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At least 19 people, including six women and five children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a local official has said.Suad Hammoud told the BBC that the dead included former school...

US actor Ron Ely, best known for playing the role of Tarzan in the 1960s television show of the same name, has died aged 86."The world has lost one of the greatest men it has ever known - and...

USGSIn the US, polar bears are classified as a threatened species; scientists say the biggest threat to their future is the continuing loss of sea ice habitat, which they depend on as a platform from which to pounce on...

Basillioh Rukanga / BBCShaped and coloured like the country’s rare gemstone, tanzanite, the sparkling new railway terminal in Dar es Salaam is a symbol of Tanzania’s transport ambitions.The glass panels gleam in the sun, like an outsize version of...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Western allies for the latest military aid worth billions of dollars.The $50 billion loan from Group of Seven (G7) leading Western industrialized nations will help Ukraine in its defence and resilience, he said in...

“Welcome to the Skookumchuck Narrows,” says Dylan Graves, in the latest edit on his always entertaining YouTube channel. “A tidal rapid that's well-known by tide enthusiasts and kayakers for its massive standing wave, and insane whirlpools.”The narrows, or “Skook”...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's economic activity grew 0.2% in August from July and fell less than expected from a year ago in the South American country's third straight month of year-on-year contraction, its official...

I ask if the crisis in Gaza makes him worry about the survival of international law. He points to the fact that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, defence...

Following a meeting with Jin Zhuanglong, Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Apple (AAPL, Financials) CEO Tim Cook promised further investment in China, according to a government WeChat statement. Cook underlined Apple's intentions to increase...

TORONTO (AP) — Some lawmakers in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's own Liberal Party asked the leader not to run for a fourth term Wednesday, handing him one of the biggest tests of his political career.Three Liberal members of Parliament...