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An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC’s US partner CBS News....

A controversy over a waterfall has cascaded into a social media storm in China, even prompting an explanation from the water body itself....

Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country’s tax agency is still one of Sweden’s most trusted institutions....

Idris Elba, who stars in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, sees a future where films and games converge.

Hamas says it has launched a rocket attack towards the Tel Aviv area in central Israel for the first time in nearly four months. At least eight rockets were launched from the Rafah area in southern Gaza and several were intercepted, the Israeli military says. No injuries have been reported.

An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says....

Three years ago, lawyer Jordan van den Berg was an obscure TikTok creator who made videos that mocked real estate agents....

Months after some Israelis started to protest against aid lorries entering Gaza at the main Kerem Shalom crossing, the battle has moved to other key junctions, where rival groups of activists do their best to block or protect aid convoys....

Believe it or not, no aliens were likely involved! Just some very smart humans and a massive amount of labor.

Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem “too softly”....

Estonia considers itself a front-line state, a Nato member where its border guards stare across the Narva River at the Russian fortress of Ivangorod....

What followed was a wave of shooting and arson attacks across 11 Palestinian villages in which a dozen homes and more than 100 cars were torched, thousands of animals were slaughtered, four people were shot dead and scores of others were seriously wounded.

Plans to stop young people born since 2009 ever smoking are being debated and will be voted on later....

Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan can be extradited to the UK, a Romanian court has ruled....

Ukraine has begun using longer-range ballistic missiles against Russia that were secretly provided by the US, American officials have confirmed....