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The Mapocho river has burst its banks after an unusually large amount of rain fell in recent days.

It is the latest in a diplomatic spat after Kyiv disclosed that two North Korean prisoners were transferred to Seoul.

Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.

Many Palestinians are still living in cramped tent cities, with the US plan to end the war largely stalled.

Bassam al-Hassan is being sheltered in return for information - including about abducted US reporter Austin Tice.

Known for his intense performances, Patekar carved out a distinctive place in Indian cinema.

Students' blockades and marches spring from real grievances – and from France's habit of settling policy on the street.

Lawyers for Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution after Christa Pike's botched lethal injections.

Trump's estate would stand in stark contrast to the rustic Camp David and mark another tradition transformed by Trump.

Thomas Giuffra is representing a woman, known in legal documents as Jane Doe, who alleges she was raped at a frat house on campus in 2024.

Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.

Wicknell Chivayo divided opinion in life and continues to do so in death.

The families allege that men with links to the Saudi government helped those who carried out the 2001 attacks, something the country denies.

The new charges are expected to accuse Maduro and his wife of playing a role in the torture of Americans in Venezuelan prisons, US media reports.

The BBC's Madeline Gerber describes the conditions of the mansion where the children - some as young as two months old - were living.

Sun Yuanyuan was seemingly pictured on the back of another person's bike during part of the Berlin Marathon.

Memorial events have taken place in Israel on the third anniversary of the Hamas-led attack that sparked the devastating Gaza war.

People with mental illness alone were to be eligible for assisted dying in Canada in March 2027, but that has now been paused indefinitely.

Residents of Adigrat tell the BBC they have seen truck loads of soldiers from Eritrea moving south.

Rescue workers are continuing a search for residents after an apartment building in Pryluky was destroyed.

Fears that the death may have been caused by pneumonic plague has prompted calls for more transparency from Russia.

The patient passed through multiple cities in DR Congo, drove to Uganda and eventually flew to Kenya.

The step comes after several groups complained of police using disproportionate force towards teenagers.

The prize was given to the French and Japanese scientists for solving the mystery of life's asymmetry.

The 73-year-old has been arrested over allegations that a charity she is linked to misused donations.

Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were arrested at their Arcadia mansion after 21 children were removed from their custody last year.

She starred opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, then alongside Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Some running in November's elections are deciding whether to distance themselves from an unpopular president who still dominates his party.

Experts and lawyers called the apparent recovery unprecedented, noting she is believed to be the only known person to survive a lethal injection.

The BBC's Sarah Smith details the injuries sustained by the US death row inmate after two failed lethal injections, and what comes next.

A sharp increase in human activity is affecting the way the Himalayan monal lives and communicates, studies show.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across France amid a wave of protests by high-school pupils.

The BBC speaks to experts about current US state sexual assault laws and why some believe changing them will help alleged victims.

Gavin Newsom called the remarks "deranged", but the White House said Trump was warning of the risk of a nuclear Iran.

The deal is expected to alter the entertainment and news industries but could it mean higher prices for consumers?

The order affecting two planned data centres follows concerns over forest clearance.

The death of a worker from a Russian lab that researches plague has prompted questions about the disease.

Although Tobias Rausch's role is largely symbolic, opponents have described the result as a watershed moment.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the rape allegations, but the lawyer says comments she made on the case should disqualify her.