Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three days.

Ex-central banker Mark Carney will be formally sworn in as prime minister of Canada on Friday, putting him in a position to fight tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump that could devastate the ...

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent U.S. President Donald Trump a message about his proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine via Trump's special envoy and that there ...

A blast tore through a mosque on Friday in northwestern Pakistan, police said, injuring an Islamist party leader and three others, including children.

Civil society groups are urging key role players in the South African egg industry to reject what they say are ‘cruel and unsustainable systems, such as battery cages, and to make independent, ethical ...

It was supposed to be refreshingly different. Surely, this year they were finally going to get it right. So have they? Not really. What’s there is lovely. It’s exclusions from the Eat Out restaurant ...

My month-long challenge to go vegetarian has turned into a lasting lifestyle change, bringing unexpected benefits such as improved digestion, clearer skin, and more energy.

Viewed as an absurdist dark comedy, or live-action horror cartoon for grown-ups, The Monkey is a gory good time, subverting audience expectations at every turn. Just don’t enter the cinema expecting ...

As stocks perk up on the promise of a US government shutdown being averted, investors remain jittery over a brewing trade war, with gold gleefully hitting record highs while the dollar tries to ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a US proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but that any truce would have to address the root causes of the conflict and that ...

Portugal will hold an early parliamentary election - its third in just over three years - on May 18, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday, two days after the centre-right minority ...

Physical voting in South Africa faces many issues like big ballot papers, long waiting times at polling stations and low voter turnout. In a bid to explore electronic voting’s potential, the IEC ...