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The ice cores were drilled from 2.8km down in the Antarctic ice sheet, and they arrived at the British Antarctic Survey at the start of the summer.Over the last few weeks, a team has been working round the clock...

At least two people have been killed in Morocco after police opened fire to prevent protesters from storming a police station in Lqliaa, near the coastal city of Agadir, state media says.These are the first deaths reported...

London — The Greater Manchester Police said at least four members of the public were wounded and a suspect shot outside a synagogue on Thursday in what appeared to be a vehicle and stabbing attack....

The BBC understands that mediators have made contact with the head of Hamas's military wing in Gaza, who indicated he does not agree to new US ceasefire plan.Izz al-Din al-Haddad is thought to believe the plan was designed to...

Analysts expect this shutdown to happen on a larger scale than the last one in 2018, when Congress had passed some funding bills. They expect roughly 40% of federal workers - around 750,000 people - to be put on...

Olga Robinson & Matt MurphyBBC Verify andYaroslava KiryukhinaBBC RussianBBCUkraine has dramatically increased the number of attacks launched against Russian oil refineries in recent months, sparking fuel shortages and price rises in some parts of the...

Two Kenyan human rights activists have gone missing in Uganda after reportedly being abducted by armed men while attending opposition leader Bobi Wine's campaign event.Bobi Wine strongly condemned the "abduction" of Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, saying the pair...

There are "no signs of life" under the wreckage of a collapsed Indonesian school where 59 people are still missing, rescuers have said.Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, were inside the two-storey Islamic boarding school in the...

Andrew HardingReporting from Rouvroy, northern FranceBBCFirst came an email. Then, a month later, a baby.Each arrival, in its own way, marked a sharp swerve in the fortunes of a grief-bludgeoned Iraqi family that has spent the past 15 years...

Rob CameronPrague Correspondent, PragueReuters"I certainly feel we should invest in our security," the student said."It's not just about housing, it's not just about the economy, it's not just about the EU - all of these things have to come...