The US Senate has voted to approve Senator Markwayne Mullin as the country's new head of the Department of Homeland Security.
The 54-45 vote was the final step in a rapid approval process. Once sworn in, Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter with a fiery personality, will oversee the nation's immigration enforcement, border protection and airport security.
President Donald Trump nominated Mullin this month after removing former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem from the position.
Maria Jevstafjeva , BBC Global Disinformation Unit ,
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Serviço de Investigação Criminal de Angola
Lev Lakshtanov, Igor Ratchin, Amor Carlos Tomé and Francisco Oliveira (left to right) have been awaiting trial in Luanda for eight months
Two Russians are due to go on trial in Angola accused of stirring up anti-government protests, conducting a campaign of disinformation, and attempting to interfere in next year's presidential election.
University of Southampton Delhi was the first UK university to open a campus in India
On the shores of Mumbai's Powai lake - a rare pocket of serenity in the bustling metropolis of more than 20 million people - a glitzy new campus of the University of York is getting its final finishing touches.
The institute has begun recruiting students for the 2026-27 academic year, and operations are set to commence in the next few months.
A jury in California has ordered Bill Cosby to pay $19.25m (£14.3m) in damages to a former waitress after finding he drugged and sexually assaulted her while taking her to one of his shows more than five decades ago.
Donna Motsinger said the former star gave her wine and a pill that left her incapacitated after picking her up at her home in a limousine in 1972.
Cosby, 88, has denied Motsinger's allegations, along
Watch: ICE agents at Atlanta airport as DHS shutdown continues
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have deployed to major airports across the country, helping to fill the void as thousands of security staff who are going without pay refuse to work.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees are increasingly absent, having not received pay in weeks due to a partial government shutdown that began on 14 February.
Their absence has created huge queues and hours-long wait times at airport security checkpoints. More than 3,4
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Watch: Footage shows smoke and scattered debris from Air Force plane crash in Colombia
A Colombian Air Force plane has crashed in the south of the country, near the border with Peru.
Air force commander Carlos Fernando Silva Rueda confirmed 114 passengers were on board, as well as 11 crew members. He said so far 48 people had been recovered from the plane with injuries and were in hospital.
Parastesh Dahaghin (right) and Berivan Molan (left) are just two of many civilian casualties in the war
Parastesh Dahaghin was a young pharmacist killed in an explosion while she was at work.
Berivan Molani was in bed when debris from an air strike in Tehran struck her head.
For more than three weeks, Tehran and other cities have been pummelled by US and Israeli airstrikes - with thousands of targets hit across the country.
And reports of civilian casualties from these strikes are
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