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There was a steady stream of boat landings throughout the day in Kherson city in southern Ukraine as the rescue efforts were ramped up to reach those stranded by floodwaters.

The breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam is most worrying for what it says about the mind of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his generals - and their capacity for dangerous escalation.

Pope Francis has had a successful operation to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall.

Football superstar Lionel Messi is to join David Beckham's club Inter Miami.

The collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine will have profound and far-reaching consequences, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calling it an "environmental bomb of mass destruction".

Passengers on a flight bound for San Francisco have been left stranded in a remote town in rural Russia after the plane suffered an engine problem.

The scale of the destruction wrought by water pouring through the destroyed Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine has been revealed in new satellite images.

People in New York are being warned to limit outdoor activity as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifts across many areas of the northeastern US.

A crocodile in Costa Rica has made herself pregnant, the first recorded instance of a "virgin birth" in the reptile species. 

Dramatic changes to the polar ice caps caused by climate change are being reflected in a new edition map of Antarctica and the Artic.