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Archaeologists find remains of insects that ‘hitchhiked’ here nearly 2,000 years ago...

Its walls collapsed and its minaret cut short, Gaza’s Omari mosque remains standing but vastly diminished. Around it, the historic old city is also in tatters. The 7th-century mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Gaza, was Gaza’s most famous and its surroundings a focal point of the Palestinian enclave’s history and...

About 200,000 people have taken to the streets of Germany in further protests against the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD)....

Police launch investigation after attack on home of Oba Aremu Olusegun Cole in south-western Kwara state...

Now deceased man said he was Satoshi Kirishima who was allegedly member of radical group in 1970s that bombed Japanese firms...

Russia’s elections commission has said it found “dead souls” among the more than 100,000 signatures of support submitted by Boris Nadezhdin, the sole anti-war candidate in next month’s presidential election, in a sign that he could be disqualified from a carefully managed ballot meant to deliver victory for Vladimir...

Armenia has formally joined the international criminal court (ICC), officials said, a move which traditional ally Moscow has denounced as unfriendly....

Taro Aso, vice-president of ruling LDP, said Yoko Kamikawa ‘not that good looking’, got her name wrong, used ageist jibe and mixed up her place in history...

Constitutional change could face fight in Senate after national assembly approves measure by 493 votes to 30...

There’s a pretty cool set of footage from CBC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GApsl5_4PsE

Plans to make vaping less appealing also to include restricting fruity flavours and introducing plain packaging...

Visitors at Louvre look on in shock as Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece attacked by environmental protesters...

Washington’s ambassador says Budapest is ‘really alone’ and describes its foreign policy as a ‘fantasy’...

Live coverage thread of the International Court of Justice and the case of South Africa vs. Israel.

More than 100,000 people turned out across Germany on Saturday in protest against the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which sparked an outcry after it emerged that the party’s members discussed mass deportation plans at a meeting of extremists....

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, fears that if Donald Trump returns to the White House next year he could make unilateral concessions to Russia that override Ukraine’s interests and branded the former US president’s claims he could stop the war in 24 hours as “very dangerous”....

Instruction manuals died out as video games introduced tutorials instead. But now games such as Tunic and The Banished Vault are bringing them back