Katy Watson Australia correspondent Watch: How snakes and spiders are milked for venom With a pair of bright pink tweezers in hand, Emma Teni is delicately wrestling a large and leggy spider in a small plastic pot. “He’s posing,” the spider-keeper jests as it rears up on its back legs. It is exactly what she’s

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A Mexican woman has become the first person indicted under the U.S.’s new material support of terrorism charges, according

Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai BBC The museum contains artefacts and furniture from prominent Parsi families Tucked away in a lane in the southern end of India’s financial capital, Mumbai, is a museum dedicated to the followers of one of the world’s oldest religions, Zoroastrianism. The Framji Dadabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum documents the history and legacy

Abu Dhabi CNN  —  President Donald Trump flew back Friday from a whirlwind trip to the Middle East – investment deals in hand, a new bond with Syria forged, but still dogged by the familiar conflicts that have long hovered over the region. His four-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

Getty Images Moody’s warned in 2023 that the US’ triple-A rating was at risk The US has lost its last triple-A credit score from a major ratings firm after being downgraded by Moody’s, which cited growing federal debt over the past decade. In lowering the US rating to ‘Aa1’, Moody’s noted that successive US administrations

President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attend a bilateral meeting at the Saudi Royal Court on May 13 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images President Trump was greeted like royalty during his four-day trip to the Middle East. There were opulent palaces, fighter jet

Delegations met in Istanbul for the first direct negotiations in three years, including on a potential ceasefire and large-scale prisoner exchange. The UN acknowledged the important role of Türkiye and the United States in facilitating the talks, said Stephanie Tremblay, a spokesperson for the global body in New York. “We hope this process will lead

Igor Normann/Shutterstock There’s a brand of rye whiskey you can sip today with a history stretching so far back that, at the time of its birth, the United States had a mere 7.2 million people, James Madison was president, and Louisiana was about to become a state. 

ISTANBUL — Russian President Vladimir Putin had rebuffed President Volodymyr Zelensky, his European allies, and the U.S., and in response, Donald Trump simply went along with it, excusing his Russian counterpart for not attending the peace talks in Istanbul that Putin himself proposed. As the Russian and Ukrainian delegations emerged from the Istanbul palace on

The S&P 500 has rocketed higher in recent weeks but is still down year to date at the time of this writing. Trade tensions have eased somewhat, but there remains a great deal of macroeconomic uncertainty — not to mention the ongoing “stroke of the pen risk,” which refers to the dangers that companies can face

Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN  —  US President Donald Trump just finished a lavish tour of Gulf Arab states, where every one of the three energy-rich nations he visited had a long wish list from the American leader. While those nations reaped some big rewards from the trip, they fell short of others. Saudi Arabia, Qatar