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Traumatized 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war erupted over six months ago. Lauren Anthony reports.

A letter written by Princess Diana and a portrait of John Lennon are among many items going up for auction in a British memorabilia sale next month, says Andrew Ewbank, a partner at Ewbank's Auction House.

Nearly two dozen women are at the center of a battle to have their village in eastern Serbia relocated away from a copper mine that they say has polluted their land and water and ruined the surrounding countryside. Olivia Zollino has more.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday (April 18) said the Middle East is on a "knife-edge" during a Security Council meeting that is due to vote on a Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership.

A storm hit the United Arab Emirates this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, gridlocked traffic and trapped people in their homes. Olivia Chan explains what we know about the reasons behind the record rainfall and subsequent flooding in the UAE.

UK-based Dexory has developed giant autonomous robots to patrol warehouses and use artificial intelligence (AI) to scan its surroundings. Ilan Rubens reports.

Rahoul Bobe pushes his bright yellow kayak out of a residential building's garage in Dubai on Thursday (April 18) to help people get around in the city's flooded streets after a record storm saw a year's rain fall in a day. Bobe said he decided to use his kayak to assist those left stranded by the floods or in buildings where power and water has been cut off and people have no access to food.

Kenya's coral reef scientist Swaleh Aboud says that 60% of the corals his team observed off the Mombasa coast have bleached.

Kim Aris said on Thursday (April 18) in an interview with Reuters that his mother was being used as a "human shield", after a Myanmar government spokesperson said that she had been moved from prison to house arrest. It was not immediately clear where Suu Kyi had been moved to. Junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

Britain's Prince William returned to public duties on Thursday (April 18) for the first time since his wife Kate revealed she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy for cancer.

As floods engulfed large parts of central Russia, residents of one village defied advice to flee their homes and started building a homemade dike. Vanesse Chan reports.

Members of Ghana's LGBT community and activists are waiting to see whether the West African country's president will sign into law a bill that would further restrict their rights and likely worsen the persecution many face. Alice Rizzo has more.

Vote Ubisi was born on the day of South Africa's first multiracial election - but thirty years later and Nelson Mandela's "rainbow nation" is beset by problems including high unemployment, corruption and crime. David Doyle reports.

Climate scientists have warned that a recent heatwave in West Africa, the worst in the region's living memory, is a sign that extreme temperatures could become more frequent. David Doyle has more.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the West had a different attitude towards Israel than his own country on Thursday (April 18), noting that when Iran launched missiles and drones towards Israel on Saturday (April 13), U.S., British and French forces helped down them.

As India gears up to vote in a seven-phase general election on April 19, the world's most populous nation entered the final stage of preparations on Thursday (April 18). Polling officials were dispatched with voting equipment that included Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), ballot boxes, control units and other essential documents required to set up polling booths across electoral constituencies.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday (April 18) called on supporters of Ukraine to maximize their efforts against Russian aggression as he met with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on the sidelines of the G7 ministerial meeting in Capri, Italy.

Polish President Andrzej Duda discussed Ukraine and the Middle East with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a meeting in New York on Wednesday (April 17) at which the former U.S. president said he was 'behind Poland all the way.'

Aid agencies say at least 13 people have been killed after heavy rains swept across Kenya. David Doyle has more.

The city's Bondi Westfield shopping center on Thursday (April 18) opened its doors once again for the first time since a man with a knife killed six people on Saturday (April 13) before police shot him. Residents could enter to pay their respects to the victims, with stores remaining closed and a white floral tribute laid out on the second floor.

Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives tried repeatedly to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion on Wednesday but failed to get the Republican support they needed against the Civil War-era measure poised to become state law once again. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

The University of Southern California canceled Muslim student Asna Tabassum's valedictorian speech this week– citing campus safety concerns and passions around the latest Middle East conflict. In a Wednesday interview with Reuters, Tabassum urged the school to reconsider. Gabe Singer reports.

Indonesian authorities raised the alert level of Sulawesi's Mount Ruang to the highest and issued a tsunami warning after volcanic activities spiked late on Wednesday (April 17), they said in a statement on Thursday (April 18).

The Biden administration said it would not renew a licence that was due to expire early on Thursday (April 18) that had largely eased oil sanctions on Venezuela, as it moves to reimpose punitive measures in response to President Nicolas Maduro's failure to deliver on election promises. Julian Satterthwaite reports.

Every year, around 10 to 15 sea otter pups are found stranded off the California coast, often because of storms separating mother and pup, according to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. It's partnering with Monterey Bay Aquarium to introduce surrogate mother otters to the stranded pups in the hopes of returning them to the wild.