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Two Republicans joined Democrats to vote for the war powers resolution, but the motion failed in a 215-215 vote.

The search continues for missing people after a landslide hit a popular campsite in Mount Maunganui.

Hill 350, a strategic high point on the Thailand-Cambodia border, was fiercely contested in fighting last year.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will announce plans for police reform next week.

US did not pay $278 million in 2024–2025 dues and millions more in promised funds.

Apple, OpenAI, Meta, and more are all racing toward AI hardware products.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Davos, urged Europe to show more courage and unity.

The US president has promised to "end decades of suffering" but critics dismiss his Board of Peace as a vainglorious project.

In what world does Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake get canceled amid corporate restructuring and yet BG&E2 does not? "Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a priority for us in the context of our strategy centered around Open World Adventures," an unnamed Ubisoft spokesperson told Kotaku and Insider Gaming. The original Beyond […]

While the world waited Wednesday on what Donald Trump would utter on Greenland, what if we missed the bigger picture? That for 73 minutes, the US president before an audience of traditional transatlantic allies in Davos, hurled invectives and insults while doubling down on what’s now official US policy, the assessment that Europe’s a continent in civilizational decline, implied in that, overrun by non-Christians and non-whites. How do Europeans respond? Even far-right aficionados of MAGA have a hard time with the Greenland grab. Trump's imminent threat has passed for now, but can European leaders establish a common framework for what lies ahead? How do what the Canadian prime minister called “middle powers” coalesce? And if the time for flattery and calling Trump daddy truly has passed, then what’s the next step for Europe, for NATO, for nations the world over that still believe in the rules-based order of old?

The lawsuit escalates a series of confrontations between the president and the leader of the country's biggest bank.

The US president said allied troops had "stayed a little back" during the war in Afghanistan.

Company is pulling out all the stops to protect itself in advance of New Mexico trial.

Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. With approval from both the US and China closing on the schedule laid out in December, ByteDance's ownership of the new joint venture is now only 19.9 percent […]

After the damage done by the American president in Davos - and make no mistake, it was significant, with alliances further ruptured - he has now managed to amplify it with comments that are as disrespectful as they are false.

"Talking tigers, spaceships, and magic swords that can make a man as mighty as a god."

Volodymyr Zelenskyy dropped a barrage of truth bombs on his European allies about their collective failure to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and be respected by his US counterpart, Donald Trump.

Crypto theft was "the worst thing I had ever done."

The US and China have signed off on a deal for TikTok's Chinese owner to hand over the company's American division to investors backed by Donald Trump.

The number of people killed in protests against the Iranian regime has been rising since demonstrations began in late December. An NGO reported on January 20 that more than 4,500 people had been killed. However, it added that the figure was provisional because a nationwide internet blackout meant that the death toll had been hard to establish. The real number is thought to be much higher. 

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he was scrapping his planned tariffs on eight European nations in an effort to force U.S. control over Greenland, pulling a dramatic reversal shortly after insisting he wanted to get the island “including right, title and ownership.”

More developments in Davos and the PM's allies moving to stop a potential leadership bid feature on Friday's front pages.

Vimeo is laying off employees around the globe just months after the Italian software company Bending Spoons acquired the platform for $1.38 billion, as reported earlier by Business Insider. Even though it's not clear how many people were laid off, Dave Brown, Vimeo's former brand VP, says in a post on LinkedIn that "a large […]

Lindo and his Sinners co-star Wunmi Mosaku are the only two UK actors nominated for an Oscar this year.

In tonight's edition, an unspoken crisis emerges in Sudan, as the country faces one of the world's longest school closures. Also, South Africa’s iconic Kruger National Park reels from devastating floods, with damage of over $30 million, and 15 camps shut. And IShowSpeed celebrated his 21st birthday while hitting 50 million subscribers, exploring markets, tasting jollof, and visiting art galleries in Nigeria.