SpaceX has launched its mission to bring back two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June. The Dragon capsule, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday. The pair’s mission at the space station had only been expected to last about … Read more
Reuters Michael Fortin was at the heart of Hollywood’s golden age of streaming. The actor and aerial cinematographer turned his hobby of flying drones into a profitable business in 2012 just as the streaming wars were taking off. For a decade, he was flying high above film sets, creating sleek aerial shots for movies and … Read more
Israeli strikes on Friday, which are now known to have killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, concluded a week of Israeli strikes on southern areas of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has been analysing numerous videos shot from multiple vantage points to investigate the incident. Lebanese officials say 11 people were killed and … Read more
David Hester inspects damages of his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on September 28, 2024. Chandan Khanna | Afp | Getty Images Hurricane Helene is ravaging communities across the southeastern United States as mass flooding and brutal winds descend on Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. As of … Read more
Goktay Koraltan / BBC Madina Mustafa Ali (right) says she and her seven-month-old baby Amir will be staying on Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square as they have nowhere else to go Lebanon is a country that knows war all too well. And it is not eager for more. It still bears the scars of 15 years of … Read more
On a brutal day for Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the institution he heads for a spectrum of sins: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and … Read more
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe. Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party … Read more
Reuters Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the long–standing leader of Hezbollah, is a major escalation in its war with the Lebanese militant group. It has, potentially, brought the region one step closer to a much wider and even more damaging conflict, one that pulls in both Iran and the US. So where is it likely … Read more
Aerial footage reveals the scale of damage caused by the strongest storm on record to hit Florida’s Big Bend. Hurricane Helene is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States with wind gust speeds of 140 mph (225 km/h) and heavy rain. The storm made landfall in Florida overnight on Thursday … Read more
EPA Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described Hassan Nasrallah as “a path and a school of thought” Iran’s supreme leader has said the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “will not go unavenged”, a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of mourning in Iran in … Read more