A judge has declared a mistrial in the rape case against Harvey Weinstein, after the jury in New York said it was deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict.
It marks the third time a New York jury has considered the case against the 74-year-old disgraced film mogul, who remains jailed on other charges.
The month-long trial was centred around whether Weinstein raped aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a hotel room more than a decade ago. He was initially convicted of raping her, before the
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released the wife of a US Army sergeant and Afghanistan veteran from detention, her lawyer confirmed to the BBC.
Deisy Rivera Ortega, who came to the US from El Salvador, was arrested on 14 April when she and her husband, Sgt Jose Serrano, went in for a scheduled immigration appointment in El Paso, Texas.
Serrano, who has served in the military for nearly 28 years, told the BBC that his wife's detention
Israel's prime minister and foreign minister accused the New York Times of "hideous and distorted lies"
The New York Times has said libel action threatened against it by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over an article alleging sexual assaults against Palestinian detainees by Israeli security services is "without merit".
It responded after Netanyahu and his foreign minister issued a statement saying they had ordered the "initiation of a defamation lawsuit".
It follows the publication on Monday of the article which claimed there was "a pattern
China's President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump discussed Taiwan during bilateral talks in Beijing
Donald Trump has cautioned Taiwan against formally declaring independence from China.
"I'm not looking to have somebody go independent," the US president told Fox News on Friday, at the end of his two-day summit with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Trump earlier said he had "made no commitment either way" about the self-governing island - which China claims as part of its territory
The prisoner exchange is described as the first stage of a swap of 1,000 people on each side
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 205 prisoners of war on Friday, hours after rescue workers ended their search of a destroyed block of flats in Kyiv in which 24 people were killed, including three girls.
Most of the Ukrainian prisoners had been held since 2022, said President Zelensky.
The swap was part of a short-lived ceasefire ending this week with the launch
The fatal shooting is the second in this area of Nantes within a month
French prosecutors say a 15-year-old boy has been killed and a boy of 13 seriously injured in a suspected drugs-related shooting in the western city of Nantes.
The attackers were wearing balaclavas and used automatic weapons, according to the country's Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez.
The 13-year-old and a third boy who was also wounded are now out of danger, Nuñez added
Actor Stephen Rea speaking at protest outside the headquarters of Irish broadcaster RTÉ in May 2025
From Johnny Logan and Dana to years of dominance in the early 1990s, Ireland has a storied history with the Eurovision Song Contest.
Ordinarily the country, which holds the joint record for most wins with Sweden, would join the rest of Europe in eagerly awaiting Saturday's grand final.
Ireland is one of five countries, with Iceland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, boycotting the contest
Australia's federal court found that Roxanne Tickle had been discriminated against by Giggle for Girls app founder Sall Grover
A Sydney court has doubled the discrimination payout for an Australian trans woman who was kicked off a female-only app.
It comes almost two years after Roxanne Tickle successfully sued Sall Grover, founder of the Giggle for Girls app, for blocking her account on the grounds of gender identity.
Grover lodged an appeal against that verdict, but on Friday, the Federal Court dismissed it and further found
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