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Fireworks, drums and light shows: How the world is welcoming 2026

Finnish police seize ship suspected of sabotaging undersea cable

Passenger describes 'chaos' after head-on Machu Picchu train collision

In pictures: New Year welcomed around the world

Watch: Stunning celestial events that lit up the skies in 2025

Queen Camilla says she was assaulted on a train as a teenager

EU's top diplomat rejects Russian claims of Ukrainian attack on government sites

Israel says it will bar dozens of aid groups from operating in Gaza

In Russia, plans to cut mobile internet on New Year’s Eve draw fury

Thieves tunnel into bank vault, steal millions from safe-deposit boxes

Sydney sends message of peace for New Year's after Bondi attack

Iranian protests sparked by economic woes quickly spread across country

Berlin’s wild New Year’s Eve fuels constant debate over banning fireworks

A tiny U.S. territory in the Pacific doubles down on a giant Chinese casino

Heated Rivalry author says TV success led to help with her Parkinson's

Mali and Burkina Faso impose travel ban on US citizens in tit-for-tat move

Huge crowds mourn Bangladesh's first female PM at state funeral

Jailed HK tycoon's 'teeth rotting and fingernails falling off', daughter tells BBC

Diane Keaton, Pope Francis and Ozzy Osbourne... famous faces who left us in 2025

Thailand releases 18 Cambodian soldiers held since July

The year of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’

Eurostar services return to normal after major Channel Tunnel disruption

Ex-Australia batter Martyn in coma with meningitis

Isiah Whitlock Jr: The Wire and Veep actor dies at 71

Watch: Underwater chess champions compete for world title

Machu Picchu train crash leaves one dead and dozens injured

Saving South Africa's threatened albatross from lethal fishing lines

The viral moments that grabbed India's attention this year

3 stories our photographers witnessed in 2025

Israel to bar 37 aid groups as UK and EU warn of severe impact in Gaza

U.S. operations in Syria against Islamic State kill seven, capture fighters

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of John F Kennedy, dies aged 35

Trump sends ‘wartime prime minister’ Netanyahu back to Israel with a boost

The 'thorny' issues that threaten to derail a Russia-Ukraine peace deal

Thieves use drill to steal €30m in German bank heist

Protests spread across Iran for third day after currency hits record low

Tensions between Saudi Arabia and UAE spike with bombing of port

Guinea junta chief wins presidential election by landslide

UAE says it will withdraw from Yemen after Saudi strike on separatist-held port

Passengers stuck on Eurostar trains overnight as delays continue

French right pushes for national tribute to film star Brigitte Bardot

Chinese monument in Panama toppled amid Trump’s canal fight

Turkey detains 357 suspected IS members in nationwide raids

Portraits of a Palestinian diaspora

As Russia’s war grinds on, its society is fraying

Khaleda Zia, first female prime minister of Bangladesh, dies

How ancient Sparta explains 2026

Anthony Joshua injured in Nigeria car crash that killed two team members

Spanish woman who found fame for botching fresco restoration dies

What growing up in war does to a child's brain - and how it really affects them years later