Dozens of school children were injured after a driverless ice cream truck ploughed into a crowd in Kyrgyzstan.

The country, like others in South-East Asia, is sweltering through a heat wave.

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Animals have been known to eat certain plants to alleviate stomach discomfort, but scientists had never seen one apply a makeshift bandage to heal a wound before.

A lesson from 1968 and, indeed, from the 1972 election is that campus unrest favours the Republicans.

The US Army has released an unsettling new video to lure recruits for psychological operations.

Johnson introduced the contentious new laws that mandate photo ID when voting while he was PM despite railing against the idea when he was a newspaper columnist in 2004.

Jake and Callum Robinson were on a surfing trip in Mexico when they failed to make contact with family and friends.

Three people have so far been arrested as the search continues for two Perth brothers missing in Mexico.

Turkey ends trade with Israel over escalating Gaza conflict.

The French President told The Economist that governments will need to act if Putin makes a significant breakthrough in the coming months.

The pre-dawn police crackdown at UCLA marked the latest flashpoint for mounting tensions on US college campuses over Israels conduct of the war in Gaza.

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The sight of law enforcement officers in and around a prestigious college campus is somewhat jarring, even with its history of activism.

In a mini new gold rush, young people are jumping on a viral trend that taps into a desire for financial security.

Authorities paint a picture of a network of associates, some blood relatives, travelling across Europe by bus with library cards sometimes under assumed names to scout rare Russian books.

Currently the foreign minister, Jeremiah Manele has pledged to continue the Pacific Island nations foreign policy that made it grow close to China.

Macadamia nut trees are native to Australia and were introduced to Hawaii in 1881 by a Scotsman. The nut has since become synonymous with Hawaii.

A truck driving in rural Hokkaid, Japan, has been attacked by a bear protecting its cub.

Eyewitness videos showed people wielding sticks or poles to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.

Violence erupts at US university campuses as police and pro-Palestinian protesters clash.

Health care workers are prevented from performing an abortion on a nonviable pregnancy that they know may become deadly -- until it actually becomes deadly.

Unrest at UCLA comes a day after police in riot gear stormed New Yorks Columbia University, which has become the centre of Americas student uprising over the war in Gaza.

A 14-year-old boy has been killed on his way to school in London after being allegedly attacked by a stranger with a sword.

New York City police raided Columbia University arresting dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some of whom had seized an academic building, and attempting to remove a protest encampment the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle for nearly two weeks.