Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent Getty Images Flames rise near the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital An Israeli strike has destroyed the intensive care and surgery departments of the main medical facility in Gaza City, Hamas has said. Video posted online appeared to show huge flames and smoke rising from Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after missiles hit a two-storey…

Chimpanzee reaches for baby – Sedgwick County Zoo / SWNS A heartwarming union was captured at a Kansas zoo this week when a chimpanzee mother met her baby for the first time 14 hours after she gave birth via C-section. Named Mahale, the 30-year-old primate at The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita gave birth to…

Officers are continuing to search for a driver and two passengers after a woman was hit by a van on a golf course following a police chase. Police said the woman, aged in her 60s, remained in a critical but stable condition after the collision at Aston Wood Golf Club, Little Aston, on Friday morning.…

University of Maryland – released The University of Maryland announced that the beloved Muppet, Kermit the Frog, will deliver the university’s 2025 commencement address to graduates and their families on May 21. After a sold-out visit to campus last year as part of the Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series, the legendary frog returns from…

Andrew Harding Reporting fromParis, France BBC Rick (left) covered up the US flag logo on his baseball cap before venturing out in Paris Strolling in bright sunshine across the immaculately raked gravel of Paris’s Tuileries gardens, Barbara and Rick Wilson from Dallas, Oregon, were not exactly in disguise. But earlier that morning, on their very…

Prehistoric stone tool cores on display from the cave – credit, Sara Watson SWNS In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of Africa, thousands of stone tools made by early humans are revealing connections between prehistoric peoples of the continent. Archaeologists that made the discovery called it an “important” find that hints…

André Rhoden-Paul BBC News Shireen Jordan BBC Weather presenter PA Media People took to the River Cam in kayaks and paddleboards in Cambridge The UK could see its hottest day of the year so far on Friday, with temperatures of 24C forecast in parts of the country. South and south-eastern England are expected to see…

Photo by Milivoj Kuhar on Unsplash In the Belgian town of Leuven, squads of “urban miners” pick through condemned buildings to ensure that any loads of lumber, bricks, tiles, or stones that may have a second life elsewhere are given that chance. Trucked off to the “Materialenbank,” they await a buyer willing to give these…

Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent in Washington•@awzurcher EPA Donald Trump announced a massive tariff plan last week that would have upended the global economic order as well as long-established trading relationships with America’s allies. But that plan – or at least a significant part of is – is on ice after the president suspended higher…

– credit, Museum of the History of Kamień Land On a beach in Northern Poland, buried treasure has been found. A beautiful, intricately inlaid dagger from the Bronze Age, perhaps once used in ceremony by a “solar cult” was dug up by a pair of metal detectives from the area. Jacek Ulkowski and Katarzyna Herdzik…