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A grab from video footage released by Costa Rica's justice ministry shows prison guards removing drugs taped to a cat

Crack-carrying cat

Costa Rica prison guards catch drug-smuggling purr-petrator

Rescuers in New South Wales were scrambling to reach residents left stranded on their roofs by fast-moving floodwaters

Ground saturated, rivers swollen

Flood victims stranded on roofs as downpours lash eastern Australia

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addressing the opening of the 78th World Health Assembly

Three years of negotiations

WHO adopts landmark pandemic agreement

Mahout Ali Baloch feeds balls of food laced with medicine to Malika, an elephant with tuberculosis, at the Karachi Safari Park

Tuberculosis treatment

Jumbo task: 400 pills a day for elephants with TB in Pakistan

In the UK, National Grid recruitment is at full power as its electricity network adapts for renewables

'Massive challenge'

High-flying young electricians wire UK energy switch

Owner of Mack's Fish Camp Marshall Jones walks through the drought-stricken Everglades National Park, in Pembroke Pines, Florida on May 16, 2025

Over 2,000 species affected

Severe drought strains wildlife and tourism in Florida's Everglades

Magdalena Martinez fears her home will be swallowed by a planned reservoir to feed the Panama Canal

Artificial lake

Villagers vow to fight new Panama Canal reservoir 'to the end'

Trump has repeatedly expressed opposition to wind energy, claiming turbines are unsightly and dangerous

Trump admin ends halt on New York offshore wind project

Hail storms and heavy rains struck southwestern France on Monday, causing floods and damage

Three dead as thunderstorms hit southeastern France

Education officials in Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province, said schools will close early for summer holidays because of a persistent heatwave

Summer vacations start 28 May

Heatwave forces early school closures in Pakistan's largest province

The Greenland ice sheet holds enough frozen water to lift global oceans by five metres.

Testing humanity's resiliance

Dire sea level rise likely even in a 1.5C world: study

Beijing during a 2023 heatwave, one of a series of extreme weather events endured by China in recent years

Across multiple cities

Record May heat scorches north, central China

Residents were rescued by boats from flooded areas of Bengaluru

One dead as rains choke India's tech capital

The majority of India's announced steel development plans involve higher-emissions blast furnace production, in a country whose steel industry is already the world's most carbon intensive

Doubling production by 2030

India steel plans threaten global emissions goals: report

Farmer Luke Abblitt inspects his crop of sugar beets on Daintree Farm in Cambridgeshire which he says are half the size they should be due to lack of rain

Soil parched, crops stunted

UK farmers pray for rain amid driest spring since 1852

Floral artist Ricky Paul looks at the Chelsea Punk, a mohican made from pampas grass

Innovation and adaptation

AI talking trees feature at Chelsea Flower Show

Slaves to fashion: A baby howler monkey holds a capuchin on Jicaron island, where stealing infants has been become a trend

For no apparent reason

Monkeys kidnap babies of another species in weird 'fad'

Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers each spring

World's fourth highest peak

Indian, Romanian climbers die on Nepal's Lhotse

Vet Rolf Arne Olberg checks if a polar bear is properly sedated

Endangered species

Polar bear biopsies to shed light on Arctic pollutants

A fisherman on Iraq's receding marshes that straddle the border with Iran

Protected Mesopotamian areas

'Leave our marshes alone': Iraqis fear oil drilling would destroy fabled wetlands

The storm destroyed hundreds of homes in London, Kentucky

Missouri, Kentucky, and Virginia

Severe storms, tornadoes kill more than 25 in south-central US

Medical cannabis has been a boon for the Berlin-based company whose website slogan says 'we love cannabis' and whose Frankfurt Stock Exchange ticker symbol is 'HIGH'

Amid partial legalisation

High times for German cannabis firm amid medical boom

Happier days: Marineland in 2013

'Emergency' situation

Worry for orcas in French marine park spikes after video

Sharks getting closer to the shoreline in Hadera, central Israel

Human-wildlife conflict

'Alpha predator' sharks and humans clash on an Israeli beach

A carer helps an elderly resident - one of three Alzheimer sufferers in the establishment- in a house at L'Hay-les- Roses on the outskirts of Paris

Potentially allowing earlier treatment

US approves first blood test for Alzheimer's

Grok's unprompted 'White Genocide' claims have stirred online controversy.

Mired in controversy

Musk's xAI blames 'unauthorized' tweak for 'white genocide' posts

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Thursday the move -- which retains Biden-era limits for just two of the most notorious PFAS compounds while rescinding them for four others -- was procedural and temporary in nature.

'Forever chemicals'

Trump admin leaves door open for tougher PFAS drinking water standards

Kabul faces a looming water crisis, driven by unruly and rapid urbanisation, mismanagement over years of conflict, and climate change

Urgent action needed

'Serious problem': Afghan capital losing race against water shortages

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