As they strolled through Tiananmen Square in Beijing last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to muse over the possibility that organ transplants could dramatically extend human life.

"Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and even achieve immortality", Putin's interpreter was heard saying.

"Some predict that in this century, humans may live up to 150 years old," Xi's interpreter was heard responding.

Hours after meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week, Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Taiwan against pursuing independence.

"I'm not looking to have somebody go independent. And, you know, we're supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war. I'm not looking for that. I want them to cool down. I want China to cool down,"

"Hello ma'am, I'm calling from FedEx. We've been alerted by police that a courier you sent to Iraq contains drugs."

This is what a man on the other end of the phone told Ankita Shrivastav, a stand-up comedian based in Mumbai city, one afternoon in October 2024. What followed was one of the most harrowing experiences of her life

At a rally in a parking lot outside his campaign headquarters in Florence, Kentucky, on Saturday, Congressman Thomas Massie said that the Republican politicians who joined him had made a brave choice.

"I'm sure they'll be punished for coming here today," he said.

It didn't take long for Massie's warning to prove prophetic, as Donald Trump took to Truth Social to make his displeasure known.

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert

As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan.

They line the roadside hoping someone will come along offering any work. It will determine whether their families eat that day.

The likelihood of success, however, is low.

Juma Khan, 45, has found just three days of work in the past six weeks that paid between 15

An American tested positive for Ebola after being exposed while working with a medical missionary group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, US officials said on Monday.

The American is being evacuated to Germany for treatment after developing symptoms over the weekend, said Dr Satish Pillai, Ebola response incident manager with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

At least 100 deaths have been reported in an Ebola outbreak in the DR Congo, with more than 390 cases suspected, the

The US justice department has announced a $1.7bn (£1.3bn) fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump who allege they were unfairly investigated by the Biden administration.

The "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was unveiled "in exchange" for the president dropping his $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the leak of his tax returns, said the justice department

US President Donald Trump has said he is holding off a military attack on Iran planned for Tuesday at the request of Gulf states as "serious negotiations are now taking place".

In a post on Truth Social, he said he had been asked to do so by the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Trump said he had been informed

A California jury has tossed out Elon Musk's high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman.

In a unanimous verdict, the jury agreed that Musk had waited too long to file his lawsuit, leaving all of his claims essentially expired.

Musk had of breaching a non-profit contract by shifting the ChatGPT-maker to a for-profit company after Musk donated $38m (£