Ukrainian charged in Germany over Nord Stream blasts

Berlin law firm Menaker, which represents the Ukrainian man, told Reuters news agency that an indictment had been served on Wednesday. It gave no details of the charges.

Federal prosecutors confirmed for another news agency, AFP, that a man had been charged over the explosion.

According to German public broadcaster DW, which cited German media reports, the suspect is accused of leading a team of seven accomplices in an operation to destroy three of the four Nord Stream gas pipelines.

He is also accused of attacking civil energy infrastructure,


Nigeria to seek compensation for property abandoned by citizens fleeing South Africa

Nigeria's acting high commissioner said he had asked all of those who had left South Africa "to document very accurately those things they were leaving behind in terms of businesses, in terms of even cars, movable and immovable properties".

Foreign ministry spokesperson Ebienfa told the BBC that all claims would be verified before any formal request was made.

"We have not severed ties with South Africa, we are still engaging them at the highest level, we will sort those details using our usual diplomatic channels," he said


Bibles, Home Alone and perfume: Six things about how Trump made money in 2025

The president has two pensions with SAG-AFTRA, the trade union for American film and television actors. Last year, the pensions paid him a total of $86,532.

Trump appeared in films such as Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, where pint-sized hero Kevin McCallister - played by Macaulay Culkin - just happens to run into the businessman in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel.

His television credits include hosting the US version of The Apprentice and a cameo in the Fresh Prince of


Businessman goes on trial over murder of Maltese journalist

A Maltese businessman has gone on trial on the island over the 2017 car bomb assassination of prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, whose death shocked the nation.

Yorgen Fenech, 44, is accused of complicity in her murder. He has denied all the charges.

In 2022, brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio were jailed for 40 years for the killing of Caruana Galizia, a harsh critic of the government who had uncovered networks of corruption in Malta and abroad.

Two other men - Robert


Watch: Two people climb to highest point of Empire State Building

Two people displayed a banner at the top of the Empire State Building in New York City that appeared to say, “When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace". It was not immediately clear how the two managed to climb all the way to the top of the radio and television transmission tower.

Read more about the incident here.


Syria's president names final 70 lawmakers to new post-Assad parliament

Syria's Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has appointed the final 70 members of the country's new parliament, paving the way for it to hold its first session next week.

Fifteen of the new lawmakers are women and 13 were imprisoned during the rule of Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown in 2024. It is not clear how many are members of religious and ethnic minorities.

Last October, regional electoral colleges selected two-thirds of the 210-seat People'


Controversial bishops ordained as Pope warns of 'schism' in Catholic Church

The split is not just about SSPX's desire to conduct Mass only in Latin.

The Society, founded by controversial French archbishop Marcel Lefebre in 1970, has always wanted to preserve a kind of medieval mystique in which priests, bishops, cardinals, and the Mass itself are seen as somehow closer to God, and therefore separate from ordinary people.

SSPX has consistently defied the Vatican over multiple policies designed to make the Church more accessible and egalitarian, including establishing ties with other religions, recognising the right to


'Time for him to pay' - Carroll calls on Trump to pay $5m after president's appeal fails

Writer E Jean Carroll has asked a judge to order Donald Trump to pay the $5m (£3.7m) in damages awarded by a jury that found the president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case three years ago.

The request comes a day after the US Supreme Court declined Trump's request to review the case.

In May 2023, a New York jury awarded Carroll the damages over her civil claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990


Man guilty of attempted murder of three children in Dublin

A 52-year-old man has been found guilty of the attempted murder of three children and assaulting four other people in Dublin's Parnell Square in November 2023.

Riad Bouchaker, of no fixed address, was also found guilty of assault causing serious harm to crèche worker Leanne Flynn, and of assaulting two other children and a teenager.

The Central Criminal Court heard that a five-year-old girl has been left with a life-long brain injury after Bouchaker stabbed her in


Canada will take part in Eurovision Song Contest 2027

Canada is far from the first non-European country to join the contest. Israel and Australia regularly compete, and Morocco took part in 1980.

The Carney government said in November that it was working with the CBC, Canada's public broadcaster, "to explore participation in Eurovision".

His government's budget included C$150m (£80m) in funding for the broadcaster.

Eurovision's rules state that participation in the contest is open to countries with broadcasting organisations