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There have been two deaths in central Italy caused by falling trees on Thursday after strong storms battered several regions after weeks of punishingly high temperatures. This is according to rescue services cited by Reuters. There has been an announcement

There will be more travel misery for passengers traveling by rail, tube, and bus in London as tens of thousands of workers stage a strike over pay, jobs, and conditions in the wake of long-running disputes. A walkout of employees

It has been reported that 16 people have been killed by a mountain torrent disaster triggered by heavy rain in northwest China’s Qinghai Province as of Thursday noon. Another 36 are still missing, according to a report from the Xinhua

In a record-breaking dive at Deep Dive Dubai, the world’s deepest pool, Russian free diving champion Alexey Molchanov dived 60 metres and returned to the surface in 57 seconds, breaking the world record for fastest dive. In the process, he

A two-year-old girl killed a snake, in revenge for biting her lip while she was playing in the back garden of her home in the village of Kantar, Turkey. The neighbors were alerted when she screamed loudly. A snake was

Rajnath Singh, the Indian defence minister, has emphasized the need to reform the United Nations’ structure, saying this worrying shortcoming is a manifestation of the organization’s structural inadequacy. If the United Nations’ structure is not reformed and decision-making is not

An origami-style glass building houses a miniature bio-biological dome in which a gigantic kapok tree stands four stories high, forming a closed ecosystem that resembles tropical rainforests with over 3,000 species of plants and animals living under the largest artificial

The torrential rains which flooded various states in Sudan resulted in the deaths of more than 52 people, according to Sudanese authorities. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the torrential downpour, which usually occurs

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed Monday that Japan would never again wage war. This was as members of his cabinet visited a shrine honoring war dead, angering South Korea and China. The relationship between Japan and China was already

A previously unknown small armored dinosaur has been discovered in southern Argentina, a creature which likely walked upright about 100 million years ago through a steamy landscape. They said the Cretaceous Period dinosaur, named Jakapil kaniukura, would have had bony