Christmas Day house fire while searching for the ring
A California man who was planning to propose to his girlfriend on New Year's Eve died during a Christmas Day house fire after searching...
Three migrants die attempting to cross Channel
Three people have died attempting to cross the English Channel in a small boat on Sunday morning, the French coastguard says.People ended up in...
Three dead in suspected Christmas cake poisoning
Arsenic has been found in the blood of one of three women who died after eating a Christmas cake in a suspected poisoning in...
Georgia’s outgoing President refuses to quit as successor sworn in
Thousands of Georgians are protesting in the capital Tbilisi as a new President allied with the ruling Georgian Dream party was inaugurated.Mikheil Kavelashvili, a...
Trump sides with tech bosses in Maga fight over immigrant visas
President-elect Donald Trump appeared to side with technology bosses, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in a row over a visa programme that brings skilled...
Thousands protest in Georgia as new president sworn in
Thousands of Georgians are protesting in the capital Tbilisi as a new President allied with the ruling Georgian Dream party was inaugurated.Mikheil Kavelashvili, a...
Romeo and Juliet actress Olivia Hussey dies aged 73
Actress Olivia Hussey, who shot to international prominence as a teenager for her role in the acclaimed 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet,...
Putin apologises for plane crash, without saying Russia at fault
Russia's President Vladimir Putin has apologised to the President of neighbouring Azerbaijan for the downing of a commercial airliner in Russian airspace, in which...
Apple cancels iPhone 14 and iPhone SE for millions of users in 29 countries
Apple currently offers three iPhones with a Lightning connector: the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, and iPhone SE 3rd generation.All three have just been...
Azerbaijan says plane hit by ‘external interference’ over Russia before crash
Azerbaijan's transport minister has said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed on 25 December was subjected to "external interference" and damaged inside and out,...
At least 69 migrants dead after boat sank off Morocco, Mali says
At least 69 people died, including 25 Malian nationals, after a boat headed from West Africa to Spain capsized off Morocco on Dec. 19,...
South Korea MPs file motion to impeach acting President
South Korea's opposition lawmakers have filed a motion to impeach the country's prime minister and acting leader Han Duck-soo, less than two weeks after...
Mozambique’s opposition leader vows to install himself as President
Mozambique's main opposition leader, Venâncio Mondlane, has declared that he will install himself as president on 15 January after rejecting his defeat in presidential...
Church of England must repent, leading cleric says at Christmas
The Church of England's second most senior cleric Stephen Cottrell will call in a Christmas sermon on Wednesday for repentance and change within an...
Passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashes with many feared dead
An Embraer passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan on Wednesday with 67 passengers and five...
Three shot dead as gunmen attack Haiti hospital
At least three people have been killed when armed men in Haiti opened fire at medical staff, police and journalists during a briefing to...
Former US President Bill Clinton admitted to hospital with fever
Former US President Bill Clinton has been admitted to a hospital after developing a fever, according to a spokesman for the Democrat."He remains in...
Anything, everything I can do; I’ll do for God – Denzel Washington after baptism
Denzel Washington is celebrating a big moment for him and his faith.The Oscar-winning actor, 69, was baptised and received a minister's license at the...
Trump wants mass deportations; a ride-along with immigration officers shows the challenges
The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead, and then an officer’s voice...
Spacecraft attempts closest ever approach to Sun
A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest ever approach to the Sun.
The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's...
Honda and Nissan join forces to challenge Chinese EV market
Honda and Nissan plan to merge as the two Japanese firms seek to fight back against competition from the Chinese car industry.
Joining forces would...
Man charged with murder for setting woman ablaze on NYC subway
A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train...
Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth remains
Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the...
Biden commutes most federal death sentences
US President, Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison...
Woman dies after being set on fire
A man has been arrested in New York in connection with the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway...
Cyclone Chido kills 94 people in Mozambique
Cyclone Chido has killed 94 people in Mozambique since it made landfall in the east African country last week, local authorities have said.
The country's National...
US deportations under Biden surpass Trump’s record
US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump's first term...
Malaysia approves new search for missing flight MH370
Getty Images A file picture of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 - similar to the one which operated flight MH370Getty ImagesThe Malaysian government says...
Four French nationals released following mediation by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has facilitated the release of four French nationals detained in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, since December 2023.The Ministry of Foreign...
Pope assassination plot foiled by UK intelligence
A plot to assassinate Pope Francis during a trip to Iraq was stopped following a tip-off from British intelligence, according to his upcoming autobiography.The...
‘Everybody wants to be my friend,’ Trump says of CEOs
US president-elect, Donald Trump has said that people who were his enemies in his first term, now want to be his friend.In his first...
Driver jailed for killing 3 teenage passengers after inhaling laughing gasÂ
A driver who inhaled laughing gas at the wheel has been jailed for nine years and four months after he admitted killing his three...
Bitcoin hits new record high of more than $106,000
Bitcoin has surged to a new record high, extending a rally that has seen the cryptocurrency's price rise by more than 50% since Donald...
Why a nation of 1.45 billion wants more children
Last year, India nudged past China to become the world's most populous country, according to UN estimates.
With nearly 1.45 billion people now, you'd think...