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A vehicle drove into a large crowd of revellers in the historic French Quarter district of New Orleans early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 30, according to city authorities. New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the New Year’s Day mass casualty incident was a “terrorist attack”. Check out our…

A rare Russian aerial attack on the heart of the Ukrainian capital early on Wednesday killed two people, injured at least six and damaged a residential building in Kyiv. The strikes came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a New Year’s Day message, vowed that “no cruise missile” could…

Multiple casualties are feared in New Orleans after a vehicle reportedly drove into a crowd on the popular Bourbon Street, the BBC’s US news partner CBS has reported. A New Orleans Police spokesman said that “initial reports show a car may have ploughed into a group of people. Injuries are…

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have filed competing lawsuits that ramp up a battle over allegations of what happened on the set of their film, It Ends With Us. Lively filed a lawsuit in New York against the actor and his publicity team on Tuesday, alleging sexual harassment on the…

BBC Jamal’s parents were killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this year They are smiling now as they play together in the sand at al-Mawasi tent camp in southern Gaza, but the children of the Masri family have survived horrific events. “Their lives were in danger, they were exposed…

Investigators have finished extracting data from one of the black boxes from the fated Jeju Air plane that crashed on Sunday, South Korea’s transport ministry has said. The data from the cockpit voice recorder will now be converted into an audio file, though authorities said it would take more time…

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has sparked speculation after changing his name on his social media platform X to “Kekius Maximus”. The tech mogul – and close confidant of US President-Elect Donald Trump – offered no immediate explanation for the name or his new profile image which depicts the…

Getty Images Anura Kumara Dissanayake wants the new year to be a turning point for the country Stunning election wins by a new left-leaning president and his party have changed Sri Lanka’s political landscape – but the cash-strapped island’s new rulers are quickly realising that campaign promises are easier to…

Getty Images From busy freeways to classic-car street racing, Los Angeles has long been considered the capital of American car culture. Can it change in time for the Olympics? With nearly year-round sunny skies, some say LA is the ideal place for cycling. “It is the perfect community for runners…

BBC This has been one of the most eventful years since I began covering global security for the BBC in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks in 2001. The sudden toppling of Syria’s President Assad, North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia. British and US missiles sent to Ukraine and…