The dire condition of the Earth's coral reefs means the planet has now reached its first tipping point from human-caused climate change, report finds.

FRANCE You’ll really want to lick these stamps. Life is butter in France, whose postal service, La Poste, introduced nearly 600,000 stamps that smell like butter croissants in celebration of the “emblem of French gastronomy.

The world's top central bankers and finance ministers have descended to Washington DC for the semi-annual World Bank meetings. Among the issues to be discussed are global trade in the era of President Donald Trump's tariffs, and economic growth. The BBC's Michelle Fleury looks at what to expect from the gathering.

The remaining 20 living Israeli hostages were handed over by Hamas, as nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees were freed by Israel. Israeli troops began pulling back from some parts of Gaza on Friday and Palestinians returned under a ceasefire deal with Hamas.

In a video released Oct. 13, Pope Leo XIV said World Mission Day is an opportunity for the entire Catholic Church to unite in prayer for missionaries.

A 47-year-old Chinese national has pleaded guilty in Britain to a multi-billion-dollar Bitcoin scheme, according to Metropolitan Police, which said it has made what is possibly the "world's largest" crypto seizure.

Finance chiefs gathering in Washington this week were ready to discuss the global economy's surprising resilience in the face of Donald Trump's tariff assaults - until U.S.-China trade war rhetoric reignited with the U.