Savannah Guthrie returns to NBC's Today show, as search for mother goes on

NBC via Getty Images Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie on the Today show set in June 2023. Savannah has long light brown hair and is wearing an orange sleeveless shirt and colourful floral trousers. Nancy has short brown hair and is wearing a blue top with a long necklace NBC via Getty Images
Savannah Guthrie and mother Nancy Guthrie in 2023

US television presenter Savannah Guthrie has returned to NBC's Today show, telling her co-anchors it was "good to be back", as the search for her mother continues.

It was her first appearance in the studio since 30 January, two days before her 84-year-old mother Nancy was reported missing.

Her co-anchors noted on Monday that many fans were standing outside the studios on a chilly New York


Emergency jabs after 100 children die of suspected measles in a month in Bangladesh

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Measles is suspected to have killed more than 100 people, mostly children, across Bangladesh since 15 March

Bangladesh has launched an emergency vaccination campaign after a fast-spreading measles outbreak is suspected of killing more than 100 people, mostly children, in what may be the country's most lethal wave of the disease in recent history.

The campaign, which began on Sunday, comes amid more than 7,500 suspected measles cases since 15 March, according to

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Nigerian army rescues 31 held after Easter church attack

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An army statement said the attackers had suffered "significant casualties" (file photo)

Thirty-one civilians held hostage following a Sunday morning church attack in north-west Nigeria have been rescued, the army has said.

Five others were killed as gunmen targeted Easter celebrations at a church in Ariko, Kaduna state, according to a statement from the security forces. A local church official had earlier put the number of dead at seven.

The army said soldiers engaged the attackers in a "

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US Secret Service investigates reports of gunfire near White House

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The US Secret Service is investigating gunfire heard near the White House early on Sunday morning.

Officers responded to reports of gunfire in the area around Washington DC's Lafayette Park just after midnight local time (04:00 GMT) and conducted a search of the park, just north of the president's residence, and the surrounding area, the agency said.

No suspect was located and no injuries were reported, the Secret Service said. The agency and its partners are looking


'I adore her now': Mother learns to cope with child's autism in a country with little help

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Martha is now able to smile with her daughter Rachael, but things were much darker two years ago

Martha Ongwane looks adoringly at her bouncy, giggling four-year-old, unable to believe that just two years ago she had wanted to kill her.

Non-verbal, biting and unable to sit still, her daughter Rachael, who had been diagnosed with autism, had slowly overwhelmed Martha leaving her desperate and depressed.

She was shunned by her neighbours in the east African country of Malawi, who blamed her for

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Spain's huge pork industry seeks salvation from swine fever threat

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Spain's pig farmers have seen the price of pork fall sharply as a result of a swine flu outbreak

Jordi Saltiveri gazes across his farmland, on which he keeps 8,000 pigs, and remembers the day late last year when the news emerged that African Swine Fever (ASF) had been detected in Spain.

"I felt sad, angry, impotent," he says. "Once it's known that a country is positive for ASF, other countries will stop importing its

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The 40 minutes when the Artemis crew loses contact with the Earth

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Nasa/Reid Wiseman A picture of the Earth from space, which centres the planet against the dark background of space. It's a round blue planet. Clouds can be seen and a thin green aurora at the top. Nasa/Reid Wiseman
Earth as seen from the Orion capsule in a new image taken last week

No-one will have been further from home than the Artemis astronauts.

But as the Earth shrinks ever smaller in their rear-view mirror, they've had a constant connection with mission control in Houston, Texas. The calm words from the Nasa team have given the crew a comforting link with home.

That link is about to be

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Two protests, two elections: How Nepal's Gen Z succeeded where Bangladesh's stumbled

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Supporters of Nepal's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) were celebrating last month upon hearing the news of their candidates' victories

Last month, as Nepal inaugurated its new prime minister Balendra Shah, along with a parliament stacked with youthful lawmakers, Bangladeshi activist Umama Fatema felt a pang of disappointment as she watched from afar.

Fatema was among the thousands of Gen Z protesters in Bangladesh who took to the streets in 2024. Like their Nepalese counterparts, they brought down their government in explosive demonstrations.

But

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'We are at the edge of a battlefield': BBC reports near Strait of Hormuz

The BBC's Orla Guerin travels to the edge of the critical waterway that Iran has put a stranglehold on.

Trump issues expletive-laden threat to Iran over Hormuz Strait blockage

Reuters Smoke rises after strikes on the Mahshahr Petrochemical Zone in Bandar Mahshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. Two flags flutter on poles in the foreground on the side of a road with the attacked plant behind Reuters
Israel has attacked civilian infrastructure over the last few days

US President Donald Trump has published an expletive-laden post on social media in which he threatened to destroy Iran's power plants and bridges if it failed to meet his Tuesday deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping.

He repeated an earlier threat to unleash "hell" but told US media there was a "good chance" of a deal being reached with Tehran.

Iran mocked his ultimatum, dismissing it as "helpless, nervous and stupid"

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