Sir Keir Starmer will host a virtual meeting of world leaders to discuss peacekeeping in Ukraine, and he will use the call to say that now is the time for "concrete commitments", Downing Street has said.

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Mark Carney has been formally sworn in as the new prime minister of Canada, following the resignation of predecessor Justin Trudeau.

Police in Japan have arrested a man after a YouTuber was stabbed to death while livestreaming in downtown Tokyo.

Hamas says it has offered to release Edan Alexander, an Israeli soldier who holds American citizenship, and the bodies of four other dual nationals.

Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, has appeared at the International Criminal Court, accused of crimes against humanity.

Steve Witkoff didn't stay long in the Russian capital.

A British man in his 70s has died after being hit by a vehicle in Kenyan President William Ruto's motorcade.

Tesla, run by Donald Trump cheerleader Elon Musk, has warned US officials it risks being exposed to "disproportionate" retaliatory tariffs under the president's escalating trade war.

An American influencer who caused outrage by snatching a baby wombat from its mother has left Australia - amid concerns the "disorientated" marsupial may not have refound its parent.

One thousand feet above the world's largest iceberg, it's hard to believe what you're seeing.

Four weeks after the Pope went into hospital there's a growing sense that the papacy may have entered a new phase.

Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year compared to 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF have warned in what is being called a "wake-up call".

Queen Camilla wrote a letter of support to French rape survivor Gisele Pelicot, a royal aide has revealed.

Donald Trump has said he thinks the US will annex Greenland, days after the country's incoming prime minister said: "We don't want to be Americans."

Vladimir Putin has said Russia agrees to an end to fighting in Ukraine, but "lots of questions" remain over proposals for a 30-day ceasefire.

Technically, the hundred-mile-long, 20 mile-wide British overseas territory of South Georgia is uninhabited.

Australia's prime minister has become the latest to criticise an American influencer whose video of her grabbing a baby wombat and carrying it away from its distressed mother has sparked outrage.

People living in Naples were shaken awake early on Thursday morning after a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the southern Italian city - its strongest in 40 years.

Israel has been accused of carrying out "genocidal acts" against Palestinians during the Gaza conflict in a United Nations report.