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UFC fighters to train FBI agents at Quantico 8 hours ago Share Save Sareen Habeshian Share Save Reuters Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) athletes will be training agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week, both organisations say. Current...

King expresses 'concern' over Alberta separatists in meeting with First Nations chiefs 3 hours ago Share Save Nadine Yousif Senior Canada reporter Share Save PA Media First Nations Grand Chief Joey Pete called the meeting with King Charles III "significant"...

Mohammad Pournajaf was Tehran’s charge d’affaires in Canberra until at least 2023. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP View image in fullscreen Mohammad Pournajaf was Tehran’s charge d’affaires in Canberra until at least 2023. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Former Iranian diplomat was granted asylum...

OK By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung said Friday the government will step up coordinated efforts to advance artificial intelligence (AI) transformation across industrial sectors in partnership with the private sector. Lee made the...

OK By Lee Haye-ah SEOUL, March 13 (Yonhap) -- Police raided the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on Friday to secure material for its investigation into the 2024 Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people. An office of...

'There's no hiding place on a ship': The sailors stranded near Iran 25 minutes ago Share Save Mohammad Zubair Khan , BBC News Urdu , Aye Thu San , BBC News Burmese , Hyojung Kim , BBC News Korean and...

'I missed my chemo and have a £12,000 hotel bill': British holidaymakers stranded by Iran war 59 minutes ago Share Save Danielle Codd , Business reporter and Jennifer Meierhans , Business reporter Share Save Andrea Pendrey Andrea Pendrey has missed...

French vote tests polarised electorate with right hoping to win control of Paris 60 minutes ago Share Save Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent Share Save Reuters/BBC/Léa Guedj Emmanuel Grégoire (L) and Rachida Dati are the front-runners in the race for Paris...

MPs 'deeply troubled' by BBC World Service funding uncertainty 26 minutes ago Share Save Ian Youngs Culture reporter Share Save Getty Images A committee of MPs have said they are "deeply troubled" by uncertainty over the government's future funding for...

Netflix announces KPop Demon Hunters' sequel 1 hour ago Share Save Osmond Chia Business reporter Share Save Netflix Netflix has announced a sequel to KPop Demon Hunters, the streaming platform's most watched movie of all time. The announcement comes as...

Can plastic-eating funghi help clean up nappy waste? 12 minutes ago Share Save Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Share Save Leila Green Leila Green's triplets would get through 25 nappies a day Before Leila Green became a mother of triplets three...

The MPs found offers for redress from the Horizon shortfall scheme, which is the largest of the three and administered by the Post Office, were routinely overturned and increased after an appeal. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock View image in...

Politics Trump blames Iran for the war — critics question the diplomacy March 12, 2026 5:24 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered Michele Kelemen Trump blames Iran for the war — critics question the diplomacy Listen · 3:48 3:48...

Treasury Department said Thursday it sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their roles in North Korea-orchestrated information technology (IT) worker schemes, which it accused of defrauding American businesses and generating revenue to fund Pyongyang's weapons programs. The department's Office...

OK (ATTN: RECASTS headline; UPDATES throughout) By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, March 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Prime Minister Kim Min-seok met with U.S. During Kim's previous trip to Washington in January, he proposed to Vance the idea of the U.S....

The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the measure, noting that the latest sanctions are part of the United States' "whole-of-government" effort to counter Pyongyang's wide-ranging revenue generation schemes. "The North Korean regime targets American companies through deceptive...

Architecture Chilean Smiljan Radić Clarke wins architecture's highest honor March 12, 2026 9:44 AM ET Neda Ulaby Teatro Regional del Bío-Bío, 2018, Concepción, Chile Iwan Baan/The Pritzker Architecture Prize hide caption toggle caption Iwan Baan/The Pritzker Architecture Prize Smiljan Radić...

‘The best way for us to respond to the devastation of this war is to strengthen the mechanisms that should never have allowed it to occur in the first place.’ Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters View image in fullscreen ‘The best way...

Iran issues statement purported to be from new leader as war with U.S. and Israel rages Updated March 12, 2026 10:11 AM ET Originally published March 12, 2026 6:07 AM ET By NPR Staff Mojtaba Khamenei (center), the son of...

Photograph: Bungie/Sony Marathon is a stylishly merciless video game built for cut-throat times A lot is riding on the success of the latest multiplayer online shooter from Halo creator Bungie, a DayGlo spectacular that whisks players to a far-off planet...

Invisible progress I did not produce a single lead-author paper between my final publication as a graduate student in 2017 and the first paper I published as a postdoc in 2022. Career Feature 09 MAR 26 The ethical risks of...

Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Shell CEO’s pay jumps 60% despite slump in profits at oil company Campaigners say people unlikely to ‘look favourably’ on package for Wael Sawan, which rose to £13.8m in 2025 The chief executive of Shell saw his...

Jo Malone has described her decision to sell the rights to her name as ‘biggest mistake of my life’. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Jo Malone has described her decision to sell the rights to her name as...

How Iran war laid bare the world's reliance on Gulf oil and gas 9 minutes ago Share Save Nick Marsh , Asia business reporter and Shanaz Musafer , Business reporter Share Save Getty Images Bangladesh has seen huge queues at...

OK (ATTN: UPDATES throughout with bill's passage; CHANGES photo) By Yi Wonju SEOUL, March 12 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly on Thursday passed a special bill on South Korea's US$350 billion investment pledge to the United States under a trade...

How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents 2 days ago Share Save Marianna Spring Social Media Investigations Correspondent Share Save BBC Friday February 27th should have been like any other day...

Welsh Water to pay £44.7m after 'unacceptable' sewage failures 30 minutes ago Share Save Antonia Matthews BBC Wales Share Save Getty Images Ofwat said Welsh Water failed to properly operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater network Welsh Water is set...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un fires a pistol at a shooting range on March 11, 2026, during his inspection of a factory for light, portable weapons, accompanied by his daughter Ju-ae, in this photo published by the Korean Central News...

John Lewis to pay first staff bonus for four years 20 minutes ago Share Save Share Save Getty Images John Lewis is awarding its staff a bonus for the first time in four years as the retailer continues its turnaround....

Hopes that the market turmoil in the energy market might have abated are fading rapidly today, as Iran escalates its attacks on infrastructure and transport networks across the Gulf. These widespread Iranian attacks on Middle Eastern energy facilities drove Brent...