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Air quality in India’s capital Delhi has deteriorated to severe and extremely poor levels in the past few days, data shows.Pollution levels crossed 25-30 times the World Health Organization (WHO)’s recommended safe

Authorities in India are evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the path of an approaching cyclone in the eastern states of Odisha (formerly Orissa) and West Bengal. Thousands of relief workers have

A young woman spent hours trapped upside down after slipping between two boulders as she tried to retrieve her mobile phone during a hike in Australia. The woman – named in reports as

At least seven people have died after part of a ferry dock collapsed in Georgia’s Sapelo Island on Saturday, local authorities say. Georgia’s department of natural resources, which operates the dock, said

At least seven people have died after part of a ferry dock collapsed in Georgia’s Sapelo Island on Saturday, local authorities say. Georgia’s department of natural resources, which operates the dock, said

A court in Moscow has sentenced a French researcher to three years in a penal colony for breaking Russia’s controversial law on registering as a “foreign agent”. Laurent Vinatier, who worked for

At least 21 people have been killed and eight others injured in a rare Israeli air strike in northern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry says. The strike hit a residential building in

On a Tuesday morning in September, a 10-year-old boy was approaching the gates of a Japanese school in Shenzhen in southern China, when a stranger walked up and stabbed him. He died

A Spanish couple on their honeymoon in Singapore have been detained after protesting against the Singaporean owner of the football club they support. Dani Cuesta posted photographs of himself outside the home

‘It’s too late for us to leave’ Steve Paris, from Tampa, says he’s chosen to stay at home ahead of Hurricane Milton’s arrival, as he believes it’s “now too late” to leave.

“If these fires continue, we indigenous people will die.”Raimundinha Rodrigues Da Sousa runs the voluntary fire service for the Caititu indigenous community in the Brazilian Amazon.Their land is supposed to be protected