Lava, letters and a loch: Photos of the week
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week. ANTON BRINK/EPA-EFE Lava flows across one of the roads near Grindavik on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. The Icelandic…
Free shots and beer buckets in party town
Social Media/Handout Holly Bowles, left, was confirmed to have died on Friday, a day after British lawyer Simone White and Australian Bianca Jones For Australian friends Bianca Jones and Holly…
Trump nominates Scott Bessent to lead US Treasury
Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent to lead the US Treasury Department, a post with wide oversight of tax policy, public debt, international finance and sanctions. The selection ends what…
Putin says Russia will use new missile again in ‘combat conditions’
Russia has a stock of powerful new missiles “ready to be used”, President Vladimir Putin has said, a day after his country fired a new ballistic missile at the Ukrainian…
Dutch police find 2kg gnome made of MDMA during drug bust
Officers in the southern Netherlands have found a garden gnome weighing nearly 2kg (4lb) and made of the drug MDMA. “Drugs appear in many shapes and sizes, but every now…
COP29 overruns as poor countries seethe over climate cash
UN climate talks looked set to overrun into the weekend as a deep gulf formed between richer and poorer countries over cash to help those most vulnerable in a warming…
Conor McGregor sexually assaulted woman, jury finds
A civil jury has found that the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor assaulted a woman who had accused him of raping her. He has been ordered to pay the…
US Capitol Christmas tree arrives in Washington DC
An 80-foot Sitka spruce has arrived in the US capital city of Washington DC. Also known as the People’s tree, the spruce travelled 700 miles by sea and nearly 4,000…
BBC visits mpox clinic as WHO says cases ‘plateauing’
BBC Nurse Jackson Murhula says Lwiro clinic is only receiving two or three mpox cases a day at the moment Medics at the epicentre of the mpox outbreak in eastern…
Cop29: US out, China in
BBC The WhatsApp message was from the chief negotiator of one of the most powerful countries at the COP climate gathering. Could I stop by for a chat, he asked.…