British Prime Minister Liz Truss has abruptly sacked her right-hand man, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

After days of intense destruction across Ukraine, Russia's Vladimir Putin says that he sees "no need" at this stage to conduct large-scale strikes, even hinting at withdrawing troops from part of the occupied south.

“She was also a significant contributor to the violence and tragedy that became the Manson Family’s legacy,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Chaos, soaring interest rates, the sacking her finance chief, and a press conference that reassures no one: the issue for Truss’s premiership now is that there doesn’t seem to be any point to it.

Demonstrations by people from all walks of life, after the Iranian Kurdish woman’s death following her arrest for “inappropriate attire”, have evolved into widespread calls for the downfall of the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The billionaire has been in online fights with Ukrainian officials over a peace plan he put forward that Ukraine says is too generous to Russia. 

A four-man NASA crew aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule have safely splashed down in waters off Florida after returning from space.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss faces the threat of being thrown out of office by her colleagues less than six weeks after becoming Conservative Party leader.

The protest at London’s National Gallery was the latest in a string of climate actions targeting galleries and museums.

Just Stop Oil activists have thrown tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers painting at London’s National Gallery.

Russia has launched more deadly air strikes against civilian targets across Ukraine.

The suspected shooter was able to elude officers for hours before he was cornered in a home and arrested.

The evacuation plea came as new images showed hundreds of Russian cargo trucks waiting to cross from Crimea into Russia by ferry after the Kerch bridge was destroyed.

The January 6 committee has hammered home the message that Trump’s bid to overturn the 2020 election was calculated, dangerous and downright unlawful.

The banners unfurled just days before the start of a twice-in-a-decade Communist Party congress, also called for an end to strict COVID-19 policies.

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The revelation emerged in video footage before the House January 6 committee subpoenaed Donald Trump for his testimony about the 2021 Capitol attack.

Former US President Donald Trump has been called to testify on last year’s Capitol riots.

As missiles struck Kyiv, Ukrainian officials were on the phone warning the West to pledge more support or allow Russia to win and impose its values on the rest of Europe.

Raising the children of war in another country or culture can be a marker of genocide, an attempt to erase a people’s very identity.