Israel has carried out massive air strikes on central Beirut, Lebanese media say, and there are reports of several deaths. An eight-storey residential building was completely destroyed with five missiles in the capital’s Basta district, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA). Hezbollah’s al-Manar media outlet quoted the Lebanese health ministry as saying four people…
An atmospheric river swept through Northern California, dumping record rain and deep snow in the region. In Santa Rosa, the rainfall shattered a three-day record of about 10 inches set in October 2021. The weather event occurs when water evaporates into the air and is carried along by the wind. It followed a bomb cyclone…
BBC Republican President-elect Donald Trump has said his election victory handed him an “unprecedented and powerful” mandate to govern. He beat Democratic rival Kamala Harris in all seven closely watched swing states, giving him a decisive advantage overall. Trump’s party has also won both chambers of Congress, giving the returning president considerable power to enact…
A selection of striking news photographs taken around the world this week. ANTON BRINK/EPA-EFE Lava flows across one of the roads near Grindavik on the Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. The Icelandic Meteorological Office said a new fissure erupted in the area on 21 November, spewing hot lava into the air. Lia Toby/Getty Images Actor Jeff Goldblum…
Getty Images Kristi Noem (L), Elon Musk (C) and Susie Wiles (R) are all lined up for positions The new team entrusted with delivering Donald Trump’s agenda is taking shape, with several contentious hires in his proposed administration. Ahead of his return to the White House on 20 January 2025, the president-elect has named Pete…
Anthony Irungu / BBC The mourners at a cemetery in crisis-hit Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, were strikingly young – children shedding tears as they bade farewell to a 16-year-old friend, who was shot dead while banging pots and pans in an opposition-organised protest against the outcome of last month’s presidential election. “Antonio was shot in the…
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins University who’s made controversial claims about Covid, as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Makary is the chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins, according to the university’s website. He also served in leadership at the World Health Organization…
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Russell Vought speaks with reporters during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, March 11, 2019 Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as a platform policy director for the Republican National Committee, as his pick to…
Innovation for Change The fashion show was put together by children who live in a slum in Lucknow A video of a fashion shoot in India has gone viral and unexpectedly turned a group of underprivileged school children into local celebrities. The footage shows the children, most of them girls between the ages of 12…
Xiqing Wang/ BBC Sinkholes in China’s Guangxi province have become a tourist attraction The couple stands on the edge of the sheer limestone cliff. More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. All they can see is leafy tree tops and hear is the echoes of…
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