Getty Images Five Italians have died in a scuba diving accident in the Maldives, the foreign ministry in Rome has said.
"The divers are believed to have died while attempting to explore caves at a depth of 50 metres (164ft)," the ministry said, adding that this happened in Vaavu Atoll.
The Maldives' military said one body had been found in a cave about 60 metres underwater, and the other four divers were believed to be also there.
It said divers
In 25 years of flying, Ian Nixon had never faced anything like the crash that left him and ten passengers stranded for hours in the Atlantic Ocean, waiting to be rescued off Florida's east coast.
On Tuesday, during what should have been a routine 20-minute flight between two islands in the Bahamas, Nixon watched one disaster unfold after another - first the navigation system, then the radio, then one engine, and
AFP via Getty Images A UN court has denied a bid by convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić to be released from jail on the grounds he is near the end of his life.
While agreeing that he was "in the final stages of his life", Judge Graciela Gatti Santana said conditions at the UN prison and its hospital in The Hague "are of such high quality that Mladi
Reuters A new type of giant long-necked dinosaur, twice the size of a tyrannosaurus rex, has been identified up by scientists from remains dug up in Thailand.
The nagatitan, the largest-ever dinosaur found in South-East Asia, weighed 27 tonnes - as much as nine adult Asian elephants - and measured 27m (88ft) in length, longer than a diplodocus. Like that dinosaur,
While El Niño forms across the tropical Pacific, forecasters look at one region in particular called the Niño3.4, monitoring a three-monthly average of the sea surface temperature compared to the long-term average.
A strong or 'super El Nińo' is when that goes above 1.5C.
Forecasts from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), NOAA and BoM are all pretty much aligned in their outcomes.
In the latest prediction from the ECMWF,
Getty Images A vessel reportedly operating as a "floating armoury" in the Gulf of Oman has been seized by Iranian military personnel, according to the maritime risk management company Vanguard.
The ship is now "bound for Iranian territorial waters", the UK's Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organisation said.
BBC Verify has checked ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic which shows the vessel - identified by Vanguard as the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan - last broadcast its location 70km (40 miles) north-east
Reuters Xi Jinping threw a grand welcome for Donald Trump on the first day of a visit that could reset ties between the rival superpowers.
The military honour guard lined up outside the Great Hall of the People to welcome Trump, complete with a gun salute and a band playing the US national anthem. The president paused twice to say hello to schoolchildren cheering with Chinese and American flags.
As he shook hands with Xi, he leaned in to pat
Nigeria's power ministry Saleh Mamman, a former Nigerian power minister, has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for laundering 33.8bn naira ($24.7m; £18.5m), a rare conviction against corrupt officials in the West African nation.
Last week, Mamman was found guilty of 12 counts, including using private firms to funnel money linked to government-funded