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Families in Deir Al-Balah said on Wednesday (September 4) they are bracing for the end of the temporary pause in hostilities in central Gaza, on the final day of the first stage of a polio vaccination campaign to help stem the risk of its spread across the war-torn territory.

During his visit to Indonesia on Wednesday (September 4), Pope Francis suggested people in other countries choose pets over having children and he praised Indonesians for having large families.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigned on Wednesday, the highest-profile casualty so far of a major government reshuffle ordered by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a crucial juncture in the 30-month war against Russia. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

Amid airstrikes and bombings, a Gazan teenager whose musical future has been upended, has found new life in playing his oud for children living through the daily horrors of the ongoing war. Diane To has more.

Coca-Cola and PepsiCo both face challenges from local sodas in Muslim-majority countries as consumers boycott the companies which represent the U.S., a strong supporter of Israel, over the war in Gaza. Fiona Jones reports.

Ukrainian Fashion Week has been held in Kyiv for the first time since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.

A Spanish Guardia Civil team retrieved the dead body of a British hiker and rescued 10 others who where trapped by flash floods in the Tramontana mountains of the Balearic island of Mallorca on Wednesday (September 4), police said.

The chair of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people in 2017 said on Wednesday (September 4) all the deaths were avoidable and added that the victims had been badly failed.

Danish police on Wednesday (September 4) apprehended activist Greta Thunberg at a Copenhagen protest against the war in Gaza, a spokesperson for the student group organising the demonstration said.

Severe flash floods struck Tom Green County, Texas, Tuesday (September 3), forcing multiple rescues and prompting road closures across the city.

Groups of migrants attempted to cross the Channel on Wednesday (September 4) morning, just one day after an unsuccessful attempt ended in the death of 12 people when their dinghy capsized.

An overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's western city of Lviv close to the border with NATO member Poland killed seven people, including three children, local officials said on Wednesday.

Drone footage captured in western India's Gujarat state showed large swathes of a residential district inundated on Wednesday (September 4) after heavy rains led to massive flooding.

Russia's early Wednesday (September 4) attack on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has killed seven people, including three children, Mayor Andriy Sadovy said on the Telegram messaging app.

Pope Francis on Wednesday (September 4) urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, to guard against religious extremism, which he said distorted people's religious beliefs through "deception and violence".

Plastic bottle caps, food packaging, single-use utensils and scrapped toys are just some of the throw-away items that have been given a new life at a zero-waste workshop in Taipei. Syakir Jasnee reports.

A group of volunteers in southeastern Australia are on a mission to protect the wombat from mange, a skin disease caused by parasitic mites. Melina Budden, founder of the Blue Mountains Wombat Conservation Group, calls the disease a 'biosecurity issue' because it affects most of Australia's native mammals and can also infect livestock and immunocompromised humans. Olivia Zollino reports.

A former aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul was charged on Tuesday with secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government in exchange for millions of dollars in compensation and gifts, including meals of gourmet duck. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

The Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged after a violent storm hit Rome, conservation authorities said on Tuesday (September 3).

After a winter of hardly any snow, a summer of punishing heatwaves and months of little rain, Lake Mornos - a huge man-made lake which supplies water for nearly half the Greek population - has dwindled to its lowest level in decades, exposing the muddied remains of a once sunken village. Kristy Kilburn has more.

Suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants roared into a northeastern Nigerian village on motorcycles, opened fire on a market and set shops and homes ablaze, killing at least 37 people, according to a military official. Emma Jehle reports.

Belgrade's Sava River is covered in a thick layer of green algae as a result of prolonged heat and minimal rainfall, according to scientists.

Belgrade's Sava River is covered in a thick layer of green algae as a result of prolonged heat and minimal rainfall, according to scientists.

South African scientists on Tuesday unveiled a fragment of what they described as a motorcycle-sized meteorite that was discovered by a little girl in the country's Eastern Cape province last month. The scientists said it was a rare type of an achondritic meteorite. Fiona Jones reports.

Volkswagen is considering closing factories in Germany for the first time, in a move that shows the mounting price pressure Europe's top carmaker faces from Asian rivals. Director of the Center of Automotive Management, Stefan Bratzel, says the news is a "major wake-up call."