Christmas market attacker jailed for life for murdering six in Germany
A court in Germany has sentenced a man to life in prison for an attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg in 2024, in which six people were killed.
The court imposed the maximum sentence on the defendant, Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, who is from Saudi Arabia. The 51-year-old was found guilty of murder.
Prosecutors say he drove a rented BMW car at speeds of up to 48km/h (30mph) through the Christmas market in the centre of Magdeburg
Senior Ukrainian intelligence official jailed for life for spying for Russia
A former high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence official has been sentenced to life in prison for spying for Russia's FSB security service.
Col Dmytro Kozyura was found guilty of high treason under martial law, Ukraine's prosecutor general said. He was previously chief of staff of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) anti-terrorism centre.
An operation codenamed "rat" found he had used a safehouse in Kyiv to communicate with Russian handlers seeking classified information about Ukraine's military and leadership, the SBU said
Moment woman pulled from rubble alive after Venezuela earthquake
Rescuers pulled a woman alive from rubble after 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes struck Venezuela.
Officials say at least 235 people have been killed and 4,300 injured, with many still trapped and missing.
In La Guaira, one of the most affected areas, Graciela Mora was pulled from under the rubble of a collapsed building.
She was rescued with injuries, including a broken finger, but a friend she was with at the time died.
She told the Associated Press she held her
Housing board votes to freeze New York rents in victory for Mamdani
A New York City housing board has approved a key pledge made by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to freeze rents for about one million regulated apartments.
The result of the vote on Thursday was greeted with cheers and whistles from hundreds of people in Manhattan as the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) approved a freeze on both one and two year leases.
Mamdani said in a statement that it was a "historic victory for New York City tenants".
The board voted in favour of the policy 7-1, hours after the public resignation
Asia stock markets slide as tech shares slump
Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday, led by a sell-off in technology firms as investors worried that recent jumps in share prices had gone too far.
Trading on South Korea's Kospi was temporarily halted as an 8% fall in the benchmark index triggered a mechanism intended to curb panic selling. The index closed 5.8% lower.
It comes after shares in Apple fell sharply on Thursday after it announced it would raise the prices of its iPads and MacBooks due to the soaring cost of computer chips.
Reflecting Pool liner cut with sharp knife or razor, National Park Service says
Renovations to the The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool started in April and went on for two months, under Trump's request, ahead of the 250th anniversary of the United States.
"The 2,000-foot-long basin was drained" and "a tinted polyurea liner" was installed in the pool to "waterproof and protect the concrete pool surface", the NPS outlined in its statement.
But after being refilled with water, the pool was plagued by an algae bloom and developed issues
Aerial footage reveals destruction in coastal Venezuela
After two major earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday, aerial footage has revealed the destruction wrought in the coastal city of La Guaira.
Multi-storey buildings have collapsed across the city, which is situated to the north of Venezuela's capital, Caracas.
Rescues and prayers a day after Venezuelan earthquakes
At least 235 people were killed when two major earthquakes rocked Venezuela on Wednesday evening, the country's health authorities say.
A day after the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude quakes, the BBC's Vanessa Silva is in Caracas as rescuers continue to search through the rubble for survivors.
Row over alleged theft of donations from India's landmark Ram temple
Two-and-a-half years after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram, the shrine is embroiled in an unsavoury row over allegations that donations from devotees worth tens of millions of rupees have been embezzled.
The temple in the once-flashpoint city of Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh replaced a 16th-Century mosque torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking riots in which nearly 2,000 people died.
Since its inauguration in
Why the trail went cold in Nancy Guthrie case
"There was absolutely no reason to release that crime scene," said Joseph Giacalone, retired NYPD sergeant, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the author of a textbook about criminal investigation now in its fourth edition.
"That entire house, the property, should have been cordoned off. No one should have stepped foot in that location other than law enforcement, and only for the purposes of doing the investigation."
Even if arrests were made in the future, he said, possible crime scene management