Japanese authorities have sedated and captured a black bear, days after it was spotted roaming around a city near Tokyo.
A veterinarian fired a tranquiliser gun at the bear in Utsunomiya, home to half a million people, but missed the first shot. A second was fired about 15 minutes later, followed by a third.
Another "extremely intelligent" bear filmed chasing people in Fukushima is still evading officials, as Japan deals with a rise in bear encounters
Hundreds of aftershocks have jolted southern Philippines after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake left dozens of people dead and hundreds more injured.
The scale of devastation on Mindanao island is becoming clear as emergency responders reach coastal cities and towns. Officials fear the death toll, which currently stands at 37 dead and 487 injured, could rise.
Buildings have collapsed and roads are either cracked or buried in landslides. Large swathes of the island still have no electricity or telephone connectivity.
The earthquake, which
Reuters The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, has been suspended with immediate effect while an investigation into misconduct allegations continues.
The decision was made by a group within the ICC's management oversight body, which has also referred the matter to the court's 125 member states.
Those states will vote on Khan's future during a special session that will be convened "as soon as possible". The oversight Bureau stressed that the suspension does not prejudge the outcome of
Chinese President Xi Jinping has wrapped up a two-day visit to Pyongyang, his first official trip to North Korea since 2019.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pulled out all the stops for Xi when he arrived on Monday, from a red-carpet welcome to elaborate acrobatic performances.
While no concrete deals emerged from the trip, its significance was recognised by Kim, who said that Xi's choice of Pyongyang for his first state
Forward Seamen's Union of India/x.com/FSUIINDIA All 24 Indian seafarers aboard a tanker that caught fire off the coast of Oman after being struck by US forces have been rescued and evacuated safely, Indian authorities said.
Crew members of the unladen tanker had sent distress messages saying the vessel was on fire and sinking.
Monday's incident is the latest involving commercial shipping in Gulf waters
Kurdish Regional Government More than 300 migrants heading to the UK last summer were kidnapped, tortured and threatened with forced organ removal, the BBC has learned.
The young men, all from Iraqi Kurdistan, were captured in Libya by a militia who demanded a ransom of $5,000 (£3,700) from each of their families, and threatened to harvest the captives' kidneys if payment was
Donald Trump has been booed at a basketball match in New York as he became the first sitting US president to attend the NBA Finals.
The catcalls came after frustrated ticketholders waited for hours in lines that stretched more than two blocks outside Madison Square Garden on Monday due to the intense security restrictions that came with the president's appearance.
Trump was there to watch the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs in game three of the best-of-seven NBA finals
Israel's tit-for-tat strikes with Iran over the weekend, despite US President Donald Trump's call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold fire, threatened to thrust the Middle East back into another round of direct confrontation between Tehran and Washington.
Israel bombed sites in Iran for the first time since a ceasefire in April, after Iran fired missiles at Israel, in what Tehran said was retaliation for Israeli strikes on Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
The
Reuters Ukraine's sustained campaign of drone attacks on Russian-occupied territories is disrupting Moscow's supply lines and intensifying a fuel crisis already triggered by long-range strikes on Russia's oil refineries.
Crimea - which Russia illegally annexed in 2014 - in particular has been experiencing serious logistical difficulties and
BBC It's 07:25 am, 13 October 2024, at Starbase, near Boca Chica on the Texas side of the US/Mexico border, and on the launch pad stands the biggest rocket ever made. Its engines fire and it climbs into the skies over the Gulf of Mexico to cheers and screams in the SpaceX control room.
But the launch is not the main event. What goes up must come down – and how it comes down will become a milestone in space exploration