Emergency services had "literally found the needle in the haystack", authorities said.

Boris Johnson says he had an "extraordinary" call with President Putin before the Ukraine invasion.

China's smartphone sales endured a record fall in 2022, tumbling 13% to their lowest level in a decade as COVID controls and a slowing economy sapped consumer appetite, data from third-party research firms showed.

Olympics chiefs say Russian and Belarusian athletes could compete as neutrals, but Ukraine opposes the move.

A pop-up urinal crushed a man to death in London’s theater district Friday, police said.

A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to cultivate clientele and bolster sales: whale meat vending machines. The Kujira (Whale) Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened in the port town of Yokohama near Tokyo, houses three machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat....

Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have been stranded at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport for months after authorities refused to accept them. Three of the men had arrived in October, with the remaining two in November, said their lawyer Lee Jong-chan.

An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people. A report published Friday by a team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons offered the latest confirmation that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons during his country’s grinding civil war.

Google says it shut down more than 50,000 accounts promoting pro-People’s Republic of China (PRC) disinformation in 2022 that focused on Taiwan, COVID-19 and U.S. politics. The takedowns are the latest salvo in an ongoing battle between Google and a campaign it has named “Dragonbridge.”

Back in the early 19th century, a skilled soldier could fire a flintlock musket 2-3 times a minute if subjects rebelled against the king and, at best, hit the mark at a distance of 75 metres. During the Arab Spring, the Syrian regime used combat helicopters against protestors, and tanks rolled through the streets of Cairo.

Egyptians are used to paying for costly items such as cars or washing machines in instalments, but rocketing inflation means they can now buy books this way. "A book has become a luxury item here in Egypt. It's not a basic commodity like food and people are saving on luxuries," says Mohammed El-Baaly of Sefsafa Publishing House.

California-based Harmony said in June it had been the target of a cyberattack that stole $100m worth of digital assets.

The Turkish president's warning comes after protests in Sweden, including a Quran burning.

The announcement that zero rhinos have been poached in 2022 in the Indian state of Assam has been heralded as a global conservation success. IFAW and Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) congratulate the Assam government and local communities on this momentous achievement, which marks the first time there have been zero poaching incidents in the region in 45 years.

A French newspaper reports that doctors amputated the testicle of a young man who got clubbed in the groin by a police officer during a huge Paris demonstration

Dubbed the "Waziri papyrus," scholars are currently translating the text into Arabic.

Workers in Kenya and Nepal listened to police radio in American cities to fill Citizen with content. They were recently fired without severance.

At least 1,733 environmental activists and land defenders have been killed for their work over the past decade, according to a new report from the nonprofit Global Witness. That means that a person defending the environment is killed every other day, a harrowing statistic especially in the context of the worsening climate and biodiversity crisis.

YouTube had no problem passing the same test.

Facebook approved a series of online ads promoting violence in Brazil, days after protesters ransacked government buildings, according to a new report.