A killer whale mother who carried her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent show of grief has given birth to a new calf, scientists have said.

A flight tracker shows the route of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (25 December).

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Babies die from hypothermia as temperatures plummet in makeshift camps

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Interim administration says security forces ambushed while ‘performing their tasks of maintaining security and safety’

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South Korea's main opposition party said it would introduce a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Thursday and hold a vote on Friday, a move that could deepen the country's constitutional crisis triggered by a short-lived martial law.

Ko, once a rising star in Taiwan politics, is accused of accepting half a million dollars in bribes.

The motion comes less than two weeks after parliament voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol.

At least 10 people, including five journalists, have reportedly been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, while a three-week-old baby girl froze to death while staying in a tent camp.

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, Damascus, says the ordeal they experienced haunts them to this day

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Civil unrest over disputed presidential election result continues

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Indonesia and Thailand are marking 20 years since a tsunami caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people in one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.

An organizer of a Christmas fair in Mexico was shot to death outside of a church during the Christmas Eve festivities Tuesday. Martin Ramirez Ruiz, board president of the Christmas fair in the state of Guerrero’s capital, Chilpancingo, was killed alongside another man in a targeted attack, according to the Associated Press. Nativity scene ceramics...

It used to be considered treason in France - but now, alcohol-free wine is here to stay.

The driver of the vehicle is thought to have lost control after suffering a medical emergency

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The possibility that a power cable under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia has been sabotaged is being investigated after it stopped working on Christmas Day.

A BBC reporter looks back to the day in 2004 when the tsunami hit while she was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

The clash took place with supporters of the ousted leader in Tartous, a stronghold of his Alawite sect.

A biodiversity hotspot has become the stomping ground of poachers.

If a winner is drawn this week, they’ll win the fifth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history

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Syrian officials say 14 of its forces, part of the group which toppled Bashar al Assad's regime, have died in clashes with supporters of the ousted dictator.