World

A GOES-16 satellite image of a nor'easter over the Northeastern United States in February 2021.

Nor'easter stalls off the East Coast, killing a man in Brooklyn and cutting power to about 100,000

A satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran (north) and the Arabian Peninsula (south), captured by NASA's MODIS sensor in December 2020.

Trump rejects Iran's plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in seven days

A GOES satellite image of Hurricane Polo off Mexico's southwest coast on 23 September 2026.

Hurricane Polo weakens to Category 4 off Baja California Sur as Mexico braces for two landfalls

A map of sea surface temperature anomalies on 21 August 2023: the warm band across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific is the signature of a developing El Niño.

Study projects 451,000 extra heat deaths by February as El Niño strengthens

Pope Leo XIV crosses St Peter's Square in the popemobile during the Mass inaugurating his pontificate, at the Vatican, in May 2025.

Pope Leo XIV lands in France and will hear seven abuse survivors in Lourdes

An aerial view of part of Kandahar province, in southern Afghanistan, in 2013. The province was one of three hit by Thursday's Pakistani air strikes.

Pakistan strikes 10 targets across three Afghan provinces, and the Taliban vows to respond

Health workers in personal protective equipment at an Ebola treatment unit run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Liberia in 2014.

Ebola has killed more than 3,700 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the WHO sees the first signs of a retreat

The seat of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, seen from the Maurits Kiekpad, in May 2026.

International justice

ICC convicts Seleka commander of crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during the UN General Assembly in New York on 22 September 2026.

Ballistic missiles kill two in Kyiv hours after Zelensky offers an energy truce at the UN

Seven Ethiopian armed groups join forces in an alliance to remove Abiy Ahmed

The UN General Assembly hall at the organisation's New York headquarters in February 2024.

UN General Assembly

Trump speaks second at the UN on Tuesday, then hosts Xi at the White House on Thursday

The State Duma building, the lower house of Russia's parliament, in Moscow.

United Russia takes 57.86% in Duma election that closed under the largest drone attack on Moscow since 2022

President Donald J. Trump at the Pentagon ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, on September 11, 2026.

Iran sends Washington its terms for ending the war and says it is waiting on Trump

Michelle Bachelet during a meeting at the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília in July 2024.

Bachelet drops out of the UN secretary-general race

Elif Eralp, Die Linke's lead candidate, at the party's closing campaign rally for the Berlin election, outside the Rotes Rathaus, on 18 September 2026.

Die Linke wins Berlin while the AfD comes first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

The Palais des Nations in Geneva, the UN's European headquarters and home of the Human Rights Office, in 2014.

UN documents 1,004 cases of sexual violence in the war in Ukraine, 89% attributed to Russian authorities

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in 2025. Residents reported smoke over the terminal's fuel tank area at dawn on Saturday.

Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted Houthi missile fired at Riyadh

Pituffik Space Base, the only US military installation in Greenland, seen from a nearby mountain in 2019.

US, Denmark and Greenland agree a security deal that leaves Danish sovereignty intact

The Vienna International Centre, home of the IAEA, seen from the Danube in 2014.

North Korea rejects IAEA resolution passed 103 to 6, calls its nuclear status irreversible

The Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594) steams in the Adriatic Sea in June 2023.

Italy to send warships to Bab al-Mandeb without waiting for the European Union