Neha Sharma/BBC Three successive Israeli attacks have killed at least three paramedics in southern Lebanon, including one featured in a BBC report this week, Lebanese officials say, as they accuse Israel of deliberately targeting health workers in its war against Hezbollah.
A team from the Islamic Health Association was attacked as it tried to rescue people from the site of an Israeli attack in the town of Mayfadoun, in the Nabatieh region on Wednesday,
Getty Images The president of SantaCon, an annual event in New York City in December where thousands of young people dress up as Santa Claus and drink across the city, has been charged with wire fraud.
Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York say Stefan Pildes, 50, siphoned more than $1m (£737,000) raised through the SantaCon charity for his own personal use.
"Stefan
AFP The family of the most prominent Palestinian prisoner, Marwan Barghouti, says that he has again been subjected to physical violence behind bars in Israel.
Arab Barghouti told the BBC he was "shocked and appalled" to hear from his father's Israeli lawyer that he had been assaulted three times by Israeli prison guards in the past month.
The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) said that "the allegations made are false and baseless".
Marwan Barghouti was
Kenya Wildlife Service A Chinese national has been sentenced to a year in prison for attempting to smuggle thousands of live queen garden ants out of Kenya.
The court in Nairobi on Wednesday also fined Zhang Kequn 1m Kenyan shillings (£5,713; $7,737). Judge Irene Gichobi described Zhang as not "entirely honest" and lacking in remorse.
Last month, he
EPA Fighting between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah has continued after Israel and Lebanon held direct talks in Washington aimed at easing the conflict.
On Wednesday, Israeli strikes hit two vehicles on the coastal highway south of Beirut, near the towns of Saadiyat and Jiyeh and outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.
Videos from one scene showed a burned-out van, with first responders working to extinguish the flames and recover human remains
Getty Images US President Donald Trump has threatened to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell if he does not step aside at the end of his term in May.
The two have been over Powell's reluctance to cut the central bank's interest rate, despite Trump's repeated calls.
Powell's term expires on 15 May, but he is planning to remain in post until his successor, Kevin Warsh, is confirmed by the Senate.
"Then I'll have to fire him," Trump told
Reuters At least three students and one teacher have been killed and several others injured following a shooting at a school in southern Turkey, the local governor has said.
The incident happened at Ayser Calik Secondary School in the Kahramanmaras area, local media reports.
The attacker was also killed during the incident, Kahramanmaras Governor Mukerren Unluer said.
It comes a day after 16 people were injured after an ex-student
Getty Images UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is "not going to yield" to pressure from the US president to join the conflict in Iran.
It comes after Donald Trump told Sky News that when the US asked the UK for help "they were not there". He also suggested the trade deal with the UK "can always be changed".
Starmer told the Commons: "I'
It is not unusual for President Trump to face criticism from Catholic leaders.
His hardline immigration policies, promised in his campaign and cheered on by supporters, have prompted condemnation from church leaders.
For months it has put the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in the US at odds with more right-leaning rank-and-file Catholics.
But the broad backlash in the last 48 hours, over Trump's attack on Pope
Getty Images The Duchess of Sussex will make an appearance as a guest judge on a new season of hit Australian television show MasterChef Australia.
Meghan filmed in the episode in Melbourne on Wednesday, according to broadcaster Network Ten. The show's eighteenth season is set to air on April 19.
Meghan, together with Prince Harry, are currently on the second day of a , which will see them combine visits to charitable causes