A woman in her 90s has been found alive under rubble five days after a devastating earthquake struck central Japan.

Madrid's city hall has apologised after distributing videos featuring a white actor wearing blackface as part of wildly popular Epiphany festivities.

In his first campaign speech of 2024, President Joe Biden cast his likely election opponent, Donald Trump, as a fundamental threat to American democracy.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's young daughter, who has accompanied him to missile tests and military parades, is his "most likely" successor, the South's spy agency has said.

A student shot six people, one of them fatally, at a high school in the US state of Iowa before taking his own life on the first day back from holiday break, police said.

Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, says the killing of Hamas's powerful deputy leader will "not go unpunished".

Ukraine and Russia have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war, in what is being described by officials in Kyiv as the biggest swap of the war.

President Vladimir Putin has pledged to "intensify" attacks against Ukraine, following days of aerial bombardment by both sides in the long-running war.

Israel's Supreme Court has struck down a controversial judicial reform that triggered nationwide protests last year against the Netanyahu government.