In an unprecedented step, European nations said they would boycott the World Cup unless FIFA reverses a controversial deal to sell minority stakes to the marquee soccer tournament.

Climate change's fingerprints are all over the extreme fire weather that sparked this week's devastating wildfires in Spain and France and has spiked Southern Europe's burning the past eight years, two new studies conclude.

Anthropic's artificial intelligence model Claude "gained unauthorized access" to three outside organizations on three separate occasions during testing.

Overnight, the U.S. military said it struck Iran's Revolutionary Guards' military command centers, drone facilities after Tehran fired at U.S. forces.

Escalating Russian strikes have renewed concerns that airspace violations could lead to confrontations with NATO members.

The U.S. and Iran each fired barrages of missiles Thursday, as the pattern of back-and-forth strikes took hold again and hope dimmed for any quick resolution.

The blast was apparently triggered by a buildup of methane gas and occurred on the outskirts of the Baluchistan provincial capital of Quetta, officials said.

China's President Xi Jinping ​on Friday urged efforts ‌to deepen the fight against corruption in ​the military ​to advance the modernisation of ⁠the national ​defence, state news agency ​Xinhua news agency reported.