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Nine people - including a child - have been killed and another 50 injured after a stage collapsed during a presidential campaign rally in Mexico.Video footage of the collapse posted on social media showed people screaming, running away and climbing out from under metal polls at the event for presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez in the northern state of Nuevo Leon.Mr Maynez, who represents the centrist Citizens' Movement party, said […]

A fire-breather has been treated in hospital in Mexico after being attacked by a mariachi band and fighting back by setting several of them on fire.Security camera footage of the bizarre fight shows one of the mariachis chasing the fire-breather, placing him in a headlock, before punching him multiple times as traffic on a busy street stops. The fire-breather is then seen on the pavement as five of the band […]

A 50-year-old man has been caught on camera jumping off a pleasure boat to try and "body slam" an orca in New Zealand, in what was branded "disgraceful" and "pathetic" behaviour."Shocking" footage of the man diving into the sea to land on the orca with his body has sparked uproar on social media after New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DoC) posted it on its Instagram account. The man has been […]

Tens of thousands of mourners have followed a funeral procession for Iran's late president, foreign minister and the other victims of a helicopter crash.Ebrahim Raisi died along with seven others in the crash near the country's border with Azerbaijan on Sunday.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers for the victims at the funeral at Tehran University.The caskets of the dead, including the late foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, were draped in […]

Ireland, Norway and Spain have officially recognised Palestine as a separate state, prompting Israel to recall its ambassadors from two of the European states.Speaking on Wednesday, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said: "Today Ireland, Norway and Spain are announcing that we recognise the state of Palestine, each of us will undertake whatever national steps are necessary to give effect to that decision."I am confident that further countries will join us […]

Mexico is so hot that howler monkeys have been dropping dead out of the trees.At least 83 of the primates, who are known for their roaring calls, were found dead in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco where temperatures are forecast to surpass 45C this week. Others were rescued by residents, including five that were rushed to a local vet who battled to save them."They arrived in critical condition, with […]

The 73-year-old British man who died from a suspected heart attack after "sudden extreme turbulence" on a London-Singapore flight has been named as Geoff Kitchen.Dozens more were injured in the incident, with passengers describing people being "launched into the ceiling" and overhead lockers.Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from Heathrow was forced to make an emergency landing at Bangkok Airport in Thailand.Mr Kitchen, from Thornbury near Bristol, was on a six-week holiday […]

Turbulence struck a Singapore Airlines flight from London Heathrow on Tuesday, with one man dead and many others "launched into the ceiling".At least 30 others were injured Flight tracking data showed the plane cruising at 37,000ft (11,280m) before dropping 6,000ft (1,830m) in around three minutes over the Indian Ocean. A spokesperson for FlightRadar24 said this appeared to "just be a flight level change in preparation for landing".Authorities believe the 73-year-old […]

Joe Biden has said "what is happening in Gaza is not genocide" following an arrest warrant request by the International Criminal Court prosecutor for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.The US president branded the warrant request as "outrageous," adding "whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence - none - between Israel and Hamas." "What's happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that," Mr Biden said at a Jewish […]