Tropical Depression 09F has now intensified into Tropical Cyclone Urmil, becoming the first named system of the 2025–2026 Tropical Cyclone Season.

Prince Andrew, Duke of York, has been arrested and is in police custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

U.S. President Donald Trump says the world will know within the next “probably ten days” whether the United States can reach a deal with Iran or will take military action, speaking at the first meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to travel to Israel on February 28 to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and update him on Iran talks, a State Department official told CNN Wednesday.

Rescue teams combing through the backcountry of California’s Lake Tahoe region say they have found the bodies of eight skiers who went missing in an avalanche on Tuesday.

The chair of the Pacific Academy of Sciences says it is time Pasifika experts take the lead on climate change, health, renewable energy and traditional knowledge in the region.

Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, according to a panel of independent experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson died aged 84 on Tuesday morning surrounded by relatives, according to a statement released by his family.

The suspect in a deadly school shooting in western Canada was an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues who killed her mother and stepbrother before attacking her former school, police said on Wednesday, but investigators did not offer a motive for one of the worst mass slaughters in Canadian history.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from the US House Oversight Committee on Monday.

The lead singer and songwriter of US band 3 Doors Down, Brad Arnold, has died after a battle with cancer aged 47, the rock band announced on X.

Twelve people have been killed by a Russian drone strike near a company shuttle bus in eastern Ukraine, a regional official has said.