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Hamas has launched a rocket attack on Tel Aviv, with a direct hit on a building leaving at least one person dead, Israeli media reports.

At least eight people - seven students and a teacher - have been killed in a shooting at a school in southwest Russia, with several others injured.

Hospitals in India have reported a rise in "black fungus" found in COVID-19 patients - as doctors warned people against using cow dung in the belief it will ward off the virus.

Two Israeli women have been killed by Palestinian rocket strikes, the chief of the ambulance service said, after 26 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including nine children.

There is a tension in Jerusalem of a kind not felt for five years.

Shoppers and staff at a New Zealand supermarket have been praised for their courage in trying to stop an attacker armed with a knife while waiting for police to arrive.

The death of a man in the Solomon Islands has prompted a call for the US and others to clean up some of the dangerous weapons they left behind during the Second World War.

An area of forests larger than France has regrown around the world since 2000, new data suggests.

People with a higher body mass index - BMI - are more likely to test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, a study suggests.

A doctor who treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he collapsed on a flight in Russia last year has reappeared after going missing for three days while on a hunting trip, local media has reported.