The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.
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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.
Hamas returns two more bodies but says it cannot retrieve remaining dead hostages
The group’s armed wing says it has returned all the bodies of hostages it can reach in the ruins of Gaza.
What happens next in Trump’s ceasefire plan?
All living Israeli hostages have returned home and a ceasefire is in place. What happens next in Gaza
The Indian woman who stood up to moral policing – and won a pageant
Muskan Sharma, who won the Miss Rishikesh contest, said it made her feel like Miss Universe.
Spain’s radically different approach to African migration
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government is kicking against the prevailing mood among Western nations.
‘He transformed R&B forever’ – Stars pay tribute to D’Angelo, after his death at 51
The Grammy-winning singer, who died of cancer, “transformed R&B forever”, says Beyoncé.
Row over bringing back military service splits German government
Plans to re-introduce military service have been thrown into chaos because of an 11th hour disagreement.
Gaza experts work to identify bodies of 90 Palestinians returned by Israel
Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has agreed to hand over the bodies of 15 Palestinians in return for every dead Israeli hostage.