Gabby Colenso BBC News, Cape Town Getty Images The birds are smaller than Emperor penguins and only exist in southern Africa Six key breeding areas are to be safeguarded to help save the African penguin, following a landmark court order in South Africa. Last year scientists warned that the species was declining by around 8% … Read more
Reuters Mourners on Tuesday crying over the bodies of those killed in Monday night’s airstrikes at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir Al-Balah It had started as a normal night in Gaza, with people up already having their pre-dawn meal in the holy month of Ramadan. After 50 nights of ceasefire, life in the territory had … Read more
Eight countries – six of them in Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and Lesotho – could soon run out of HIV drugs following the US government’s recent decision to pause foreign aid, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said. US President Donald Trump announced the freeze on his first day in office in January as part … Read more
German lawmakers have voted to allow a huge increase in defence and infrastructure spending – a seismic shift for the country that could reshape European defence. A two-thirds majority of Bundestag parliamentarians, required for the change, approved the vote on Tuesday. The law will exempt spending on defence and security from Germany’s strict debt rules, … Read more
Reuters Many Gazans have fled their homes against after Israel renewed air strikes Israeli fighter jets unleashed a wave of bombardment across the Gaza Strip through the night, ripping into a fragile truce that has mostly held since it came into effect in January. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overnight laid the blame at Hamas’s door … Read more
Artem Bolshakov/Getty Images The bronze statue of Molly Malone has become discoloured by people touching it Dublin’s Molly Malone statue should be protected to prevent members of the public from “violating” it by groping the sculpture’s breasts, a campaigner has said. Tilly Cripwell pointed out that the bronze artwork has been groped so many times … Read more
Milica Radenković Jeremić and Lara Owen BBC World Service Reporting fromBelgrade and London Getty Images Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Belgrade to protest systemic corruption in Serbia For a few seconds, there was only pure panic, as chaos and fear surged through the crowd at a major anti-government protest in Serbia. What started … Read more
A curfew has been imposed in parts of an Indian city in the western Maharashtra state after Hindu groups demanded the removal of the tomb of Aurangzeb, a 17th-Century Mughal emperor, sparking violence on Monday night. Vehicles were set on fire and stones were pelted in the Mahal area of Nagpur city. Police say the … Read more
Poland and the Baltic states have announced plans to withdraw from a key international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing the rising threat from Russia. In a joint statement, the defence ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland said since signing the Ottawa Treaty, threats from Moscow and its ally Belarus have “significantly increased”. It is … Read more
More than 400 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The Israeli military says it’s hitting “terror targets” across Gaza after talks to extend the ceasefire failed – it’s the biggest wave of strikes since 19 January, when the ceasefire began. Follow live updates here