Seven oil tankers caught fire or were damaged in the Strait of Hormuz overnight after being hit by Iran or striking naval mines, Tehran said Thursday, a markedly high number as tensions wind upward over concerns about a return to all-out war.With days before Israel`s close elections in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could lose…
South African authorities are investigating two separate outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness, one linked to contaminated municipal water in Tshwane and another affecting students at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape.
As Brazilians head to the polls on Sunday for the second round of presidential elections, our correspondents take us to the heart of the country’s favelas, where residents live in unsanitary conditions. Over the past 40 years, the area occupied by Brazilian favelas has almost tripled in size. They now cover around 460,000 hectares, compared…
France has reported the first-ever recorded case of a human contracting the Shamonda livestock virus, which is most commonly found in cattle. Public health authorities stressed that there did not appear to be any health risk to the public, adding that the infection had been “an exceptional case” involving a person with a severely compromised…
The BBC’s technology correspondent Joe Tidy explains how it happened, and what it means for you.
Jim O’Callaghan described the video as “inappropriate and demeaning to grandparents”.
The epicentre was in a sparsely populated, high-altitude county in Nagqu, northern Tibet
Kenya launches $160 million initiative to fund wildlife conservation
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 22: The New York Times’s sources report plans for fresh strikes on Iran after the US midterm elections. In other news, the French Senate publishes a 30-step proposal for how to “take back control”, just days after protests gave way to riots. Also, how software engineers found and patched up…
It is suspected that the victim was bitten by a midge carrying the virus in eastern France