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Smoke from a wildfire hangs over houses in the area of the German town of Monschau, at the Belgian border

30 residents evacuated

'Never seen one like it': German pensioners flee wildfire

US President Donald Trump's comments came ahead of the annual 'Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercise in South Korea, which is aimed at deterring North Korea

'We'll bomb the sh*t out of them'

Trump threatens Oman: latest developments in US-Iran war

Eurostar said the problem was with an overhead power supply line in the Channel Tunnel

New cross-Channel services

Virgin moves closer to launching Eurostar rival in 2030

Defending champion Shi Yuqi of China fell to a first-round defeat to rising India star Ayush Shetty at the world badminton championships in New Delhi

Number one Shi suffers shock first-round exit at badminton worlds

De Bëschbrand am Hürtgenwald an der Äifel ass Kilometerwäit ze gesinn.

Eifel fires spread

Smoke and fire smell reported near Luxembourg border

The blaze charring the High Fens nature reserve has grown since Friday to 3,000 hectares (7,500 acres), with Saturday seeing the worst of the flames

Belgium fire halts short of German border, but not 'contained'

Members of a humanitarian NGO work to clear landmines and other explosive devices prepare to detonate unexploded war-remnants in a suburb of Damascus, Syria

UN laments 'unacceptable' toll of 350 aid workers killed in 2025

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) and US President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019

'Inappropriate and hostile'

Trump says US scaling back military drills with Seoul hours before start

US actress Hayden Panettiere, who starred in popular series 'Heroes' and 'Nashville,' died at the age of 36

'Heroes' and 'Nashville' star

Former child star actress Hayden Panettiere dead at 36

Acting US Navy Secretary Hung Cao said the contract will 'accelerate Tomahawk missile delivery' to US warfighters

Pentagon inks Tomahawk deal amid reports of missile shortfall

Sri Lanka's Sonal Dinusha (R) watches the ball after playing a shot during the third day of the first Test

Rain halts India push after Dinusha century lifts Sri Lanka

22 Tonne Melounen hat den accidentéierte Camion gelueden

Lower Saxony, Germany

Drunk lorry driver loses 22 tonnes of melons in crash

Nearly 13,000 residents of Indonesia's Flores island have been displaced

Nearly 13,000 displaced

'Nowhere to run': Indonesian quake survivors plead for help

Taiwan's government will propose record defence spending for 2027, President Lai Ching-te said, as the island democracy faces growing military pressure from China

Amid rising tensions

Taiwan's leader says government to propose record defence spending for 2027

The 7.7-magnitude quake killed 53 people and injured more than a hundred on Flores island

Awaiting much-needed aid

Nearly 13,000 displaced by deadly Indonesian quake await aid

Several people left flowers and a card bearing Arday's name on university gates in Cambridge city centre

Cambridge head slams 'feeding frenzy' over dead academic

The latest toll from the DRC's Ebola outbreak records 2,325 deaths from 4,945 confirmed cases

Killing more than 2,300 people

Ebola outbreak now DR Congo's deadliest ever

The Rhine has fallen to record low levels, as can be seen from the Pfalzgrafenstein Castle's exposed position

Sparked pushback

Germany's coalition split over putting climate in constitution

Ëmmer méi Jonker hunn an Däitschland weder Aarbecht, nach Ausbildung

More young Germans are out of work and training

Bangladesh bowler Mehidy Hasan Miraz celebrates dismissing Australia's Beau Webster

Stunning victory

Bangladesh Test cricket reboot delivers in style with historic win

Ukraine's Polina Buhrova in action in August 2025

Show of defiance

Ukraine badminton star: 'How can you feel normal when bombs are falling?'

Hidden fortune uncovered

Workers discover €9 million in gold hidden in Belgian wall

The site is blanketed in white slurry and discarded stone generated when marble and granite blocks are cut and polished.

With vivid blue pools

Indian marble waste dump becomes unlikely tourist attraction

Road crews inspect road damage caused by Hurricane Lala in Pahala, Hawaii

On biggest island

Hawaii recovery efforts begin as Lala downgraded, moves west

Erin Patterson was found guilty of murdering her husband's parents and elderly aunt in 2023 by serving them a beef Wellington lunch laced with lethal death cap mushrooms.

High-profile case

Australia's mushroom murderer appeals conviction

This photograph taken on August 1, 2026 shows a cyclist riding past the 110 year-old Parsi Dairy Farm, which reopened after being closed down for food safety norms violation by Maharashtra's Food and Drug Administration in Mumbai.

Iconic ice cream sandwiches

Food safety crackdown snares Mumbai's famed restaurants

Australia's Marnus Labuschagne (L) and Jake Weatherald face being axed for Australia's 2nd Test against Bangladesh

Humiliating loss

Axe hangs over Australian batters after Darwin 'disaster'

The Nigerian village of Ayetoro is disappearing into the Atlantic Ocean

'Walking on people's houses'

The Nigerian fishing community being eaten up by the Atlantic

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