Crowds celebrated in the streets of the capital Antananarivo after an elite army unit said it had seized power from the president.
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Watch: Moment house drifts away from land as typhoon hits Alaska
The US Coast Guard rescued two dozen people after their homes floated away from shore during the storm.
Watch: Freed detainee finds family alive after thinking they had been killed
Shadi Abu Sido told the BBC an Israeli prison officer said his family had been killed.
Foul skies, fading light: How air pollution is stealing India’s sunshine
India’s sunshine hours have fallen over the past 30 years due to clouds, aerosols and local weather.
Trump says he authorised CIA in Venezuela as Maduro says ‘no to regime change’
Trump would not be drawn on whether the CIA was seeking to topple Maduro.
Syria’s Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow for first time since fall of Assad
Syria’s leader suggested he would continue to allow Russia access to its military bases in Syria.
War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city
Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.
Cracked windscreen forces US defence secretary’s plane to land in UK
The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.
Ukraine imposes blackouts in most regions after Russian power grid attacks
This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
‘Worse than starting from scratch’: how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza
BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.