Reuters Donald Trump has urged the UK and other nations to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz to help secure the key shipping route out of the Middle East.
The US president said he hoped China, France, Japan and South Korea would also send ships to the passage, where a number of tankers are said to have been attacked since the US and Israel mounted their war against Iran a fortnight ago.
Responding to Trump's comments
Reuters Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers and public intellectuals in post-war Germany, has died aged 96.
Habermas, who began teaching philosophy and sociology at the University of Frankfurt in the 1960s, vocally supported the student revolt at West German universities at the time.
He was a leading member of the "Frankfurt School", a body of thought critical of capitalism from a "new left" perspective
Protesters in Cuba have ransacked a Communist Party building following a rally over steep food prices and persistent power cuts, in a rare show of public dissent.
Five people were arrested after a small group vandalised the offices in the central city of Moron overnight into Saturday, Cuba's Interior Ministry (Minint) said.
Discontent among Cubans has been mounting as the island is buffeted by rolling blackouts and shortages of food, fuel and medicine, exacerbated
Getty Images A US deep-sea treasure hunter who refused to disclose the location of a famed shipwreck's gold coins has been released from prison after a decade, with 500 coins still unaccounted for.
Tommy Thompson, 73, discovered millions of dollars' worth of sunken treasure from the 1857 wreckage of the SS Central America, also known as the
AFP via Getty Images Ric Grenell, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, is stepping down from his role as the head of Kennedy Center after a tumultuous year at the iconic performing arts venue.
Trump announced in a post on Truth Social that Grenell will be replaced by Matt Floca, the centre's vice-president of facilities operations.
Grenell, a former US ambassador to Germany, oversaw far-reaching changes at the centre that were followed by an exodus of artists and plummeting ticket sales.
Trump installed himself
AFP via Getty Images The Palestinian armed group Hamas has called on Iran to stop attacking Gulf states, in a rare appeal to its key ally.
The Tehran-backed group urged its "brothers in Iran to avoid targeting neighbouring countries", saying in a statement that all regional nations should co-operate "to preserve the bonds of brotherhood".
At the same time, Hamas, which runs Gaza
Alys Davies and
Frank Gardner , security correspondent, in Riyadh
Donald Trump has said the US military has bombed a small island off the coast of Iran - home to a major oil terminal that is considered the country's economic lifeline.
The US president said Kharg Island's military facilities were "totally obliterated" but that it had held off targeting its oil infrastructure.
Trump, however, warned that he would reconsider the decision not to target oil facilities on the island
EPA/Shutterstock An explosion has damaged a Jewish school in the Dutch capital Amsterdam, in what the city mayor condemned as a "deliberate attack against the Jewish community".
Mayor Femke Halsema said the overnight blast caused limited damage to the outer wall of the school in the Buitenveldert district. No injuries were reported.
"This is a cowardly act of aggression towards the Jewish community," Halsema said, stressing that Amsterdam "must be a place where Jews can live
James Waterhouse Europe correspondent, Val Thorens in the French Alps
BBC From the vantage point of our helicopter above the Alps, you can make out scars and dimples from recent avalanches.
More than 100 people have died across the mountains this season so far, according to the European Avalanche Warning Services – a ballpark figure not seen for eight years.
As our pilot throws his rescue helicopter over one of the jagged ridges below us,