Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

If at times this year it seemed that Steve Witkoff, the US president’s Mr. Fix-it for pretty much everything, was much too close to the Kremlin, we now know why — thanks to a scoop from Bloomberg News. It’s because he was.

The 21-year-old, who fled the war in Ukraine three years ago, is set to be promoted to sumo's second-highest rank this week.

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz renewed their push for a stronger and more autonomous Europe this week. They called for less red tape in technology, more cross-border partnerships like Parisian artificial-intelligence darling Mistral AI’s venture with SAP SE and a redoubling of efforts to get Franco-German defense projects like a new fighter plane off the ground. “We have a duty to succeed,” said Macron.

I don’t mean to be overly rude about country music — I’ve acquired a strong taste for it since living in the US — but it probably surprises few that the genre often derided for its formulaic nature wa...

India’s state-run refiners have signed their first long-term deal with the US to import 2.2 million tons of LPG next year, a strategic bid to boost energy ties as New Delhi courts a trade pact with Washington.

An alleged Chinese racketeer linked to a hugely lucrative scam hub in Myanmar was extradited from Thailand to China on Wednesday, a police official in Bangkok told AFP.

The Turkish defense minister said that 20 Air Force servicemen died when their military cargo plane crashed after taking off from Azerbaijan on Tuesday.

What’s a Latin American hairdresser doing in a local election 9,000 miles away?

The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.

India’s power grid is struggling to absorb a surge in solar power installations, leading to more curtailment that threatens the build-out of renewables and underscores the need for energy storage.

Air passengers departing Singapore will pay a green fuel levy of as much as S$41.60 ($31.95) from next year as the city-state locks in a key step in its effort to cut the aviation industry’s emissions.

This is what happens when the fringe becomes the mainstream (and vice versa).

Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita

Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world. The detainees include at least two civilians who are being held without charge or trial: a nurse detained in his scrubs, and a young food seller, according to lawyers from the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) who represent both men. Continue reading...

Malgré le danger, l’argent nécessaire pour y parvenir et les maigres chances de succès, des milliers de jeunes Bangladais tentent, chaque année, de rejoindre l’Europe en passant par la Méditerranée, l...

Comments by Karoline Leavitt come after allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech Donald Trump’s press secretary has described the BBC as “100% fake news” and a “propaganda machine” in an outspoken interview that comes after allegations of bias at the broadcaster. Karoline Leavitt, a senior White House official in the Trump administration, said watching BBC bulletins while on trips to the UK “ruins” her day, saying taxpayers were being “forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine”. Continue reading...