Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

From a fitness-obsessed bear to a rather rude orangutan, here are 10 of the most amusing photos of the animal kingdom this year.

Operation Vivaldi, Even More Robots; The Trump-Putin Quid Pro Quo

Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.

Digitale autonomie: Een groot deel van de administratie van het internet wordt gedaan door Amerikaanse stichtingen en bedrijven. Die vallen onder Amerikaanse wetten en sancties. Kan de Trump-regering een landendomein als .nl, en daarmee de websites van Nederlandse overheden en banken, plots onvindbaar maken?

World heritage monuments in Córdoba and Istanbul stand at the centre of a reductionist bid to rewrite the past

Her appointment by the king makes her only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world.

Journalistiek: Folkert Jensma houdt eigenlijk niet van demonstreren. Maar nu technologiereuzen ongestraft de vruchten van de journalistiek in de blender van hun AI-modellen gooien, en zo bijdragen aan de teloorgang van de democratie, moet hij wel.

Parastoo Ahmadi was convicted of "offending public decency" after singing while wearing a sleeveless dress during a livestreamed concert.

On 29 September 1947, the "biggest murder trial in history" began. Seventy years on, the chief prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, told the BBC how he fought to bring 22 killers to justice.

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De Afghaanse wielrenster Fariba Hashimi heeft dinsdag een zilveren medaille veroverd bij de wegwedstrijd voor vrouwen op de Aziatische Spelen. De atlete moest zich jaren als man vermommen om te kunnen...

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After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea...

How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise

The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.

Our White House and national security correspondent, David Sanger, compares past “forever wars” that President Trump campaigned against with an Iran War that has no clear endgame.