An Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed, killing 38 people, was damaged while flying over Russia "due to shooting from the ground", the country's president has said.

A 40-year-old man has died after a shark attack in Australia on Saturday evening.

At least three people have died off the coast of Calais attempting to cross to England.

This is South Korea's worst domestic civil aviation disaster.

There is a "real prospect" an unconventional attack by Russia against NATO - such as an act of sabotage or arson - will cause "substantial" casualties, a top alliance official has told Sky News.

A passenger jet carrying 181 people has crashed in South Korea, killing at least 151 people.

The US attorney general tried to block Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams from fundraising in the country in 1995 over a belief the IRA was still trying to source weapons, newly released records show.

The UK has rejected Vladimir Putin's apology over the deadly Azerbaijan Airlines crash and called for an independent investigation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will go into hospital to have his prostate removed, his office has said.

The director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza was arrested in a raid the Israeli military said was targeting a Hamas command centre.

Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has been cremated after a state funeral as politicians and the public mourned his death.

Elon Musk has backed Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) in a guest opinion piece the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

World chess number one Magnus Carlsen has quit a major tournament after being told he couldn't wear jeans.

A species of tiny snail has been brought back from the brink of extinction.

An annual anti-Christmas protest held by Japan's Revolutionary Alliance of Unpopular Men failed to materialise this year as the group didn't put in their paperwork. 

Champion boxer Paul Bamba has died at the age of 35. 

NATO has said it will enhance its military presence in the Baltic Sea after undersea power and internet cables were cut between Estonia and Finland.

A record-breaking number of people voted across the globe in 2024 with consequences not just for their own countries, but for the rest of the world too.

In Russia, size matters when it comes to family.

Weavers of Ireland's famous Donegal tweed have called for a special protected status for their product, as the craft industry battles a raft of cheaper imitations branding themselves as "Donegals".