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The video installation prompted a row over its claims about Churchill's role in the Bengal famine.

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Influenza outbreak hits US Air Force base, over 160 infected

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As many as seven earthquakes continued off Sevastopol for four hours

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Hydration tracking gadgets are flooding the market but is it too much information?

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Another post-Brexit prime minister bites the dust. Keir Starmer owning up to the obvious, that he's too unpopular to lead the Labour Party into the next general election. After replacing the hard left's Jeremy Corbyn, the same Starmer won a whopping landslide two years ago on the promise of stability after all the chaos of Tory rule. Where did it all go wrong? Can the heavy favorite to replace him win back disgruntled Labour voters who first flocked to the Conservatives and now to the far-right Reform party?

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Treatment capacity for the rare and deadly Bundibugyo species of Ebola is expanding in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that community mistrust remains a major challenge to ending the outbreak.

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Iranian crude is flooding onto the global market again, just as the US waives sanctions on the cargoes, permitting far more countries to buy them.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on June 22, forced out by his own party after missteps and mistakes soured voters’ goodwill following a landslide election in 2024. His likely successor, Andy Burnham, has just been sworn in as an MP and has no official rival to run for party leader. FRANCE 24's Philip Turle takes a look.

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Warning comes as country braces for likely fourth consecutive year of punishing monsoon, expected to arrive this month.

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We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has recorded 896 confirmed Ebola cases and 232 deaths since declaring an Ebola outbreak on May 15.

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Allies of Keir Starmer expect him to set out a timetable for his departure as UK prime minister, putting Britain on course for its seventh premier in a decade and paving the way for Andy Burnham to replace him. Starmer being on the brink of leaving office comes after the landslide election victory he secured in 2024, which returned Labour to power after 14 years out of office. The Opening Trade has everything you need to know as markets open across Europe. With analysis you won't find anywhere else, we break down the biggest stories of the day and speak to top guests who have skin in the game. Hosted by Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Tom Mackenzie. (Source: Bloomberg)

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New York erupted in jubilant scenes on Saturday when the Knicks broke a 53-year drought to defeat the San Antonio Spurs away in Texas.

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PRESS REVIEW – Monday, June 22: Papers discuss the expected departure of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In France, the brutal heatwave didn't stop the massive street party, Fête de la Musique. Also: AI-generated influencers are flooding social media. Finally, can online chess mania replace doomscrolling?

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Dutiful rather than dynamic, Keir Starmer was elected to be a safe pair of hands after years of chaos under Britain’s Conservatives. His term ended less than two years later amid corruption allegations, policy U-turns, and after links were revealed between his choice for US ambassador and Jeffrey Epstein, a man Starmer has never met.

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Director of the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Foreign Ministry Kirill Logvinov believes that, first of all, the overrepresentation of the Western minority who have flooded the Secretariat must be addressed

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Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said that further tremors are possible

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According to the Office of Civil Defense, cited by GMA News, a total of 456 people were injured, and four more are missing

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A historically strong earthquake ⁠struck off Cuba’s northwest ⁠coast on Monday, according to official ⁠reports, shaking parts of Cuba, Mexico and Florida that are typically not prone to quakes. The US Geological Survey (USGS) measured the quake at a magnitude 6.1 at a shallow depth of 26km (16 miles) and its epicentre 104km ‌west-northwest of Mantua, Cuba, about two to four hours by car from the capital Havana. Monday’s earthquake was unusual for this area of the Caribbean, said Paul Earle, a...

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The epicenter of the tremors was located 113 km northeast of Bandar Abbas

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One could feel the tremors, when in high-rise buildings

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The top UN aid official in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is in Ituri province – the epicentre of the country's Ebola outbreak – for a three-day assessment visit, as the confirmed case count reaches 515 across three eastern provinces.

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Drone footage shows entire neighbourhoods, roads and farmland submerged by floodwaters in China's southwestern Guizhou.

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Offshore quake rocks Mindanao, killing at least 35 and injuring more than 200.

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Tedros said the country had responded promptly and capably, but called for it to reopen the border with DR Congo.

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The World Health Organization head is visiting Uganda, praising its "prompt and capable response" to the Ebola outbreak just across the border in DRC's Ituri province. Uganda has logged just a few cases, mainly imported.

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A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the southern Philippines off the island of Mindanao, killing at least 32.

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Pupils could be heard screaming as the earthquake struck the city of Digos, but the school said nobody was injured in the incident.

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The majority of deaths were caused by landslides and collapsed buildings

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Malaysia ordered a crackdown on Monday against illegal businesses run by foreigners, joining a growing list of Southeast Asian nations rocked by similar operations amid simmering local resentment. In recent years, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia introduced visa-free entry for foreign visitors following the Covid-19 pandemic in a bid to revive their flagging tourism, property and investment sectors. But last month, Thailand removed the 60-day visa-free entry for 93 countries and...