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Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9,521 meters, or 31,237 feet, his team announced Wednesday.The SolarStratos plane made the landmark...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday, a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska."Yesterday, together with all partners, today in a bilateral format, we discussed expectations...

Israel's far-right finance minister announced approval Thursday of the construction of a contentious settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that Palestinians and rights groups worry would scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively...

Anthony Zurcher and Steve RosenbergBBC News in AlaskaGetty ImagesThis week, Trump has made a concerted effort to lower the expectations for this meeting - perhaps a tacit acknowledgement of the limited possibilities of a breakthrough with only one party...

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said he will approve plans to build more than 3,000 homes in a controversial settlement project in the occupied West Bank - a move he said will prevent the creation of a...

EU data shows that roughly 439,000 hectares of land have burnt since the beginning of the year due to wildfires, compared to 187,643 hectares (464,000 acres) last year.A total of 1,628 fires have been detected since the start of...

The FBI has returned a 500-year-old stolen document signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to Mexico.The manuscript page was penned in 1527 and is one of 15 pages thought to have been swiped from Mexico's national archives between 1985...

CCTV captured the moment a car was hit by a Ukrainian drone in the Russian city of Belgorod, governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in his official Telegram channel.The governor said three people have been injured in the Thursday strike.Video showed...

Kate WhannelPolitical reporterBBCFollowing the call with European leaders, Trump told a press conference there was a chance of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky.He said he would use his initial meeting with Putin to "find out where we are...