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Elon Musk's plans to go to Mars may not have come crashing down to Earth but they've certainly suffered a significant setback.The ninth test flight of Starship, the SpaceX spacecraft specifically designed to make "humans an interplanetary species", ended with it spinning out of control over the Indian Ocean. This was Starship's third consecutive failure.The machine that was touted as taking humans as far as Mars as soon as 2028 […]

👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈As international criticism of Israel's latest military offensive in Gaza mounts, Richard and Yalda ask how likely a ceasefire is in the coming weeks. Also, one of Richard's contacts tells him how Israel is using talking drones in Gaza which he describes as 'like something from Black Mirror'.Yalda unpacks her interview with a Hamas official, who has […]

Thousands of Palestinians have flocked to aid distribution sites in Gaza with desperation for food overcoming concerns over Israeli-enforced checks at the centres.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is backed by Israel and the US, said on Tuesday it had distributed around 8,000 food boxes, equivalent to about 462,000 meals - just a fraction of what is needed, aid agencies say. The centres have opened as hundreds of legal professionals […]

A British trade envoy has visited Israel to "promote trade" between the two countries - a week after the UK suspended talks.Lord Ian Austin, who is the UK government's trade envoy to Israel, was welcomed to Haifa on Monday, just days after Foreign Secretary David Lammy paused negotiations. The British Embassy in Israel said Lord Austin had visited a number of projects - such as the Customs Scanning Centre, Haifa […]

A man who stole an iconic wartime portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from a hotel has been jailed for nearly two years, according to media reports in Canada.Police said the "Roaring Lion" portrait - which appears on the UK's £5 note - was stolen from the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa in Canada sometime between Christmas Day 2021 and 6 January 2022. It was replaced with a fake and […]

King Charles and Queen Camilla are being urged to use their visit to Canada to seek an apology for the abuse of British children. Campaigners have called on them to pursue an apology for the "dire circumstances" suffered by so-called "Home Children" over decades. More than 100,000 were shipped from orphan homes in the UK to Canada between 1869 and 1948 with many used as cheap labour, typically as farm […]

Western allies are lifting range restrictions for weapons supplied to Ukraine, Germany's chancellor has announced.Previously, long-range missiles supplied to Ukraine by the US, the UK and France were only allowed to be used against Russian military targets in occupied Ukrainian territory. Friedrich Merz announced during a Europe forum organised by German broadcaster WDR: "There are no longer any restrictions on the range of weapons delivered to Ukraine, neither by the […]

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered three tombs dating back more than 3,500 years.The tombs of prominent statesmen were discovered in the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, according to officials. The new discoveries date back to the New Kingdom period (1550 BC), with the names and titles of the tombs' owners also found through inscriptions within.Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, […]

A video showing Emmanuel Macron being pushed in the face by his wife has been played down by the French president's office.Brigitte Macron placed her hands on her husband's face as they prepared to exit their plane after touching down in Vietnam at the start of a South East Asia tour. President Macron is seen taking a step back before he recovers and waves to the cameras at the bottom […]