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Google’s First Space Data Centre Satellite Answers from Orbit — with a Haiku

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An Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, pictured during an earlier outbreak.

Congo’s Ebola Death Toll Passes 5,000 as Outbreak Spreads Across Three African Regions

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Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town, with Table Mountain behind the stands.

Rabada Fastest to 350 Test Wickets as South Africa Thrash Australia to Top World Rankings

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Afghan evacuees boarding a US military transport aircraft at Kabul airport during the 2021 evacuation.

Trump Administration Plans to Deport More Than 150 Afghans to Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan

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Independence Square in Dakar, Senegal, with the port and the island of Gorée in the background.

Senegal Opens Africa’s First Olympic Event as Dakar 2026 Youth Games Begin

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A close-up of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, the species that spreads dengue fever.

Bangladesh Dengue Deaths Hit 418 as October Becomes Deadliest Month of 2026

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The United States Capitol building at dusk in Washington, DC, file photo.

US Midterm Campaign Enters Final Weekend as Early Voting Nears Record 50 Million

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A street in Laayoune, the largest city in Western Sahara, in 2011.

Rival US and Russian Vetoes Leave Western Sahara UN Mission Without a Mandate as It Expires

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Virgin Media O2 to Cut Thousands of Jobs in Sweeping Shake-Up, Sky News Reports

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The July Column at Place de la Bastille in Paris, the starting point protesters had sought for Saturday's march.

France’s Top Court Upholds Ban on Central Paris Protest Route as Halloween Marches Begin

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A child with a measles rash, photographed during a measles epidemic in Guinea in 2009 (file photo).

US Measles Cases Climb to 4,852 as CDC Reports 264 More Infections

Editorial Desk17 hours ago02 mins

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,852 measles cases as of 29 October, up 264 on its previous update, with 511 people hospitalised and most cases among people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown.

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Parched, cracked earth after a prolonged drought.

Climate Change Is a Growing Global Health Emergency, Lancet Countdown Warns

Editorial Desk1 day ago1 day ago03 mins

Heat was linked to a record 710,000 deaths in 2023, with more than 70% attributable to human-caused climate change, according to the 2026 Lancet Countdown report, whose authors are calling for climate change to be formally recognised as a global health emergency.

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