Researchers have unlocked a breakthrough that could transform motor neurone disease from an acute terminal illness into a manageable chronic condition.

A teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a community medical centre.

The prime minister has fended off criticism that his proposed online gambling laws are undercooked, saying the reforms exceed recommendations made in a report that called for a total ban on advertising.

A treatment trial for the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has enrolled its first patient, marking a milestone in efforts to combat the epidemic.

A former ​U.S. Olympic canoeist has been indicted on a charge of felony destruction of property for allegedly vandalizing the ‌newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, court records showed on Thursday.

Iran’s ruling clerics are preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic and proof that its revolutionary fervor still burns strong.

Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, killing at least 25 people, wounding scores more and damaging around 130 buildings in the ​deadliest attack on the capital this year.

In Russia’s grain belt, farmers fret they will not be able to harvest their crops as a fuel crisis sparked ​by Ukraine’s drone attacks on oil refineries and depots disrupts daily life.

Argentina faces a foreign-currency debt test in 2027, the year President Javier Milei is expected to seek re-election, but investors are increasingly confident he can find a way through as fiscal discipline and ​economic stability improve.

The June heatwave that broke a series of temperature records in Europe has focused minds on the urgency of adapting to global warming in a continent once complacent about its relatively gentle climate and its ambitious goals on reducing emissions.

The government of India’s national capital territory of Delhi has announced a spate ​of measures to curb air pollution during winter, ‌months ahead of the annual season when the city often becomes the world’s most polluted.

The command center hums with activity as radios crackle to life, medical staff stop in to say hello and supplies are arranged in orderly piles.