Major rule changes have been announced ahead of the 2026 World Cup - including expanded powers for VAR, 10-second substitutions and a crackdown on tactical timeouts.

UK forces helped the French navy intercept an oil tanker under international sanctions that was coming from Russia, alleged to be part of its shadow fleet.

Hundreds of young demonstrators marched outside a military base in Kenya over US plans for an Ebola quarantine zone in the country.

It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.

Scores of people have been killed following a blast at a building in northeastern Myanmar.

Five people have recovered from a rare type of Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organisation said - as suspected cases were investigated in Brazil and Italy.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.  

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has visited the province hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials.

A Kanye West concert in Italy has been cancelled over public order and security concerns.

Unmanned undersea vehicles will be developed under the AUKUS defence pact, US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth said.

Four people trapped for 10 days in a flooded cave in Laos have been safely evacuated by rescuers.