Countless people have reported mysterious hovering objects dotting the night skies and posted blurred images on social media. Every day, for weeks.

New York could be about to wake up to its first White Christmas in more than a decade but the frosty weather and an airline software outage is causing travel chaos across the states.

An Azerbaijani airliner crashed near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.

Cassius filed its claim two years after an investigation revealed a Chinese mining company had plundered tens of millions of dollars in gold from its veins.

The SpaceX owner is trying to do something that few, if any, titans of industry have done in a century.

For Elizabeth Leonard, time spent together as a family marked the beginning of a long road to accepting that there might be something wrong.

Some 32 million tourists are expected to walk through the “Holy Door” just opened by Francis at St Peter’s. He’s asked all to have courage to better the world.

The recovery in September of the bodies of six Israeli hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, triggered deep shock in Israel.

A plane, a helicopter and a throng of police officers with assault rifles heralded the return of the suspected killer to New York.

The driver was arrested shortly after he had barrelled into a crowd in Magdeburg, Germany, when the town centre was teeming with holiday shoppers.

The X owner, an unelected figure, not only used his outsize influence on the platform to help sway the US Congress, he did so without regard for the facts.

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The unelected tech billionaire’s role in scrapping a spending deal in Congress alarmed Democrats and watchdog groups, and could result in a government shutdown.

Cast off by the Nazis but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor – made just before van Gogh’s suicide – has not been seen in 34 years.

Malaysia has agreed to reopen the search for the wreckage more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries.