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FBI now says driver responsible for deadly New Orleans rampage acted alone

The FBI now says that the pickup truck driver responsible for a deadly rampage in New Orleans acted alone.

Sri Lanka beats New Zealand by 7 runs in 3rd T20, Kiwis clinch series 2-1

Perera's career-best score in a century partnership with captain Charirth Asalanka lifted Sri Lanka to 218-5 its second-highest T20 score, as it batted first for the first time in the series.

Israeli strikes kill at least 18 in Gaza, including 3 children: Reports

One strike early Thursday hit a tent in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone known as Muwasi, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering in tents during the cold and rainy winter

Yoon Suk Yeol issues defiant message as authorities mull his detention

Yoon said he would continue to fight against anti-state forces violating our sovereignty and putting the nation in danger

Driver expressed desire to kill before New Orleans rampage, says Biden

The FBI said it was investigating the attack early Wednesday as a terrorist act and did not believe the driver acted alone

Firework mortars inside Tesla that exploded outside Trump's Las Vegas hotel

Musk said Wednesday afternoon on X that we have now confirmed that the explosion was caused by very large fireworks and/or a bomb carried in the bed of the rented Cybertruck

Russia warns of environmental harm as oil from tankers pollute beaches

Authorities in Russia's southern Krasnodar region last week announced a region-wide emergency, as the fuel oil continued washing up on the coastline

Driver rams New Year's revellers in New Orleans, killing 15; FBI probe on

The FBI said it is investigating the attack early Wednesday in the city's famed French Quarter as a terrorist act and does not believe the driver acted alone

FBI finds 150 homemade bombs in Virginia in one of its largest seizures

Investigators seized more than 150 pipe bombs and other homemade devices when they searched the home of Brad Spafford northwest of Norfolk in December

S Korean investigators extract black box data to find exact cause of crash

All but two of the 181 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 737-800 operated by Jeju Air died when it crashed at Muan International Airport, in southern South Korea

10 dead, 30 injured after car plows into New Year crowd in US New Orleans

New Orleans police earlier said they were responding to a mass casualty incident, including fatalities

Israeli strikes kill 12 Palestinians in Gaza as war grinds into 2025

The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and abducting around 250

Taiwan's president vows to boost defence budget as China threats rise

Taiwan has been reforming its military and buying weapons from the United States, its biggest unofficial ally

Planning to attend funeral services of Jimmy Carter, says Donald Trump

Funeral services honouring Carter, who died at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, beginning Jan. 4 and concluding Jan. 9

Thousands in Serbia turn New Year celebrations into anti-govt protests

The tragedy has been attributed to corruption and substandard construction practices by the populist Serbian leadership

US sanctions Russian, Iranian groups for disinformation targeting voters

US intelligence agencies have blamed the Iranian government for seeking to encourage protests in the US over Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza

Panama marks 25 years of Canal handover as Trump wants to take it back

The commemoration was made more poignant by the death on Sunday of former US President Jimmy Carter

France's Macron acknowledges that dissolving parliament in 2024 backfired

Macron expressed hope that lawmakers will form ad hoc majorities to pass legislation and said our government should be able to follow a path of compromise to get things done

US stock markets to remain closed on Jan 9 in honour of Jimmy Carter

Both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq announced this week that they plan to close their equity and options markets next Thursday

Zimbabwe's Prez, who once faced death penalty, approves Bill to abolish it

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who once faced the death penalty himself in the 1960s during the war of independence, approved the law this week after a bill passed through Parliament