Early in the morning on June 18, a message from an unknown account slipped into the TikTok inbox of a flight attendant in ‌Bangkok with a series of questions: “Are you flying to Australia? Do you do carry-for-hire? What is your rate?”

Palestinian Mohammad Salameh was building a home for his family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where his recently ​engaged son was meant to start married life. Instead, before construction was complete, a group of Israeli settlers seized ‌the property.

Pope Leo praised the United States’ history of welcoming immigrants in his first major address to ‌his home country on Friday, urging in a video appearance that Americans live up to the ideals in the Declaration of Independence.

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.