Getty Images US President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing ended with a tour of Zhongnanhai, the exclusive, heavily guarded 14th Century compound where top Chinese leaders live and work.
Xi leading him on the tour was yet another moment for the cameras in a two-day trip heavy on pageantry but scant on details about policy agreed by both sides.
The much-anticipated summit between the superpowers follows tensions over trade
US President Donald Trump left Beijing after a two-day summit saying he had struck "fantastic trade deals, great for both countries", but few details have emerged on what the two superpowers agreed.
Trump arrived for a high-stakes summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday, accompanied by several CEOs: spanning agriculture, aviation, electric vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) chips.
Trade was near the top of the agenda despite recent tensions over the
Universal Images Group via Getty Images Africa's top health agency has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern Ituri province.
Around 246 cases and 65 deaths have been reported, mainly in the gold-mining towns of Mongwalu and Rwampara, said the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa).
Its statement on Friday added that
Getty Images Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani have agreed to pay a combined $18m in penalties filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
In 2024, the regulator had accused the Adanis of paying bribes to Indian officials for high-profile renewable energy projects and misleading US investors about anti-bribery practices while trying to raise funds through a bond offering.
The proposed deal is subject to
CJ Washington Walking the streets of Kansas City, Houston, Miami and New York it is hard not to notice a World Cup is coming.
Billboards abound, there are signs outside bars and stores are churning out tournament-themed merchandise.
But for hoteliers checking their booking systems, the buzz is more of a murmur.
The industry body says most hotels in World Cup host cities are seeing bookings lower than this time last year, and those who spoke
BBC The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know".
But it is not clear whether the creator of the videos knows the UK
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Katya was about to blow out the candles on her 30th birthday cake when masked men burst into the nightclub hired for her party, and began physically and verbally attacking her friends.
"They called us faggots and lesbians. I could hear violence from every corner," she told a BBC World Service investigation. Her mother was told to get down on all fours, she says.
The swoop was instigated by a
NurPhoto via Getty Images As the war in Iran drags into its third month with no clear end in sight, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is asking Indians to tighten their belts in ways not seen since the pandemic.
Work from home if possible, . Avoid unnecessary foreign travel. Buy less gold. Consume less fuel.
The appeal, delivered at a public event in Hyderabad on Sunday, carried echoes of the Covid years, when the prime minister relied
Getty Images The Supreme Court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be accessed by mail.
Two manufacturers that make the pill had asked the Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court placed significant restrictions on access to mifepristone as part of an ongoing lawsuit.
Thursday's order from the high court blocks those limitations while litigation plays out. Access to the pill will likely remain until that lawsuit is decided, which could happen next year.
Abortion pills are the most common method of terminating pregnancies