Month: September 2025

The head of Malawi’s electoral commission has warned political parties not to prematurely declare electoral victory, saying they should wait for the official results. Annabel Mtalimanja’s warning came after the parties of the two main presidential candidates, the incumbent Lazarus Chakwera and his predecessor Peter Mutharika, claimed they had won Tuesday’s poll. Speaking at a […]

Mallory Moench, Visual Journalism team, Simon Jackbusiness editor and Sean Coughlanroyal correspondent PA Beneath gilded portraits and suits of armour in Windsor Castle, 160 guests wined and dined at a lavish banquet to fete US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK on Wednesday evening. Along with the impeccable table settings, three-course […]

A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was stolen and melted down, Egypt’s interior ministry says. A restoration specialist took the artefact – which dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh who ruled Egypt around 1,000BC – from a safe at the museum nine days ago, according […]

Reuters Israeli aircraft carried out strikes along Gaza City’s Mediterranean coast on Thursday The situation in Gaza City is “nothing short of cataclysmic”, a UN official has told the BBC, as Israeli tanks and troops continue to advance on the third day of a ground offensive. Olga Cherevko, a spokeswoman for the UN’s humanitarian office, […]

Hundreds of thousands of workers are expected to take part in strike action across France on Thursday, after trade unions called for a day of protests against budget cuts. The interior ministry said between 600,000 and 900,000 people could attend demonstrations nationwide, adding it would deploy 80,000 police officers. Scuffles were reported in the cities […]

Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has said the Gaza Strip could be a “real estate bonanza” and that he is in talks with the US about dividing up the territory after the war – an idea previously condemned internationally. Speaking at an event in Tel Aviv, he said “a business plan is on President […]

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of spying on behalf of Russia, the Metropolitan Police has said. A 41-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were arrested at an address in Grays, Essex, the force said. A 46-year-old man was arrested at a separate address in the same area. All three were arrested on suspicion […]

Watch: Trump accuses journalist of “hurting Australia” Donald Trump has accused an Australian journalist of “hurting Australia” after he was asked about his business deals while in office. John Lyons from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) asked Trump how much wealthier he had become since returning to the White House in January during Trump’s state […]

A 20-day-old baby girl who was found buried alive in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is fighting for survival, hospital authorities say. She was found by chance when a shepherd, who had taken his goats to the area for grazing, heard faint cries coming from under a mound of earth. Once he went […]

Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty, Melanie Stewart-Smith and Victoria FarncombeFame Under Fire podcast Getty Images Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs Macron is a woman. Their lawyer says the French president and Mrs Macron will present the documentation in a defamation suit they […]