6 hours ago Lucy WilliamsonMiddle East correspondent, Jerusalem Anadolu via Getty Images Search and rescue groups attended a two storey building collapse following heavy rainfall in Beit Lahia on Friday A steady stream of water trickles through openings in the tent Ghadir al-Adham shares with her husband and six children in Gaza City. Her family…
Thailand has dissolved parliament after nearly a week of fresh clashes along its border with Cambodia, with a general election to be called within 45 to 60 days. In a royal decree published on Friday, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul cited the deadly border dispute among other challenges his minority government has struggled to contain since…
Reddit has launched a challenge in Australia’s highest court against the nation’s landmark social media ban for children. The online forum is among 10 social media platforms which must bar Australians aged under 16 from having accounts, under a new law which began on Wednesday. The ban, which is being watched closely around the world,…
12 hours ago Reuters South Korea’s Suneung is an infamous eight-hour marathon of back-to-back exams The English section of South Korea’s gruelling college entrance exam, or Suneung, is notoriously difficult, with some students comparing it to deciphering an ancient script, and others calling it “insane”. So intense was the criticism around this year’s test that…
12 hours ago Maia Davies Watch: Video shows US military seizing oil tanker off Venezuela coast The US has imposed fresh sanctions on six more ships said to be carrying Venezuelan oil, a day after seizing a tanker off the country’s coast. Sanctions have also been placed on some of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s relatives…
Russia could attack a Nato country within the next five years, the Western military alliance’s chief has said in a stark new warning. “Russia is already escalating its covert campaign against our societies,” Mark Rutte said in a speech in Germany. “We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured.”…
We perceive colour using input from the cone cells in our retinas Shutterstock/Kitreel In April, a team of researchers reported a device enabled them to witness an intense green-blue colour that had never been seen by humans before. After the announcement, they were bombarded by requests from the public to see the colour for themselves.…
Illustration of an asteroid passing nearby the moon MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by astronomers in late December 2024 and was estimated to be between 40 and 90…
Adobe Stock Photo/Phoebe Watts A blue Earth ascends over the barren surface of the moon, against the black void of space. This famous photograph, Earthrise, was taken on Christmas Eve of 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders. After almost six decades, we take this image for granted. But imagine a different Earthrise, in which…
Koron/Getty Images Whatever you’re tucking into this festive season, chances are you didn’t have to kill it yourself or forage it from the wild. For that, you can thank your ancestors who, starting around 10,000 years ago, pulled off one of humanity’s most dramatic transformations: they began shifting from their traditional lifestyle of hunting and…