At least 146 people are now known to have died in the devastating fire that tore through high-rise buildings in Hong Kong on Wednesday 26th November 2025.

Police announced the new death toll cautioning that they "cannot rule out the possibility of further fatalities". There are still 150 people missing, and the blaze left 79 injured.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi.

The Paris criminal court acquitted him of all other charges, including passive corruption and illegal campaign financing.

The former President of Malawi, Peter Mutharika, the 85-year-old has been declared the winner of last week's elections.

This is a dramatic comeback having lost to Lazarus Chakwera in 2020 after a hotly contested 2019 Presidential Election.

The National Aeronautical Space Administration-NASA has said it hopes to send astronauts on a ten-day trip around the Moon as soon as February 2026.

The US space agency had previously committed to launching no later than the end of April but said it aims to bring the mission forward.