Dozens of people are feared dead or injured at a drug treatment centre in Afghanistan's capital after an air strike that the Taliban government blamed on Pakistan.

The hospital in Kabul was hit on Monday evening, killing some people and injuring others, the government's spokesman said on X.

Pakistan denied striking any health facility, saying it "precisely targeted military installations and terrorist

Donald Trump has said he believes people with learning disabilities should not be president, as he renewed his taunts at California Governor Gavin Newsom over his dyslexia.

President Trump said Newsom, a potential Democratic White House contender, was "dumb". He also made fun last week of the California governor's difficulty with reading and spelling, prompting Newsom to call him "a brain-dead moron".

The National Center for Learning Disabilities told the BBC it was "disturbed by

A Utah mother who published a children's book about grief after the sudden death of her husband has been found guilty of his murder.

A jury found that Kouri Richins killed her husband in March 2022 by poisoning him with a fentanyl-laced drink. The jury deliberated the case for about three hours before reaching its verdict on Monday.

During the trial, the court heard how Richins, 35, had racked

A Palestinian woman who was detained during Gaza war protests at Columbia University has been released after a year in immigration detention in Texas, her lawyers say.

Leqaa Kordia, 33, was among more than 100 demonstrators arrested outside the New York City college's campus in April 2024, but she was released.

She was arrested again in March 2025 during a routine immigration check-

Moving English tests online for migrants who want a visa to come to the UK could open the door to fraudsters and criminal gangs, the largest international providers of English language exams have warned.

Under the new £816m contract, which could be operational by December, English exams for Home Office visas would become "fully digital" and could be sat at a

In the third week of the joint US-Israeli war against Iran, Donald Trump faces decisions that could define the rest of his presidency.

But if the American commander-in-chief is grappling with a war of choice that seems in danger of spiralling in ways he can't control, those concerns are not playing out in public.

In more than an hour of public remarks at the White House on Monday, he discussed his thinking on the state of the war effort - and

Thousands of people have been fleeing the South Sudanese town of Akobo and surrounding parts of Jonglei state, where the army says it has intensified strikes on its enemies to regain control.

The latest fighting has led the UN to warn of a possible return to full-blown civil war in the world's youngest nation.

Nyawan Koang, 30, and her five children had to walk for two days to

The US artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic is a chemical weapons and high-yield explosives expert to try to prevent "catastrophic misuse" of its software.

In other words, it fears that its AI tools might tell someone how to make chemical or radioactive weapons, and wants an expert to ensure its guardrails are sufficiently robust.

In the LinkedIn recruitment post, the firm says applicants should have a minimum of five years experience in "chemical weapons and/or explosives defence" as well

Tornadoes, thunderstorms and blizzard conditions are forecast to pummel parts of the eastern US.

More than 34 million people were under tornado watches from Florida to New Jersey.

Nearly 3ft (0.9m) of snow has fallen in Minnesota, Wisconsin and northern Michigan since the storm began this weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

The bulk of the storm is expected to churn off the east coast into the Atlantic by Tuesday, with abnormally cold weather