Reuters A seven-month-old baby boy has been killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said.
The ministry identified the infant as Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, adding that his parents were also injured in the shooting in the Tel Rumeida area, south of the city of Hebron.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops
Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
On a day that Nandini Harinath describes as the most important of her life, the Indian space scientist turned up to the office in a vibrant red and blue silk sari.
That sari is now in pride of place in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
Nandini, who was the deputy operations
EPA The latest Ebola figures from the Democratic Republic of Congo appear to offer some hope after the number of cases was dramatically scaled back.
At one point the authorities were talking of more than 1,000 suspected cases and nearly 250 suspected deaths.
They are now reporting around 380 confirmed cases in DR Congo, including 60 deaths, plus another 15 confirmed cases and one death in neighbouring Uganda.
British actor Anthony Head, best known for his roles in TV shows including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso, Merlin and Little Britain, has died at the age of 72.
Head found international fame as Rupert Giles in hit supernatural teen show Buffy in the late 1990s.
"He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family," his daughters Emily and Daisy said.
Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the
Stock markets suffered a sharp drop on Friday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq index seeing its biggest one-day drop since April 2025.
With fears mounting that gains so far this year may be unsustainable, a surprisingly strong US jobs report for April sparked a selloff, with the major US markets ending the week in the red.
The data stoked fresh fears among investors that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates higher for longer, especially as inflation remains stubborn.
The Nasdaq index fell by more than 4
Getty Images British actor Anthony Head has died at the age of 72.
Head first became widely known in the UK featuring in Nescafe adverts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and went on to play roles in many popular TV shows, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso and Merlin.
Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not see any point in meeting Volodymyr Zelensky after the Ukrainian leader requested face-to-face talks over ending the war between the two nations.
Zelensky sent an open letter on Thursday calling for direct negotiations with Putin, writing that it was "wrong to simply wait" for the war, which began with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, to become the focus of US attention once more
Getty Images Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant, the country's royal household has said.
Mette-Marit, who suffers from an incurable lung disease, has suspended official duties and will have the operation as soon as a donor becomes available, it said.
The princess, who married Crown Prince Haakon in 2001, has been battling the illness while facing revelations about her association with the late
Reuters Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter in an attached spacecraft after the structure suddenly started leaking more air.
Five of the seven crew were directed to go into the docked SpaceX shuttle Dragon "Freedom" on Friday afternoon and were braced for a potential evacuation.
Meanwhile, two remaining personnel - a pair of Russian cosmonauts - attempted to repair a part of the Russian segment of the ISS, where the leaks had started increasing on Monday.
The repairs were paused and the crew ordered back onto