French singer and actor Patrick Bruel has denied multiple allegations of sexual assault and stated that he will continue his professional activities despite ongoing investigations in France and Belgium.

A 59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth discovered in a Siberian cave shows evidence of deliberate drilling to treat a deep cavity, suggesting that early forms of dentistry existed far earlier than previously believed. Researchers say the find pushes back the earliest known evidence of dental treatment by around 45,000 years.

Malaysia’s maritime agency has launched a search and rescue operation for 14 people missing after a boat believed to be carrying undocumented Indonesian migrants sank off the country’s western coast on Monday.

A woman who lied about her home address to enrol her daughter in a primary school lost her appeal to the High Court on April 22 against her one-week jail term.

In recent years, amid deepening instability in the international system, intensified rivalry among major powers, and regional confrontations, domestic security has become one of the top priorities for states. In this environment, attempts at foreign influence are no longer limited to overt political and diplomatic pressure but are increasingly carried out through domestic political actors, financial mechanisms, and covert networks. The investigation conducted in Azerbaijan into criminal acts directed against state authority can be viewed as a concrete manifestation of this new threat model.

The FBI has fired four agents who served on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team investigating President Donald Trump — only to reverse some of those decisions shortly afterward, according to five people familiar with the matter.