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Winter is peak season for slipping and falling outdoors, which is ironic given that we are advised to go outside for our mental and physical wellbeing.Ice…

Flora DruryandBBC IndonesianWatch: BBC reports from the site of deadly flooding in West SumatraThe death toll in the floods which struck Indonesia last week has now…

The World Health Organisation recognises snakebite envenomation as a “neglected tropical disease”. It causes between 81,000 to 138,000 deaths globally every year, and four-times the number…

Helen BriggsBBC environment correspondentGetty ImagesA seal pup entangled in plastic on a beachScientists have analysed 10,000 marine animal autopsies to understand how plastic ingestion leads to…

A federal investigator said a UPS cargo plane’s left wing caught fire and an engine fell off shortly before it crashed and exploded into a fireball…

Oct 13, 2025, 12:30 PM ETMike Shildt is retiring as San Diego Padres manager with two years remaining on his contract, saying “the grind of the…

Dr. Paul Ransom of the British humanitarian medical NGO UK-Med, assisted by local medical staff, treats patients at a field hospital in Muwasi, near Khan Younis…

Trymaine Lee and his colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for The Times-Picayune’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Wayne Lawrence/St. Lawrence Press hide caption toggle caption…

Israeli forces have intensified their bombardment of Gaza City, levelling three residential blocks and killing at least 53 Palestinians, including 35 in Gaza City, as families…

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has shaken Afghanistan as the death toll from the devastating quake on Sunday rose to more than 2,200.It struck south-eastern regions on…