Fires were the leading cause of forest loss, accounting for 6.73 million hectares globally, and the Amazon rainforest was hit particularly hard, a report says.

A greatly weakened Hamas has sought to reassert itself in Gaza since a ceasefire took hold, killing at least 33 people in a crackdown on groups that have tested its grip.

A data breach that has already cost the boss of Qantas more than most people make in a year could hit the airline for billions of dollars.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held in Gaza for a third day ahead of the expected release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and an address by US President Donald Trump to Israel's parliament.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting dictatorship in the country.

Ian Watkins, the former frontman of Welsh rock band Lostprophets and jailed for child sex offences, has reportedly been killed by another inmate.

Canadian police and a Christchurch family have made a fresh appeal for information about an 11-year-old boy who has gone missing in British Columbia.

Mixed martial artists are paying tribute to a former UFC fighter shot dead in Sydney in what police are treating as a targeted attack.