South Korea's soccer player Son Heung-min returned home to a rousing welcome after the Tottenham Hotspur forward ended the season as the Premier League's joint top scorer with Mohamed Salah
K-pop boy band
@TXT_bighit
describe their latest EP as a teen account of how the lockdown shattered their world, and they hope it resonates with young people everywhere
Authorities in Canada uncovered the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, at the site of a former residential school for indigenous students
Following a record-breaking 2019, K-Pop band
@BTS_twt
reached new heights with their first English-language song ‘Dynamite’ on the U.S. Billboard charts. But they wish they could celebrate with their fans
Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion arrived in Madrid with the help of a group of Spanish taxi drivers who volunteered for a 40-hour trip to Poland and back to support the mass evacuation
Exclusive: Tesla is considering exporting China-made electric cars to the U.S., a reversal that would reflect the automaker's deepening cost advantage at its Shanghai plant and slower demand from Chinese consumers
U.S. Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into the Trump campaign's use of the White House for campaign-related activities to see if federal law has been violated. More
#Election2020
updates:
Exclusive: Aspartame, one of the world's most common artificial sweeteners, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, pitting it against the food industry and regulators
The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand
South Korean boy band
@bts_bighit
say they hope their new digital single
#DynamiteBTS
refreshes fans and helps them recharge their batteries as they cope with the novel coronavirus pandemic
A young Syrian boy smiled and started to play with rescue workers who pulled him from the rubble of a building that was destroyed following deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
South Korean supergroup
@BTS_twt
, a fundraising juggernaut for social justice causes in the United States, visited the White House to discuss hate crimes targeting Asians
#BTSatTheWhiteHouse
Barcelona’s Liceu opera reopened its doors for the first time in more than three months to hold a concert - exclusively for a quiet, leafy audience of nearly 2,300 house plants
New Zealand Maori leader Rawiri Waititi ejected from parliament for not wearing a necktie said that enforcing a Western dress code was an attempt to suppress indigenous culture
The Supreme Court paved the way for a New York City prosecutor to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns and other financial records as part of a criminal investigation, a blow to his quest to conceal details of his finances
‘I have asked 27 European leaders whether Ukraine will be in NATO .... Everyone is afraid, no one answers,’ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a late night speech
Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, talks about the events following the death of George Floyd in a video she recorded for students graduating from her old high school in Los Angeles
Kyiv resident Mark Goncharuk, fleeing with others in a van toward the Ukrainian border, fights back tears as he talks about how his father stayed behind to help support the fight against the Russians
How the fanbase of the South Korean band BTS – known as ARMY – raised over $1 million for the Black Lives Matter movement, mostly in just one day by
@AditiHBhandari
via
@ReutersGraphics
K-pop band
@BTS_twt
is offering up its outfits from the music video for hit single ‘Dynamite’ to the highest bidder in a Beverly Hills charity auction in January
K-pop star Jungkook was named the global brand ambassador for US fashion label Calvin Klein. The new campaign video featured the BTS singer wearing the brand’s signature denim jeans and jacket
Exclusive: English football club Manchester United is negotiating granting exclusivity to the consortium led by Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani in the talks to sell itself for more than $6 billion, people familiar with the matter said 1/3
Millions of Turks are tuning in to watch Sedat Peker, a convicted Turkish mob boss who has been posting videos on social media in which he makes uncorroborated claims of corruption, murder and drug running against top politicians
K-Pop sensation BTS is making their debut at a celebrity auction. Up for grabs are seven signed microphones from each member of the band that they used on tour
Big Hit Entertainment, the management label of hugely popular South Korean K-Pop group
@bts_bighit
, saw a 27% jump in half-year profits as its online concert and merchandise sales offset event cancellations during the year
When a local rescue team found university student Kerem Cetin under rubble in Turkey's Hatay, the earthquake victim immediately asked them to save his cat before pulling him out
Elon Musk, Twitter's new owner, urged Americans to elect a Republican Congress in U.S. midterms to counterbalance President Joe Biden's Democrats, the first time a major social media CEO explicitly took a side
The moment dozens of diplomats from the European Union and United States walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the annual U.N. Human Rights Council session, nearly a week since Moscow unleashed its war on Ukraine
Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook. The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded
German prosecutors have confiscated more than $60 million worth of
#bitcoin
from a fraudster. There’s only one problem: they can’t unlock the money because he won’t give them the password.
@johnodonnell21
reports 1/4
More than 100,000 farmers and farm workers gathered in India’s northern Punjab state in a show of strength against new agricultural laws that seek to deregulate the country's vast farm sector
As the nationwide lockdown in Italy enters its second week due to the
#coronavirus
outbreak, Venice's canals appear to be crystal clear. Follow for live updates:
🐱 The Biden family finally has a cat.
First lady Jill Biden's office has announced America's first family is excited to welcome a two-year-old, gray-and-white-striped feline named Willow to the White House 1/4
Trucks rolled into Canada's capital Ottawa to stage a massive protest against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccine mandates in front of parliament
A fire on Chile's Easter Island has caused irreparable damage to its iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues. The blaze swept through Rapa Nui National Park earlier this week, causing several stones to crack, Mayor Pedro Edmunds told
@Reuters
Exclusive: A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil suggests exposure to dengue fever may provide some level of immunity against COVID-19
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced the senators who made Donald Trump's acquittal possible as a ‘cowardly group of Republicans’ and blamed McConnell for not allowing the House to deliver the impeachment charge to the Senate while Trump was still in the White House
A wild and ailing sheep found in a forest in Australia, named Baarack by rescuers, has yielded a fleece weighing more than 35 kilograms - nearly half the weight of an adult kangaroo - after being shorn for the first time in years
🏈 Eminem ended his hit 'Lose Yourself' by kneeling and placing his head in his hand, a gesture that former quarterback Colin Kaepernick made during the National Anthem at NFL games as a call for racial justice
#SuperBowl