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For over three weeks, Aladdin, Olfat and their 20-year-old daughter were surrounded by an endless barrage of bombs in Gaza. After being trapped there,...

A plane was forced to return to an airport shortly after taking off when a horse got loose on board. Around half an hour...

The puteketeke, a bird that vomits, grunts, growls and has bizarre mating rituals, won New Zealand’s bird of the century competition after comedian John Oliver...

Israel has launched an overnight raid on Gaza’s largest medical facility – al Shifa hospital – hours after the US backed claims it was...

There is a place in Lebanon called Alma al Shaab which clings to the sunburnt hills that rise up from the Mediterranean. The community...

The earthquake swarm in southwest Iceland has eased – but the threat of an eruption remains high. Most of the tremors in the last...

A 1962 Ferrari has sold for a record $51.7m (£42m) at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The striking red 330 LM/250 GTO model,...

A major air and land search is under way for a former Sydney radio presenter who went missing on a solo fishing trip in...

Gaza’s hospitals have been a flashpoint of fighting, claims and counterclaims. Tens of thousands of people sought shelter in medical facilities after being driven...

It has been a year since President Xi and President Biden last met, and it’s hard to overstate just what a rollercoaster US-China relations...

A huge operation is under way to rescue 40 construction workers trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel. The three-mile tunnel was being built...

Robert Jenrick has vowed the government will do “whatever it takes” to implement its Rwanda deportation plan – following Suella Braverman’s sacking as home...

Iceland is bracing for a volcanic eruption in the coming days after a series of earthquakes and evidence of hot magma flowing quickly underground....

Greta Thunberg was interrupted as she addressed a climate protest in Amsterdam on Sunday after inviting a Palestinian and an Afghan woman on stage....

A “courageous” teenager in the US was beaten to death when he confronted a mob over a friend who was being bullied, his family...

A former American football player has been killed in a car crash in Houston. D J Hayden, 33, was among six people who died...

Hamas has denied refusing an offer of fuel from Israel for Gaza’s biggest hospital, which the World Health Organisation says is “not functioning” due...

The chief surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross has given a harrowing account of an amputation his team performed at a...

Millions of people in India have celebrated Diwali, with residents in Uttar Pradesh setting a Guinness World Record for the mass lighting of oil...