Weeks after Assad’s fall, Syrians gathered in Douma to demand justice for Razan Zaitouneh and three colleagues, abducted in 2013 and never seen since — one of the revolution’s defining mysteries.

Nearly a month’s rain fell in two days across North West England, breaching a canal, cutting power to thousands and sending rescue boats into a flooded Didsbury hotel on New Year’s Day.

TCU has hired Mike Buddie away from Army West Point as its ninth athletic director, betting on a fundraiser and former major-league pitcher to steer the Horned Frogs through college sports’ upheaval.

Airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 12 people on the first day of 2025, most of them women and children, Palestinian officials said, while Israel warned Hamas of blows “not seen in Gaza for a long time.”