Firefighters carrying gear at Wang Fuk Court November 28, 2025. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu |
- Residents of the housing complex that was engulfed in Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in seven decades were told by authorities last year that they faced "relatively low fire risks" after complaining repeatedly about fire hazards posed by ongoing renovation works. Our graphics team put together this excellent explainer of how the fire spread.
- The death toll from floods across large swathes of Southeast Asia rose to at least 241, with authorities working to rescue stranded citizens, restore power and communications and coordinate recovery efforts as the waters began to recede.
- US President Donald Trump said his administration will "permanently pause" migration from all "Third World Countries", following the death of a National Guard member in an attack near the White House.
- US bombings of alleged drug boats have led to stepped-up surveillance by authorities in Venezuela's remote northeastern state of Sucre, with increased patrols by security agencies and ruling-party supporters stoking fear among locals.
- Ten people were killed by Israeli fire in a village in southern Syria, Syrian state media reported, while the Israeli military said five soldiers were wounded in a clash during an operation to apprehend members of a militant group there.
- A Tunisian appeals court handed jail terms of up to 45 years to opposition leaders, businessmen and lawyers, a court document showed, in what critics said was a sign of President Kais Saied's increasingly authoritarian rule.
- Ukraine's anti-corruption agencies searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's powerful chief of staff, escalating a major political crisis as Kyiv faces pressure from Washington to accept terms for a peace deal.
- An unusually early outbreak of bird flu cases affecting high numbers of wild birds and poultry farms across Europe and North America is raising concerns of a repeat of previous crises that led to mass culling and food price spikes.
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Shoppers wait outside a Target store for Black Friday deals. Westbury, New York. November 28, 2025. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton |
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Hospital massacre caps a long series of attacks on healthcare in war-torn Sudan |
A December 2024 attack destroyed walls and ceilings at Saudi Hospital in al-Fashir. REUTERS via MSF |
Almost 500 patients, their relatives and others were killed at al-Fashir's last functioning hospital during the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' recent takeover of the Sudanese city, the World Health Organization reported. The attack is an example of increasingly targeted and brutal attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical workers during conflict worldwide, a Reuters investigation found. |
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Cats crowd the harbour on Aoshima Island in the Ehime prefecture in southern Japan. February 25, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo |
Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. But despite their popularity as pets, the history of cat domestication has remained difficult for scientists to decipher. A new genome study is providing some insight into the matter by determining the timing of a key milestone in feline domestication - the introduction of domestic cats into Europe from North Africa. |
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