An art expert who appeared on the BBC’s Bargain Hunt show has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for failing to report his sale of pricey works to a suspected financier of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.

Artificial Intelligence’s use in filmmaking is growing.

The Trump administration says migrants placed on a deportation flight originally bound for South Sudan are now being held in a converted shipping container on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, where the men and their guards are contending with baking hot temperatures, smoke from nearby burn pits and the looming threat of rocket attacks.

More than 1.6 million Muslims are completing a core element of the Hajj, the symbolic stoning of the devil.

The Pentagon watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staffers were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter.

David Beckham, the former England soccer captain who has been an ambassador for the U.N. children’s fund, is to receive a knighthood in next week’s honors list from King Charles III, according to U.K. media reports.

Representation of many of the world’s faiths and spiritual traditions has been minimal to nonexistent in the mainstream comics universe.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced the closure of its offices in Niger and the departure of its foreign staff, four months after the ruling junta ordered the organization to leave the country.

Representation of many of the world's faiths and spiritual traditions has been minimal to nonexistent in the mainstream comics universe.

Many LGBTQ+ travelers have expressed concerns about or decided to skip the World Pride gathering going on in Washington due to anxieties about safety, border policies and a hostile political climate.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he found President Donald Trump open to discussion and is convinced that Washington remains committed to the NATO alliance.

People across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip have marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays with prayers outside destroyed mosques and homes, with little hope the war with Israel will end soon.

The Lebanese army has condemned Israel’s airstrikes on suburbs of Beirut, warning that such attacks are weakening the role of Lebanon’s armed forces that might eventually suspend cooperation with the committee monitoring the truce that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war.

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated one of the most ambitious and strategic railway projects the nation has ever built.

Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been charged with conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that critics say has crushed Hong Kong's once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

There is an unmistakable air of Peckham these days in Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, as the legendary yellow three-wheeler from BBC’s long-running sitcom "Only Fools and Horses" cruises the city streets.

Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha was celebrated in many parts of the world.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard University.

Veterans have gathered on the beaches of Normandy to mark the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings — a pivotal moment during World War II that eventually led to the collapse of Adolf Hitler’s regime.

Stocks rose on Wall Street following a better-than-expected report on the U.S. job market.

Russia struck Ukraine with a thunderous aerial bombardment overnight, further dampening hopes that the warring sides could reach a peace deal anytime soon.

North Korea says it righted a capsized destroyer and moored it at a pier in the northeastern port of Chongjin as it continues to repair a new warship leader Kim Jong Un has described as a significant asset for his nuclear-armed military.

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco has appeared in court in the Dominican Republic in a sexual abuse case involving a 14-year-old girl who testified behind closed doors.

The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza.

Colombia’s deforestation dropped 33% in early 2025 compared to last year, with significant reductions in Amazon national parks.

The Israeli military has struck several sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs that it said held underground facilities used by Hezbollah for drone production.

Olympic champion Imane Khelif is skipping the Eindhoven Box Cup in the Netherlands less than a week after World Boxing announced mandatory sex testing for all athletes.

Western nations are planning to table a resolution at an IAEA meeting that will find Iran in non-compliance with its so-called safeguards obligations for the first time in 20 years, a senior western diplomat said.

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.

Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has “activated” some clans of Palestinians in Gaza that are opposed to Hamas, though it was not immediately clear what role they would play.

A three-judge appeals panel rejected Apple’s request to pause an April 30 order banning the company from charging a fee on in-app iPhone transactions processed outside its once-exclusive payment system in a two-page decision issued late Thursday.

President Donald Trump is tapping an Air Force fighter pilot with extensive experience as a commander in the Middle East to be the next head of U.S. European Command.

The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger.

The Nintendo Switch 2 finally hit store shelves on Thursday, eight years after the initial release of Japanese video-game maker Nintendo’s popular video-game console.

U.S. President Donald Trump often says the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are among the events he is most excited about in his second term.

Officials in some of the 12 countries whose citizens will be soon banned from visiting the United States denounced President Donald Trump’s move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term and vowed to push back against the U.S. The ban was announced Wednesday and takes effect Monday.

President Donald Trump says his first conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping since returning to the White House had a “very positive conclusion," announcing the two countries will hold trade talks in hopes of breaking an impasse over tariffs and global supplies of rare earth minerals.

Many of the victims of the devastating flood that struck central Nigeria on May 29 are Almajiri pupils, the boys sent to learn the Quran and made to live with their teachers under tough conditions.

President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

President Donald Trump has banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States and restricted access for people from seven others.

The Trump administration’s travel ban on people from Afghanistan is sending ripples of concern across the Afghan community and their supporters.

Pope Leo XIV has met with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission for the first time amid questions about his past handling of abuse and demands from survivors that he enact a true zero tolerance for abuse policy across the Catholic Church.

Ukraine said its “Operation Spiderweb” attacked Russian warplanes worth hundreds of millions of dollars, utilizing drones that each cost under $1,000 and were launched from wooden containers carried on trucks.

Indonesian authorities on the tourist island of Bali have announced the arrests of several foreign nationals, including an Australian, an Indian, and an American, on suspicion of possessing narcotics, charges that could carry the death penalty.

At least 11 people were killed and more than 30 injured in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in southern India's Bengaluru city on Wednesday.

Turkish authorities say they have suspended five elected mayors from duty, as the country’s opposition faces an ongoing crackdown.

The European Central Bank is cutting its benchmark interest rate for an eighth time, aiming to support businesses and consumers with more affordable borrowing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war threatens to slow already tepid growth.

Europe’s top official monitoring illegal drugs is nearing the end of his decade-long tenure with one clear message: the non-stop rise in cocaine and other stimulants is producing more violence than ever before in the heart of the world’s safest society.

Eager customers have lined up outside electronics stores hours in advance in Tokyo to collect Nintendo’s much-anticipated Switch 2 video game consoles.

India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says that most allies endorse President Donald Trump’s demand that they invest 5% of gross domestic product on their security needs.

Israel has recovered the bodies of two Israeli-American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack that ignited the war in Gaza.

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has voted overwhelmingly to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and criminal allegations against his wife.

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Ukrainian officials say at least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed in a Russian drone strike on a northern Ukrainian overnight.

China has issued warrants Thursday for 20 Taiwanese people it said carried out hacking missions in the Chinese mainland on behalf of Taiwan’s ruling party, while separately banning dealings with a Taiwanese company whose owners mainland authorities called “hardcore Taiwan independence supporters.”.

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of government.

President Donald Trump says it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

U.S. stocks drifted lower as financial markets locked in their final moves before a highly anticipated update coming Friday about the U.S. job market.

President Donald Trump cited a range of reasons for placing 19 countries under new travel bans or restrictions in the U.S. They include allegations of lax screening of travelers, “a significant terrorist presence” in its territory, a government that wasn’t cooperative enough in accepting deported citizens or residents who were prone to overstaying their visas in the United States.

President Donald Trump is again banning people from countries his administration deems dangerous from coming to America.

Google has signed an agreement with Chile to build an undersea fiber optic cable connecting South America with Asia and Oceania.

Former astronaut and Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau has died.

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.

The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza because it’s not linked to the release of hostages.

The new Syrian government has agreed to give inspectors from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog access to suspected former nuclear sites immediately.

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that has for decades given college students without legal residency in the U.S. access to reduced in-state tuition, swiftly ruling in favor of the latest effort by the Trump administration to crack down on immigration into the country.

Israel says it signed defense contracts worth nearly $15 billion last year, surpassing its all-time record.

The number of newborns in Japan fell below 700,000 for the first time since records began in 1899.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is beginning to worsen air quality in the eastern U.S. as several Midwestern states battle conditions deemed unhealthy by the federal government.

The English pop singer Jessie J says she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer.

Sudan’s former prime minister has told The Associated Press that the military's recent victories will not end the country's two-year civil war.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader told him “very strongly” that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press show seven destroyed bombers on the tarmac at a Russian air base in eastern Siberia.

Four former senior fire service and civil protection officials have been jailed in Greece after being found guilty for failing to mount a proper evacuation during a wildfire that killed more than 100 people outside Athens in 2018.

At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 injured in a stampede outside a cricket stadium in southern India.

Bulgaria has the green light to join the euro next year and become the 21st member of the European Union's currency union.

President Donald Trump is resurrecting the travel ban policy from his first term.

An Israeli- and U.S.-backed group has temporarily paused food delivery at its three distribution sites in Gaza.

Coco Gauff overcame 10 double-faults and the first set she’s dropped in the tournament to beat Madison Keys 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1 at the French Open and reach the semifinals for the third time.

A deal to build at least two nuclear reactors in Czechia has been unblocked after an appeals court dismissed a lower court ruling that blocked the government from signing a deal with South Korea’s KHNP power utility.

Dutch opposition parties are calling for fresh elections as soon as possible, a day after anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders sparked the collapse of the country’s four-party coalition government.

An Australian woman on trial for the triple murder of her estranged husband's relatives and the attempted murder of another has told the Supreme Court in the state of Victoria that she carefully planned the July 2023 lunch where her dinner guests were poisoned with death cap mushrooms.

Europe and the United States say progress has been made but there were no breakthroughs during a meeting in Paris to negotiate a settlement of a tense tariff spat with global economic ramifications.

Vietnam has scrapped its long-standing two-child policy as birth rates fall and its population ages.

The 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China passed like any other weekday for most Chinese.

Ukraine's Western backers are gathering to drum up more weapons and ammunition for the country's efforts to repel Russia's all-out war.

New South Korean President Lee Jae-myung described his victory as the start of the country’s return to normalcy, after winning a tense election that capped off months of political turmoil.

Images from the election of South Korea's new president are as peaceful and orderly as you’d expect to see in any vibrant democracy.

Iran’s supreme leader has criticized an initial proposal from the United States in negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Shootings have erupted nearly daily since last week in the Gaza Strip in the vicinity of new hubs where desperate Palestinians are being directed to collect food.

For countless families in Cuba, the question is no longer if the power will go out, but when.

Muslims from around the world are in the Saudi city of Mecca for this year's Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.

On the rural islands of Nagasaki a handful of believers practice a version of Christianity that has direct links to a time of samurai, shoguns and martyred missionaries and believers.

Wall Street’s big recent rally lost some momentum following a pair of potentially discouraging reports on the economy.

South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung says he’ll pursue dialogue with North Korea while bolstering a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan.

The U_N_ Security Council has scheduled a vote Wednesday on a resolution which demands “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza respected by all parties.”.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies.