February 2026

Italian police have fired tear gas and water cannon at protesters who threw firecrackers, smoke bombs and bottles at them near a Winter Olympics venue. Officers in riot gear and with shields confronted about 100 protesters, some of whom wore hoods and scarves to cover their faces, after they broke away from a main demonstration

The US president and Israel’s prime minister will meet on Wednesday in Washington to discuss negotiations with Iran, according to Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. On Friday, Iranian and US officials met in Muscat, Oman, to hold indirect nuclear talks. The talks came amid a continued American naval build-up near Iran, which Donald Trump has described as

Police have caught a man juggling fire while riding a unicycle on a pedestrian crossing. Footage shows the unicyclist performing on the pedestrian crossing at the intersection between US-85 and East 60th Avenue in Commerce City, Colorado. The man, wearing a red hat, blue trousers and a colourful jacket, can be seen driving forwards and

Japanese politics is politer and more understated than most. It’s perhaps the reason that Western audiences do not always pay a huge amount of attention. But something feels different this time, and that’s largely down to the woman at the centre of this story; the drum-playing, Trump-hugging, China-provoking prime minister who has raised the stakes

A drone attack in Sudan has killed 24 people, including eight children, according to a doctors’ group. The Sudan Doctors Network said the strike was carried out by the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a vehicle carrying displaced families on Saturday. Among the dead were two infants, and several others were wounded. It