The ICC's chief prosecutor announced he is seeking arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders.

Huge crowds queued in Sydney to catch a whiff of the flower that smells like 'hot rubbish'

Silk Road founder thanks US president for 'amazing blessing' in video message after his release from prison.

Ukraine also sends volley of drones into Russia, with air defences intercepting attacks on 13 regions, including Moscow.

During his first term in office, Trump met with Kim on three occasions between 2018 and 2019.

Despite protests from locals, India is building a giant hydro dam on the Siang River to counter a Chinese dam.

A statue of the British explorer is splashed with red paint and vandalised in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Thai capital ranked as eighth-most polluted city worldwide as microparticles levels soar.

Here are the key developments on the 1,065th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

UN agency says students in 85 countries experienced climate-related disruptions last year.

The UN body has received a formal request from Washington to withdraw next year as Trump orders a pause on WHO funding.

US president says 'everything will be revealed' on JFK assassination that has fuelled conspiracy theories for decades.

Chinese platforms have pledged to crack down on hate, but anti-foreigner sentiment still circulates widely online.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order related to AI to "make America the world capital in artificial intelligence," his aide told reporters in the White House's Oval Office. The order sets a 180-day deadline for an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan to create a policy "to sustain and enhance America’s global AI dominance in order to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security." Trump also told his AI adviser and national security assistant to work to remove policies and regulations put in place by former President Joe Biden. Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security. Biden's order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public. Trump also signed an executive order creating a cryptocurrency working group tasked with proposing a new regulatory framework for digital assets and exploring the creation of a cryptocurrency stockpile. The much-anticipated action also ordered that banking services for crypto companies be protected, and banned the creation of central bank digital currencies that could compete with existing cryptocurrencies. The order sees Trump fulfill a campaign trail pledge to be a "crypto president and promote the adoption of digital assets.” That is in stark contrast to Biden's regulators that, in a bid to protect Americans from fraud and money laundering, cracked down on crypto companies, suing exchanges Coinbase, Binance, Kraken and dozens more in federal court, alleging they were flouting U.S. laws. The working group will be made up of the Treasury secretary, attorney general and chairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, along with other agency heads. The group is tasked with developing a regulatory framework for digital assets, including stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency typically pegged to the U.S. dollar. The group is also set to "evaluate the potential creation and maintenance of a national digital asset stockpile ... potentially derived from cryptocurrencies lawfully seized by the Federal Government through its law enforcement efforts." In December, Trump named venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks as the crypto and artificial intelligence czar. He will chair the group, the order said. Finally, Trump signed pardons for 23 anti-abortion protesters on Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House. The pardons came a day before anti-abortion protesters were due to descend on Washington for the annual March for Life.

Hawkish foreign policy advisers from Trump's first presidency have faced alleged assassination threats from Iran.

Sudan's army was welcomed after taking Wad Madani, but has been accused of carrying out reprisal attacks since then.

Some senators express dismay that Italy ignored its obligations to the ICC to turn over suspects.

The military attack on Jenin began on Tuesday. At least 12 Palestinians have been killed across the governorate.

Trump's order targets a constitutional right automatically granting citizenship to anyone born in the country.

The deal is $1bn more than a settlement from last year that was rejected by the US Supreme Court.