(BBC News) Ten people were killed and at least 35 injured after a man drove into large crowds in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the early hours of New Year's Day.
Here's what we know so far about what happened and the perpetrator.
At 03:15 local time on New Year's Day, a Ford pick-up truck rammed into crowds on Bourbon Street in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter.
CCTV footage shows a white Ford F-150 Lightning vehicle...
(BBC News) Russian gas supplies to EU states via Ukraine are to end on Wednesday, when a five-year deal between Ukraine's gas transit operator Naftogaz and Russia's Gazprom expires.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not allow Russia to "earn additional billions on our blood" and had given the EU a year to prepare.
The European Commission said the continent's gas system was "resilient and flexible" and that it had sufficient capacity to cope with...
(BBC News) A Chinese state-sponsored hacker has broken into the US Treasury Department's systems, accessing employee workstations and some unclassified documents, American officials said on Monday.
The breach occurred in early December and was made public in a letter penned by the Treasury Department to lawmakers notifying them of the incident.
The US agency characterized the breach as a "major incident", and said it had been working with the FBI and other agencies to investigate the...
(BBC News) When Vladimir Putin took over as acting president of Russia on the last day of the 20th Century, the former spy was an enigma to many. In History looks at how the surprise leader survived a tough childhood to rise to power in the Kremlin.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin made the shock announcement on December 31, 1999, that he was resigning, telling television viewers: "Russia must enter the new millennium with new politicians, new...
(BBC News) Holding new elections in Syria could take up to four years, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said in a broadcast interview.
This is the first time he has given a timeline for possible elections in Syria since his group Hayat Tahrr al-Sham (HTS) led a rebel offensive that ousted former President Bashar al-Assad.
In the interview with Saudi state broadcaster Al Arabiya on Sunday, he said drafting a new constitution could take up to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 179 people have been killed after a passenger plane skidded and crashed while trying to land at Muan International Airport in South Korea in one of the country’s worst aviation disasters.
The accident occurred on Sunday at 9:03am local time (00:03 GMT) as the Jeju Air flight, carrying 175 passengers and six crew from the Thai capital Bangkok, landed at Muan International Airport about 290km (180 miles) southwest of the capital...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev for what he called a “tragic incident” following the deadly crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane this week in Kazakhstan.
The plane was flying on Wednesday from Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku to Grozny, the regional capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya, when it turned toward Kazakhstan and crashed while attempting to land. Thirty-eight people were killed.
In a statement on Saturday, the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States space agency has confirmed its Parker Solar Probe is safe after making the closest approach to the Sun recorded by a human-made object.
The probe passed just 6.1 million kilometres above the Sun’s surface on December 24, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said early on Friday.
It flew into the Sun’s outer atmosphere — known as the corona — “at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster...
(BBC News) US President-elect Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to delay an upcoming TikTok ban while he works on a "political resolution".
HIs lawyer filed a legal brief on Friday with the court that says Trump "opposes banning TikTok" and "seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office."
On January 10, the court will hear arguments on a US law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner,...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Azerbaijan’s preliminary investigation into a deadly air crash in Kazakhstan has concluded that the airliner was downed by Russia’s air defence systems, multiple media outlets have reported.
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8432 crashed near the city of Aktau on Wednesday while en route to Grozny, the capital of the Chechnya region in southern Russia, killing 38 people and injuring 29 others.
While Azerbaijan has yet to publicly announce the findings of its probe...
