The Fun of Travel (thefunoftravel.com) With its wide floors, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and a ready audience, the underground passage connecting a train station to Singapore's iconic Gardens by the Bay had served as a practice ground for aspiring dancers for years.
Until 1 January, when they showed up as usual only to find the mirrors frosted.
Hundreds of commuters and tourists walk through the spacious tunnel every day, many of
Alice Cuddy Senior international reporter, Nabi Chit
Reuters Dozens more people have been killed in Lebanon in major Israeli air and ground operations, as the war with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah continues to escalate.
Overnight, one Israeli operation in a town in the eastern Bekaa Valley - a focal point of the rising hostilities - saw at least 41 people killed and 40 injured, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Three Lebanese soldiers were among
At least six people have died and more than a dozen others injured after tornadoes struck Michigan and Oklahoma, in severe storms that swept across parts of the US.
Officials said four people were killed in southern Michigan and two died in Oklahoma on Friday, with rescue workers continuing to assess the damage.
The storms uprooted trees, downed power lines, damaged buildings and ripped the roofs off some houses on Friday.
The National Weather Service (NWS) said the severe weather could continue
Thomas Mackintosh and
Olivia Ireland
Reuters Rapper Balendra Shah has defeated the former Nepalese Prime Minister Sharma KP Oli in the country's general election.
Nepal's Election Commission confirmed on Saturday that Shah, 35, received 68,348 votes compared to Oli's 18,734 to unseat the former leader in his parliamentary constituency.
Thursday's general election - the first since violent youth-led protests toppled the government
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Iran will continue to defend itself if the "aggression from the American and Israeli side continues", the Iranian ambassador to the UK has told the BBC.
While Iran's president on Saturday apologised to its Gulf neighbours and promised to stop attacks, Seyed Ali Mousavi told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg their policy remained to "defend themselves".
After days of strikes across the Middle East caused enormous disruption and damage in many different
Reuters At least 23 people have been killed in Nairobi after heavy rain overnight caised severe flooding in Kenya's capital city.
Police said about 30 people had been rescued but many others drowned after being swept into rivers - some have been electrocuted.
Kenya's military has been deployed to help people trapped inside their cars as police described widespread damage to properties as well as road closures.
Several
Reuters At least seven people including children have been killed and several others injured after a Russian airstrike hit an apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Regional governor Oleg Synegubov said the missile damaged a five-storey residential building on Saturday morning. He added that rescue workers are clearing up debris.
The latest overnight attacks triggered air alerts across Ukraine - including in Dnipropetrovsk and in Zaporizhzhia.
Russia's defence
Caroline Hawley World affairs correspondent
Getty Images When Hamid heard news of the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei a week ago today, he felt a wave of euphoria and took his wife and daughter into the street outside his home in Tehran to celebrate.
For the next few days, as US and Israeli bombs slammed into buildings across the capital, the family went onto the roof
Reuters Swiss voters go to the polls this weekend to decide whether to reduce sharply the annual licence fee for their national broadcaster.
The fee for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation has already been cut in recent years but currently costs 335 Swiss francs (£320; $435) per household a year. That is higher than in neighbouring Germany (£19