A US jury has awarded $42m (£33m) to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based defence contractor responsible for contributing to their abuse two decades…

@Tsihanouskaya “I cannot believe it!” wrote Maria Kolesnikova’s sister on X After more than 600 days of denied visits, calls and correspondence, the jailed Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova has…

Jack Teixeira, a US Air National Guardsman, who leaked Pentagon documents last year in one of the highest-profile intelligence cases in recent years, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.…

Watch: BBC China correspondent ordered to stop filming and pushed at car attack scene The gates outside the Zhuhai sports complex in China were closed. Inside, the stadium was in…

Fixing LED strip lights to the bottom of surfboards could deter attacks by great white sharks, Australian scientists say. A study conducted in Mossel Bay, South Africa involved towing seal-shaped…

At least 35 people have been killed in a car attack in southern China, believed to be the deadliest known act of public violence in the country in decades. Police…

Ahead of the verdict, Nadezhda Buyanova was led, handcuffed, into the courtroom and locked inside a glass and metal cage. Through the glass, the 68-year-old paediatrician told me what she…

Reuters Azerbaijan’s president said countries should not be blamed for having oil, gas and other natural resources or bringing them to the market. The president of COP29’s host country told…

Former US congressman Michael Grimm has been paralysed from the chest down after being thrown from a horse during a polo tournament. His friend and former New York City council…

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Valencia is still recovering from the first “Dana” weather system at the end of October Two weeks after flash floods caused devastation in eastern Spain, several areas of the…