France has confirmed its first case of Ebola – a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The doctor was “immediately admitted to a specialised facility” and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday. DR Congo announced an Ebola outbreak last month, but…
EES started to be rolled out in October last year and is now fully up and running. The time it takes to register biometric information means people have been told to prepare for a wait at border controls. During the introductory period, queues started to flare up at certain airports at busy times. Since then,…
Kenyan prosecutors say they are preparing to charge several students with the murder of their schoolmates following a suspected school arson attack last month. Sixteen pupils, aged between 15 and 18, died and dozens more were injured when a fire broke out in a dormitory at Utumishi Girls’ School in Gilgil, about 120km (77 miles)…
A woman who was bitten by a shark more than a week ago while swimming at a popular Sydney beach has woken briefly from an induced coma, her family has said. Leah Stewart was attacked by a shark on Saturday 13 June at Coogee Beach, suffering multiple bites on her arms and legs and extreme…
Trump criticised the resolution on Tuesday night, calling it “poorly timed and meaningless”. “So, I have Iran on the ‘ropes,’ ready to go down for the fall… and the U.S. Senate decides to have a poorly timed and meaningless War Powers Act Vote,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “These Senators have just made…
The man hailed a hero for tackling one of the gunmen who killed 15 people at Bondi Beach has pleaded not guilty to allegedly assaulting his father, a Sydney court has heard. Ahmed al Ahmed, 44, appeared before Bankstown Local Court on Wednesday to face charges of assault as well as stalking and intimidation in…
US congressman Dan Goldman has been defeated in a New York primary election, capping a clean sweep for candidates backed by New York’s democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani as he seeks to tilt the Democratic Party to the left. Goldman was beaten by progressive challenger Brad Lander in New York’s 10th congressional district in a…
By Sarah Rainsford, in Rome Even for sun-loving Italy, current temperatures are extreme for June. The list of cities issued with a red alert warning is long and set to grow on Wednesday, with the most sweltering spots in the centre and north of the country. As the temperature climbed this week, the government reintroduced…
Forty people have drowned in heatwave-related deaths in France since 18 June officials have said, as temperatures hit record levels in several major cities and the heatwave reached a peak in several European countries. Measures have been put in place across western Europe in order to help people manage the heat. The BBC’s Pierre-Antoine Denis…
Stanford has laid claim to innovations ranging from computer time-sharing to the synthesis of biologically active DNA. It’s home to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where the first website in North America went online in 1991. Alums include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, which began as a research project while both…