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ReutersThe Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the biggest in the country’s history, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.As of 30 July, there were 3,605 confirmed cases including 1,587 deaths – a fatality rate of 44%. The current outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus. It was declared on 15 May 2026 and surpasses the previous biggest outbreak between 2018 and 2020, which had nearly 3,500 recorded cases of whom almost 2,300 died. There is currently no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo strain, but vaccines are being developed in the UK…
15-year-old Gabriel makes Man Utd debut in win over AtleticoManchester United fans got the opportunity to see one of the most talked about young players in academy football as JJ Gabriel made his senior debut.
Getty ImagesFLO won Best R&B/Soul Act at the 2026 MOBO Awards and received their first Grammy nomination this year”It’s kind of been like a bit of a crash course in making music,” says Stella Quaresma of making FLO’s second album, Therapy at the Club.After entering the music industry as teenagers, the British girl band say they grew to trust their own instincts during six months making their new record.Formed of Quaresma, Jorja Douglas and Renée Downer, they first broke through in 2022 with the track Cardboard Box and have since won Best R&B/Soul Act at the 2026 MOBO Awards.The group…
AFPNirmal Purja became known internationally following a 2021 Netflix documentaryRenowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 people killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan, his company has said.Sharing the news on social media, Elite Expeditions said it confirmed with “profound sadness and immense heartbreak” that Purja, 43, had died in Thursday’s avalanche. Purja, who was born in Nepal and later served in the British army, was known for scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.Pakistani officials had previously announced that the bodies of three climbers from his expedition – American Mallory…
Uefa has ‘lost confidence’ in Fifa leadership as investment plan scrappedThe governing body of European football says Fifa president Gianni Infantino has “failed to deliver” on promises he made when elected 10 years ago.3 hrs agoWorld Cup
Getty ImagesPeter Chadwick with the wife he killed, Quee Choo ChadwickPeter Chadwick had been on the run for nearly four years, charged with murdering his wife, when California police launched a podcast about the crime.He was captured in Mexico 10 months and 20 days later.Karen Schepers had been missing for more than four decades when another police force, in Illinois, debuted the first episode of a podcast last year about the cold case – and her body was found at the bottom of a river within weeks.Now Colorado investigators are hoping to bring in elusive tips about a 10-year-old unsolved…
For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.Toss in a crescendoing meteor shower and a six-planet parade on the same day, and the heavens will be overflowing with awe.Daytime darkness will descend Aug. 12 across the Iberian Peninsula close to sunset — plus slivers of Greenland and Iceland — as the sun, moon and Earth align perfectly in the sky. Starting near the North Pole before tracking south, totality will last up to two minutes and 18 seconds, an appetizer for an even…
Reuters Spanish police officers and soldiers escort a large group of migrants in Ceuta to the border to take them out of SpainSpain has condemned the “selfish, polarising and unlawful” reaction of some EU countries to the influx of about 60,000 migrants from Morocco to Ceuta. Officials say almost all those who reached the enclave on 30 July have returned, while Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Saturday that the death toll had risen to at least 67. It comes after Italy temporarily suspended the EU’s border-free Schengen arrangement with Spain, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the scenes…
Getty ImagesUS prosecutors have dropped charges against a former Olympian who had been accused of vandalising the Reflecting Pool in Washington DC, writing in court documents that the damage is now believed to be “the result of flawed installation by the contractor”.President Donald Trump had previously blamed the damage on “sick, deranged” vandals.But a document filed by prosecutors in Washington DC on Friday says new information “strongly suggests that a rushed and botched installation” job overseen by the US Department of Interior led to the damage.David Hearn, a champion canoeist, had been facing a 10-year prison sentence if found guilty…
BBCThe Great Barrier Reef might be the world’s most famous underwater ecosystem, but hidden in UK waters lies an ancient marine world you may not have heard of.Known as maerl beds, these carpets of coral-like seaweed create some of the richest habitats in the sea.And 40 years ago, while studying one such bed for her PhD, Prof Christine Maggs found a fragment of pink-striped seaweed living on maerl she had never seen before.The discovery would become a lifelong obsession and a decades-long scientific puzzle.Maerl beds may closely resemble corals but they are in fact thousands of pieces of free-living calcified…