Russia's war in Ukraine sparked a historic food crisis. It's not over

Grain is once again leaving Ukrainian ports. The price of fertilizer is falling sharply. Billions of dollars in aid has been mobilized.


Watch: See Miss Ukraine's war-themed costume

During the national costume segment of the Miss Universe competition, some contestants chose to make political statements including Miss Ukraine, Viktoria Apanasenko, who made an impact with her reference to the ongoing war.

Chester Zoo announces birth of critically endangered Western chimpanzee

Extremely rare -- and extremely adorable.


Former Moscow-linked Church claims religious persecution as security raids heat up

The vertically shot video published last November shows no weapons, battlefield atrocities or even soldiers. But the sound of a patriotic Russian song reverberating through a church on Kyiv's famous Lavra monastery grounds seemed to open a new front in Ukraine's war with Russia.


The rise of the K-drama heroine

One of last year's most successful South Korean TV shows, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo," follows the story of a young autistic woman, Woo Young-woo, who navigates adulthood while winning cases at one of the nation's top law firms. Already renewed for a second season, it is now Netflix's sixth most-watched non-English television series and was recently nominated for a 2023 Critics' Choice Award.

More than 80,000 people turn out for Tel Aviv protest against Netanyahu government


'Command your troops, damn it!' How a series of security failures opened a path to insurrection in Brazil

A sea of people, draped in the yellow and green of the Brazilian flag, surge onto the roof of the country's modernist congressional building in the capital Brasilia, a video shared on social media shows.


China says 60,000 people have died of Covid since early December

Close to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight "zero-Covid" policy in early December, a medical official from the National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday.


Novak Djokovic says deportation from Australia helped him 'achieve some great results'

Novak Djokovic's long absence from competitive tennis at the start of last year after he was deported from Australia helped him "achieve some great results," he said in a press conference on Saturday ahead of the 2023 Australian Open.


UK condemns Iran's execution of dual British-Iranian citizen Alireza Akbari

A dual British-Iranian citizen was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and corruption, a state-affiliated media outlet reported Saturday, the latest in a string of executions carried out by a regime grappling with unprecedented protests across the country.