A senior Hamas official has said that he expects Israel and Gaza militants to reach a ceasefire "within a day or two" as cross-border attacks continue. But Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he was "determined to carry on" until "calm a...
US President Joe Biden has told Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu he expects a "significant de-escalation" in the Gaza conflict on Wednesday. Mr Biden wanted a "path to ceasefire", the White House said. The US is a staunch ally of Israel and has so fa...
Marilyn Manson's former assistant Ashley Walters is suing the singer, alleging sexual assault, battery and harassment, US court documents show. Ms Walters' legal team filed a complaint to the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on Tuesday. It clai...
China has released the first pictures taken by its Zhurong rover on Mars. The forward view shows the landscape ahead of the robot as it sits on its landing platform; the rear-looking image reveals Zhurong's solar panels. The rover touched down on t...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu has just briefed foreign journalists on the efforts to end the fighting. “We’re not standing with a stopwatch," he said. "We are taking care of the operation’s objectives.” He said earlier that Israel was f...
The head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK has said the latest outbreak of fighting is part of a much bigger historical picture. "This isn’t a confrontation between Netanyahu and Hamas, this as a confrontation that has lasted for 100 years, betwe...
Google has unveiled a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions, based on images uploaded by patients. A trial of the "dermatology assist tool", unveiled at the tech giant's annual developer conference, Googl...
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for a diplomatic boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing due to concerns over human rights abuses. While athletes would still participate, Ms Pelosi said heads of state should not attend. Ms Pelos...
Israel's nine-day bombardment of Gaza has "set Hamas back by many years", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said. Israel and Palestinian militant groups in Gaza again exchanged fire overnight into the early hours of Wednesday. Diplomati...
The New York attorney general's office says it is investigating the Trump Organization "in a criminal capacity". A spokesman for the state's top prosecutor, Letitia James, said the inquiry into Mr Trump's property company was "no longer purely civil...
