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Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving back to the United Kingdom more than six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and shifted base to the United States, British press reported late Wednesday. According to The Telegraph, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to go to the UK within weeks and settle in a private, non-royal house reportedly outside London. Several news agencies later confirmed the reports. The couple's children Prince Archie (7) and Princess Lilibet (5) have already enrolled in a British school and will begin classes from September, the BBC and several other news outlets said in their reports., There is yet to be an official statement from Harry or Buckingham Palace, which historically refrains from commenting on speculation about non-working...

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States in the next 12 months, the government said this week.  It said that the first group of 20 were expected to arrive on Thursday.  Donald Trump's administration has recently struck several deals with African countries to take in people it cannot legally send back to their home countries — typically because of US court orders ruling that doing so would put them in danger.  More African countries accept US deporteesTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What did Liberia say about the agreement? "Liberia intends to accept up to 1,200 persons to be transferred from the United States of America within a year," the Liberian government s...

Meta intentionally hooked and exploited children, a US federal court heard Tuesday as a landmark trial seeking to hold Meta accountable for the alleged harm its social media platforms cause children began in California. Four US states, California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey, argue the company misled the public about the safety of Instagram and Facebook and deliberately made the apps addictive for minors. Lawyers for the states also allege Meta is violating privacy laws by routinely collecting data on children under 13 without their parents' consent. The states are seeking around $200 billion (€173 billion) in damages as well as significant changes to Meta's core platforms. They are part of a coalition of 29 states that sued the tech giant in 2023 for allegedly building addictive...

The share of women in Afghanistan's labor market has falled to around one worker in 20 in the five years since the Taliban returned to power, according to a report published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on Tuesday.  "Afghanistan is estimated to have the second lowest female labor force participation rate worldwide, at only 5.1% in 2026, against the backdrop of severe restrictions in women's access to education and employment," the ILO wrote. It called for urgent steps to counter women's "severe exclusion," also saying this was essential to buttress the Afghan economy's resilience more generally.  The Taliban rapidly returned to power in August 2021 amid a pullout by the US and other NATO forces, ending a 20-year period when women enjoyed comparatively improved economic...

Belgian firefighters were pushing to encircle and contain the country's largest wildfire in a century. Rain and cooler temperatures provided some natural relief against the blaze on Tuesday but also teamed up with winds to hamper air support and waterbombing operations. The fire expanded to cover an area of around 3,000 hectares — about half the size of Manhattan in New York — by Monday. The High Fens, or Hautes Fagnes, nature reserve is a vast expanse of boggy peatlands, pine forests and hiking trails, with parts of it difficult to access with large machinery, except from above.  Light rain fell on Tuesday morning, with heavier precipitation forecast later — this both helped to douse the fire nautrally but also hampered efforts to use planes and helicopters to drop water en masse from...

A landmark trial seeking to hold Meta accountable for the alleged harm its social media platforms cause children is set to begin in California on Tuesday. Four US states, California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey, argue the company misled the public about the safety of Instagram and Facebook and deliberately made the apps addictive for minors. Lawyers for the states also allege Meta is violating privacy laws by routinely collecting data on children under 13 without their parents' consent. The states are seeking around $200 billion (€173 billion) in damages as well as significant changes to Meta's core platforms. They are part of a coalition of 29 states that sued the tech giant in 2023 for allegedly building addictive features into its apps.The trial is taking place at the federal ...

Ukraine and Russia trade more attacks overnight, with the Kharkiv regional governor reporting 10 dead civilians not far from the Russian border and the Moscow mayor saying Ukraine launched some 620 drones toward the region.  This follows one of the largest Ukrainian attacks on Russia during the war over the weekend, and the UN warning that amplified Russian strikes on towns and cities in July meant that civilian deaths in the conflict rose to levels not seen since May 2022 and the earliest months of combat. The drone attacks on the Moscow area again caused minor damage at a facility belonging to Russian online retail giant Wildberries, a frequent target for Ukrainian forces of late.  Rescuers responded to the Tuesday morning missile strike near Ukraine's northeastern border to RussiaIma...

The murder trial over Tupac Shakur's 1996 killing opened with prosecutors arguing that Duane "Keffe D" Davis planned the shooting. Almost three decades after the drive-by shooting they opened their case by telling jurors the rapper was shot dead in an act of gang revenge masterminded by a mobster. “Let’s be clear, Duane Davis did not pull the trigger. But he did plan the shooting in retaliation of the beating of his nephew,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal said. Davis, a one-time leader of the South Side Compton Crips gang, is charged in Clark County, Nevada, with a single count of murder using a deadly weapon. The 63-year-old has pleaded not guilty. What the prosecution said about 'shot caller' Davis Davis ordered the killing after his nephew, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson,...