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A search and rescue operation is under way after a passenger plane and a military helicopter crashed over a major river in Washington DC.The American Airlines flight, with 60 passengers and four crew on board, was landing at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport when the mid-air collision took place. The US Army Black Hawk helicopter had three soldiers on board.Washington crash latest: Follow updates as rescue continuesBoth aircraft fell […]

A ban preventing UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, from operating in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel has come into force today.The highly controversial move came into force after the Israeli Parliament voted in favour three months ago, and after a legal challenge to pause the ban was rejected by the Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday. Israel accuses UNRWA of having close links to Hamas in Gaza, which the […]

On the doorstep of Goma - the site of the UN's biggest peacekeeping mission in the world - there are signs of surrendered soldiers and fierce battles.As we walked on the road in front of the United Nations' main base, we stepped around fatigues, rounds and helmets once belonging to the Congolese army fighting the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels. The rebels now control the strategic city of Goma after fighting for […]

Australian police say they have foiled a planned antisemitic attack after discovering a caravan containing explosives alongside a list of Jewish targets.Police found enough explosives to make a bomb with a blast of around 130ft (40m) hidden in a caravan in the Sydney suburb of Dural on 19 January, New South Wales deputy police commissioner David Hudson told a news conference on Wednesday. The substance discovered was Powergel, an explosive […]

A plane caught fire on a runway in South Korea, forcing passengers to use the escape slide to evacuate.The Air Busan plane was set to leave Gimhae International Airport for Hong Kong when its rear parts burst into flames, the country's transport ministry said. The plane's 169 passengers, six crew members and one engineer were evacuated from the aircraft. Three people suffered minor injuries, the National Fire Agency said. Image: The […]

Many people are feared dead and dozens have been injured in a stampede at a Hindu festival in northern India.Images from the scene in the city of Prayagraj, in Uttar Pradesh state, show bodies being stretchered away and rescuers helping those who were hurt. Millions of people were attempting to take a holy bath in the river at the massive Maha Kumbh festival when there was an initial stampede at […]

A British man has reportedly died after being swept out to sea in Tenerife.The 63-year-old tourist was one of three people who got into difficulties at Los Gigantes natural swimming pool on the west side of the Spanish island, according to The Sun. The other two people, both women, managed to get back to safety, the newspaper adds.A local Civil Guard officer reportedly said all three were in the pool, […]

A truck and its driver have been swallowed by a sinkhole on a busy intersection in Japan, officials say, with a rescue operation under way.The driver was still trapped in the vehicle eight hours after it fell into the crater - approximately 20ft deep and 32ft wide - as it formed in the Japanese city of Yashio. Officials said the collapse, which happened at about 10am local time on Tuesday, […]

Based on the limited numbers of comparisons made so far, DeepSeek's AI models appear to be faster, smaller, and a whole lot cheaper than the best offerings from the supposed titans of AI like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.And here's the kicker, the Chinese offering appears to be just as good. So how have they done it? Firstly, it looks like DeepSeek's engineers have thought about what an AI needs to […]