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The Vatican has released the first image of Pope Francis since he was taken to hospital more than a month ago. The photograph shows the leader of the Catholic church celebrating a mass in his prayer room on Sunday morning. He's seen wearing a purple stole while sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar.No one else is visible in the image."This morning Pope Francis concelebrated the Holy Mass […]

The crew replacing the astronauts who were stranded for nine months on the International Space Station (ISS) have entered the orbiting lab.A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts on Sunday on a mission to allow Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams - who have been on the ISS since June 2024 - to return home. Around 29 hours after the Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the […]

US President Donald Trump has launched strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. In a post on his Truth Social platform, he also warned Iran the country's support for the group must "end immediately". The Iran-backed Houthis reported a series of explosions in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Saturday evening. The Houthi-run health ministry said in a post on X that at least nine civilians have been killed and nine others injured.Images […]

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This week's eclipse has been photographed from the moon's point of view.But rather than being the lunar eclipse that was seen from Earth, on the moon it was a solar eclipse. The images were taken by a camera on board the unmanned Blue Ghost spacecraft which successfully landed on the planet earlier this month. Image: Blue Ghost pictured ahead of its launch and subsequent moon landing. Pic: Firefly Aerospace Operator […]

The head of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has been killed in an airstrike in western Iraq, according to Iraqi officials and US military commanders. Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social the "fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed" after being "relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated". He added: "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!"Details of the operation in Iraq have […]

The American influencer who snatched a baby wombat from its distressed mother has said "thousands threatened" her life, and that she is "truly sorry" in an Instagram post.Sam Jones, who describes herself as an "outdoor enthusiast and hunter", wrote a lengthy statement on social media, saying she was "extremely concerned" about the wombat's health, so she ran away from the joey's mother out of fear of attack. She says she […]

Mark Carney has been formally sworn in as the new prime minister of Canada, following the resignation of predecessor Justin Trudeau.Mr Carney, a former governor of both the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, will try to steer his country through a trade war brought by Donald Trump. Mr Trump has also made repeated threats to make the US neighbour to the north its 51st state.Speaking at a news […]

An American influencer who caused outrage by snatching a baby wombat from its mother has left Australia - amid concerns the "disorientated" marsupial may not have refound its parent. Sam Jones, who describes herself as an "outdoor enthusiast and hunter", left the country on Friday after the Australian government said it was reviewing her visa. In a now-deleted video to her 92,000 followers on Instagram, recorded at an unknown location, […]