- yesterday
Admiral Cooper praises USS Lincoln crew amid reports of record deployment and mental health concerns
Admiral Brad Cooper visited the USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday, praising the crew's resilience after reports of mental health crises and supply shortages during a record-setting deployment of more than 240 days at sea without a port call.
- 2d ago
Tropical Storm Lala damages over 100 homes in Hawaii, 180,000 without power
Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm after passing close to Big Island, leaving more than 100 homes damaged and over 180,000 households without power across Hawaii as flash floods swept roads and cut off communities.
- 3d ago
Flores earthquake leaves 68 dead and 12,800 displaced across eastern Indonesia
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Flores Island in Indonesia killed at least 68 people, injured 213, and forced 12,800 residents into temporary camps as aftershocks continue.
- 4d ago
Germany commemorates 65th anniversary of Berlin Wall construction as Klöckner warns of persistent divisions
German leaders commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's construction at a ceremony on Bernauer Straße, with Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner warning that the Wall still persists in people's minds and Kulturstaatsminister Wolfram Weimer cautioning against trivializing the DDR dictatorship.
- 5d ago
Prosecutors investigate parents of drowned three-year-old Bella in Preetz
German prosecutors have opened a negligent homicide investigation against the parents of three-year-old Bella, who was found dead in a garden pool in Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein, after being reported missing last week.
- 6d ago
Five years of Taliban rule: women confined, humanitarian crisis deepens in Afghanistan
On the fifth anniversary of Kabul's fall, the Taliban celebrate in the capital while UN Women reports 52% of Afghan women leave home only twice a month or less and 47% of children are undernourished.
- Aug 7
Former Thai MP kills official in Nonthaburi days after school shooting left nine dead
A 71-year-old former Thai lawmaker shot dead a senior provincial official in Nonthaburi on Monday over a financial dispute, just three days after a 14-year-old student killed his grandparents and six people at a school in the same province before taking his own life.
- Aug 2
US lawmaker Marcy Kaptur hospitalised after hit-and-run crash in Toledo, Ohio
The 80-year-old congresswoman was a passenger in a vehicle struck at a Toledo intersection on Sunday morning. Police are investigating the incident as a hit-and-run.
- Aug 1
Trump's Reflecting Pool case implodes: charges dropped, Oval Office confrontation follows
The felony case against an Olympic canoeist collapsed after prosecutors admitted the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was damaged by a botched contractor installation, not vandals. President Trump turned on his own hand-picked U.S. attorney, Jeanine Pirro, triggering a tense Oval Office confrontation.
- Jul 31
Ariana Grande's 'Petal' album channels unfiltered rage into dark, experimental pop
The singer's eighth studio album, co-written with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh, trades effervescence for brooding electronics and lyrics that take aim at fame, media scrutiny, and false friends.
- Jul 27
Merz reshuffles CDU and cabinet: Franziska Hoppermann to become party general secretary, Linnemann moves to health ministry
Chancellor Friedrich Merz proposed the current party treasurer to the CDU presidium on Monday, part of a wider personnel package triggered by Jens Spahn's resignation as parliamentary group leader.
- Jul 22
Azerbaijan's president confirms secret German-Russian talks in Baku, says territory used without consent
Ilham Aliyev said flight records show former German and Russian officials met in Baku on 12–14 July, but neither Berlin nor Moscow informed his government.
- Jul 20
JD Vance and wife Usha welcome fourth child, first baby born to a sitting US vice president in 156 years
US Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance announced the birth of their son Alec Neel Vance on Sunday at Walter Reed Medical Center, the first child born to a sitting vice president in over 150 years.
- Jul 18
Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara arrives in Miami exile after five-year prison term
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, co-founder of the San Isidro Movement, landed in Miami on Saturday after accepting exile as the condition for his release from a five-year sentence for protesting Cuba's government.
- Jul 18
AfD launches Saxony-Anhalt election campaign with CDU donation claim and Wendler video message
At a rally in Magdeburg, AfD lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund said a CDU district councillor donated €5,000 to his party, while Schlager singer Michael Wendler sent greetings from Florida.
- Jul 17
Dresden court gives NSU supporter Susann E. a two-year suspended sentence for aiding neo-Nazi terror cell
A Dresden court gave a suspended two-year sentence to Susann E., a close friend of NSU terrorist Beate Zschäpe, for lending her identity and helping rent the motorhome used in the group's final robbery.
- Jul 17
Armin Laschet attends reading of '00-Laschet' spy comedy and reads a chapter himself
Former chancellor candidate Armin Laschet attended a reading of David Safier's new crime comedy '00-Laschet' in Aachen, where he is portrayed as a bumbling spy. Laschet even took the stage to read a chapter himself.
- Jul 16
German conservatives to elect Spahn's successor on 29 July after surrogacy resignation
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group will convene a special session on 29 July at 14:00 in Berlin to elect a new chair, after Jens Spahn resigned on Saturday under pressure from Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his own party over his use of a surrogate mother in the United States.
- Jul 15
German prosecutors probe comedian Uwe Steimle over Merkel hanging, Stauffenberg remarks at AfD event
The Dessau-Roßlau public prosecutor's office opened an investigation against cabaret artist Uwe Steimle on Wednesday after he joked at an AfD event about hanging a portrait of former Chancellor Angela Merkel and invoked the July 20 plotter Claus von Stauffenberg in reference to Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
- Jul 15
AfD leaders sing East German anthem at rally as comedian sparks criminal probe with Merz, Merkel remarks
AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla and top candidate Ulrich Siegmund joined hundreds in singing 'Auferstanden aus Ruinen' at a campaign event in Dessau-Roßlau, while cabaret artist Uwe Steimle faces a criminal investigation over comments about Friedrich Merz and Angela Merkel.
