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Investigators raided South Korea's spy agency on Tuesday as they probed possible government links to a drone shot down over North Korea earlier this year.

Planned or under-construction solar and wind projects slowed last year, analysis showed Tuesday, casting doubts on whether countries will hit a goal of tripling renewable capacity by decade-end.

The 76th edition of the Berlin Film Festival opens on Thursday, featuring productions from over 80 countries and with German film legend Wim Wenders presiding over this year's jury.

Cade Cunningham scored 33 points as the Detroit Pistons ended the Charlotte Hornets' nine-game winning streak on Monday with a stormy 110-104 victory overshadowed by a mass brawl that saw four players ejected.

The planet experienced its fifth-hottest January on record despite a cold snap that swept across the United States and Europe, the EU's climate monitor said Tuesday.

Asian shares extended gains Tuesday following a Wall Street rally, with Tokyo's Nikkei jumping more than two percent to another record following Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's stunning election triumph.

Standing in his boat with binoculars in hand, hunter Malik Kleist scans the horizon for seals. But this February, the sea ice in southwestern Greenland has yet to freeze, threatening traditional livelihoods like his.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 315 seats in weekend snap elections, giving it a two-thirds majority, official results confirmed Tuesday.

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom faced pressure Monday from labor unions frustrated with the carrier's financial performance and handling of recent weather disruptions.

Simba, a large cat with thick ginger and white fur, is one of thousands of felines that live in New York's corner shops known as "bodegas" -- even if their presence is illegal.

Japan has filed an official protest with Olympic organisers after the figure skating medal podium at the Milan-Cortina Games left athletes with chipped skate blades following the team competition.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has defended a Winter Olympian's right to wear a helmet featuring athletes killed during the war with Russia after skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych said the IOC banned it at the Games.

Meta and Google-owned YouTube were accused Monday of pushing highly addictive apps on children as a landmark social media trial began in earnest in a California court.

President Donald Trump called Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance a "slap in the face" to the United States.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell refused on Monday to answer questions from US lawmakers but her attorney said was prepared to speak if granted clemency by President Donald Trump.

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Australia's Prime Minister said Tuesday he was "devastated" by scenes of clashes at a Sydney rally against a visit by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, but defended the police's actions against protesters.

US ski star Lindsey Vonn said on Monday she had suffered a "complex tibia fracture" when she crashed in the Winter Olympics downhill and would need "multiple surgeries".

Mexican prosecutors on Monday confirmed the deaths of five of 10 employees of a Canadian mining company who were kidnapped two weeks ago in Mexico's violence-plagued Sinaloa state.

US lawmakers began reviewing the unredacted files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Monday, and expressed concern that some names have been removed from the records which have been released to the public.

French ice dancers Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry surged to a surprise lead over world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates after the rhythm dance section in the Olympic figure skating competition on Monday.

MrBeast, the world's most popular YouTuber, has purchased a Gen Z-focused banking app, he said Monday, marking another addition to his sprawling business interests.

French ice dancers Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry surged to a surprise lead over world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates after the rhythm dance section in the Olympic figure skating competition on Monday.

US ski star Lindsey Vonn said on Monday she had suffered a "complex tibia fracture" when she crashed in the Winter Olympics downhill and would need "multiple surgeries".

A US TV host whose family has been at the center of national attention for a week since her elderly mother was apparently kidnapped said Monday she and her siblings had reached "an hour of desperation."

Two goals from on-loan Donyell Malen drove Roma to a 2-0 win over Cagliari on Monday, lifting them level with fourth-placed Juventus in Serie A.

Emmy-winning actress Catherine O'Hara, who starred in "Schitt's Creek" and "Home Alone," died from a blood clot in her lungs, her death certificate revealed Monday.

Unheralded German Philipp Raimund soared to an unexpected ski jumping gold at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics on Monday and declared it "the best day of my life".

The US Justice Department opened the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files to review by members of Congress on Monday as several lawmakers expressed concern that some names have been removed from the publicly released records.

Nearly seven years after his death by suicide in a New York prison, sex offender tycoon Jeffrey Epstein is still tarnishing the reputations and careers of those he was in contact with.

UK premier Keir Starmer insisted he would not "walk away" on Monday after a prominent ally demanded the prime minister quit for embroiling the British government in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Three of the 10 employees of a Canadian mining company who were kidnapped two weeks ago in Mexico's violence-plagued Sinaloa state have been found dead, Mexico's Mining Chamber said Monday.

Meta and Google-owned YouTube were vilified Monday for "engineering addiction" as a landmark social media trial began in earnest in a California court.

The organisers of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics said on Monday they were investigating why medals are breaking after competitors, including gold medallist skier Breezy Johnson, said they were falling apart.

Venezuelan Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado said Monday that armed government agents had "kidnapped" a close ally — hours after he was released from prison and demanded democratic elections.

Japanese world champion Kokomo Murase clinched Olympic gold in the women's big air competition on Monday as two-time champion Anna Gasser was dethroned.

The Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics is in danger of developing into a Cold War between the athletes and US President Donald Trump with several competitors voicing criticism of his administration.