US President Donald Trump has removed Attorney General Pam Bondi - a longtime ally and fierce defender of his administration - from her post as America's top law enforcement officer.
Trump praised her in a post on Truth Social and said she would be "transitioning" to a role in the private sector.
Bondi's time leading the justice department was often overshadowed by its handling of the release of files relating to Jeffrey Epstein and its investigation into
BBC Iran's two largest steel plants have been shut down due to multiple rounds of US-Israeli air strikes, the companies operating them say.
"Our initial estimate is that restarting these units will take at least six months and up to one year," Mehran Pakbin, deputy head of operations at the Khuzestan Steel Company in south-western Iran, was quoted as saying by Iranian media.
Mobarakeh Steel Company said its
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Until that moment the war was something happening in other parts of Tehran.
It had not touched the lives of "Setareh" and her colleagues. Then she heard an ominous noise and vibrations reached into the office.
She called out to her workmates: "I think it's a bomb." They left their desks and climbed the stairs to the roof of the building.
"We saw smoke rising into the sky, but we didn'
ANP/AFP A 2,500-year-old golden helmet considered one of Romania's greatest treasures has been recovered more than a year after it was stolen during a raid on a Dutch museum.
It and two golden bracelets dating back to about 450BC were unveiled as having been returned to the museum on Thursday, secured behind a glass case with two armed police guarding them. A third bracelet has
Getty Images In the tense final hours before Nasa's astronauts flew into space, a series of technical issues threatened to ground their landmark mission.
A faulty toilet and issues involving two safety systems were reported over the radio.
Nasa managed to resolve the problems by being "quick on their feet", an official later said.
The Artemis II crew are now hurtling around the Earth's orbit, carrying out final tests and checks before they head towards the Moon.
Here's what nearly went wrong - and what
Getty Images Donald Trump's prime-time Wednesday evening address on the war with Iran was intended to project control, but it also laid bare a central contradiction.
He declared Iran's military capabilities - its navy, air force, missile programme and nuclear enrichment infrastructure - largely destroyed, presenting the conflict as nearing its end.
Yet he coupled that with threats of further escalation in the coming