Israel-Hamas war: Hostage-for-prisoner swap and truce in Gaza ‘delayed’
A temporary truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, lasting at least four days, has been delayed until Friday, according to Israel officials. As part of the deal, there are plans for a hostage-for-prisoner swap and more much-needed aid to get into the besieged coastal territory to help civilians suffering from severe shortages of food, […]
Frank Borman: NASA astronaut dies aged 95
Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA’s first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95. Borman commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10 times – paving the way for the following year’s lunar landing. He died on Tuesday 7 November in Billings, Montana, NASA said. Paying […]
World’s first whole-eye transplant hailed as breakthrough – but sight not yet restored
Surgeons have performed the world’s first ever whole-eye transplant, a feat hailed as a breakthrough despite the patient not yet regaining his sight. Doctors “never expected it to work at all”, patient Aaron James said, but the eye has shown signs of health, such as functioning blood vessels and a promising retina. It has been […]
Man cleared of sexually assaulting child after 35 years in prison
A man who spent 35 years behind bars in the US after being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl has been freed from prison thanks to a DNA breakthrough. Louis Wright, now aged 65, had lived near the child’s home in Albion, Michigan, at the time of the attack in 1988 and an […]
Israel-Hamas war: Hundreds of foreign nationals cross Gaza-Egypt border – with Britons among them
The first British nationals have left Gaza and crossed the Rafah border into Egypt, the Foreign Office has said. UK teams are on the ground providing assistance, but the Foreign Office did not specify how many Britons had crossed the border. A total of 76 wounded people and their companions left Gaza in ambulances today, […]
Wildfire forces thousands to flee their homes in California
More than 4,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to escape a wildfire scorching land around 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The blaze was first reported just before 12.45pm local time on Monday and within hours it had grown in size to cover an area of around two square miles, officials said. […]
Warnings Robert Card was ‘hearing voices’ and ‘going to snap’, before Maine mass shooting
The family of a man who carried out a mass shooting in Maine warned that he was hearing voices five months before he killed 18 people, officials have confirmed. Documents released on Monday show it was one of a number of attempts to alert authorities to the danger Robert Card potentially posed. In July, the […]
US and China back UK deal to collaborate over potentially ‘catastrophic’ threats posed by AI
The US and China have endorsed a joint declaration on the need to manage the potentially “catastrophic” risks posed by Artificial Intelligence. The world’s leading AI powers were among 28 nations to agree to the UK’s Bletchley Declaration, which stresses the need for countries to work together on the powerful technology. It was published on […]
Man who received second pig heart transplant dies in Maryland hospital
The second person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on 20 September. The heart had seemed healthy for the first […]
Israeli military operations in Gaza ‘will escalate’, IDF warns
Israeli troops are pushing deeper into the Gaza Strip as the country’s chief military spokesperson warns military operations in the region “will escalate”. As Israel continues to demand the release of 239 hostages held in Gaza by Hamas, the militant group released a video on Monday claiming to show three of the women it captured […]
