Former Prime Minister of Norway and ex-Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. The politician allegedly took such a step because of references to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the case, iNyheter reports . Norwegian police have charged Jagland with corruption. The investigation believes that the politician, holding high government positions, used connections with the American financier Epstein for personal gain.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appointed his teenage daughter to a senior position in the Missile Administration. The department oversees North Korea's nuclear forces, reports the South Korean publication The Chosun Daily. The publication refers to a high-ranking government official who has intelligence data. The girl's name is believed to be Kim Joo Ae and she is currently 13 years old.

Laurence de Car has served as director of the Louvre since 2021. However, after the main museum in France was robbed in the fall of 2025, she decided to resign from her position. French President Emmanuel Macron accepted his resignation, the press service of the Elysee Palace reports .

Thai authorities are investigating the details of the death of 72 tigers. The animals died in the city of Chiang Mai, located in the north of the country, the BBC reports . The tigers died at private parks Tiger Kingdom Mae Taeng and Tiger Kingdom Mae Rim, where visitors were allowed to touch the animals. Thus, from February 8 to February 19, 51 tigers died in the first park, and 21 in the second.

Russian citizens are among the top five foreign brides in Turkey, according to data from the country's Bureau of Statistics for 2025. Thus, last year, 28.6 thousand foreign women married Turkish citizens, which amounted to 5.2% of the total number of women married in the country. Russians are in fifth place in terms of the number of brides. In 2025, 1,630 women from Russia married Turkish citizens - this is 5.7% of the total number of marriages with foreigners.

European leaders were urged to prepare for new threats from Russia. The Kremlin may expand its aggressive energy policy beyond Ukraine in an attempt to destabilize NATO, Semafor Exclusive reports . The publication refers to a report by former CIA analyst and now senior threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future Chelsea Sederbaum. The document says that Vladimir Putin was disappointed with how slowly the Russian army was advancing across Ukraine.

Mounting Russian military losses could limit the Kremlin's ability to launch a major offensive in Ukraine in the coming months. Bloomberg reports this with reference to Western officials. In the last three months, Russia's combat losses exceed the number of contract soldiers recruited, the agency's interlocutors said on condition of anonymity. Moscow manages to attract from 30 to 35 thousand people every month, but these figures do not cover the loss of personnel.

The UK authorities are moving to a new type of tourist and visitor visas. Instead of paper visas, guests of the country and people flying through British airports in transit will be issued visas in electronic format, according to the website of the country's visa center. “From February 25, 2026, you may not receive a vignette (visa sticker in your passport). This is because e-visas (a digital record of your identity and immigration status) replace vignettes.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Dmitry Popkov to 12 years in a maximum security colony, the press service of the city courts reported . They said that the defendant was found guilty of committing sexual assault against a child under 14 years of age. The court found that in 2024, a drunken Popkov tied the boy to a chair, gave him alcohol, waited until he fell asleep, and then committed “other acts of a sexual nature” against him.

The founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov said that Russian authorities suspect him of facilitating terrorist activities. The corresponding criminal case against Durov was reported by Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Komsomolskaya Pravda, based on materials from the FSB. “Russia opened a criminal case against me for “aiding terrorism.” Every day, authorities come up with new excuses to restrict Russians' access to Telegram, seeking to suppress the rights to privacy and freedom of speech.

Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Omar Yaghi has developed a technology for producing water from air. It could be a lifesaver for island nations in the event of hurricanes and droughts, a scientist told The Guardian. The invention is based on reticular chemistry, a method of creating molecularly engineered materials that can extract moisture from the air even in arid and desert conditions. The technology is being developed by Atoco, a company founded by Yagi.

In the Altai Territory, a 40-year-old local resident was detained on suspicion of murdering his father. According to the Investigative Committee, the suspect hacked him to death with an ax for refusing to take the blame for a fatal car collision with a woman. According to preliminary data, this morning, February 24, the suspect was driving his own car when he ran over a 63-year-old woman on one of the streets in the village of Kulunda.

Moscow's income from energy exports has declined, despite an increase in oil supplies. This was reported by Reuters with reference to analyst data. According to the non-profit Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), for the 12 months ending February 24, 2026, Russia received 193 billion euros from the export of oil, gas, coal and petroleum products. This is 27% less than the comparable period before the outbreak of hostilities.

Members of the Big Data Association (BDA), which includes Sberbank, Yandex and Gazprombank, appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to allow companies to buy individual information from departmental databases. We are talking about data about suspects and accused in criminal and administrative cases, information about the search, registration and legal capacity of citizens, writes Kommersant.

In Nyandoma, Arkhangelsk region, a 17-year-old teenager, whose name has not been released, was suspected of murdering a 51-year-old mother, the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported . According to the department, on February 22 of this year, the teenager stabbed his sleeping mother “on the basis of personal hostility.” He hid the woman's body in the cellar, after which he fled the crime scene.