The Thanksgiving travel period will see record-breaking numbers for those hitting both the roads and the skies, according to reports from several airlines and travel organizations. The American Automobile Association projected that 79.9 million tr...
Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year's Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the final day for streams and sales to count before the Christmas chart is re...
The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas industries have been registered f...
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The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels....
A prolonged heatwave in the US has led to an uptick in severely burned patients who were injured after touching hot surfaces or objects. Medics in Arizona said some patients were hurt after falling onto asphalt which had been heated by th...
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been targeted by further Russian air attacks, described by one official as "exceptional in density". Ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying targets o...
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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, took place over less than 48 hours. Customers withdrew $42 billion -- nearly a quarter of the bank's total deposits -- within a single day last week...
Record numbers of nurses are quitting the NHS in England, figures show. More than 40,000 have walked away from the NHS in the past year - one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by a health think tank revealed. It said many of these were often hi...
Cuba is completely without power after Hurricane Ian pummelled the western end of the island, its government has announced. The electrical system is experiencing total collapse, officials said, after one of the main power plants could not b...
Being turned away from a 15 or 18 rated film for not having the right identification with you might be a thing of the past. The UK Cinema Association - which includes Cineworld, Odeon, Showcase Cinemas, and Vue - are partnering with dig...
A look at the 15-year effort to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, and the pushback against it....
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and marks the beginning of winter....
Cuba has temporarily lifted import duties on food, medicine and other essentials following recent unrest. As of next Monday, there will be no limit on such goods brought in by travellers until the end of the year. Thousa...
Thousands of Cubans have joined the biggest protests for decades against the island's Communist government. They marched in cities including the capital Havana, shouting, \\\"Down with the dictatorship!\\\". Images o...
There is more at stake than just the presidency....
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Since February, California-based manufacturer CloudMinds has shipped more than 100 robots to China. Many of those have gone to hospitals, where the XR-1 provides information to patients and helps guide visitors to the right department. The ...
The number of people killed by the new coronavirus rose by 97 on Sunday, the highest number of casualties in a day. The total number of deaths in China is now 908 - but the number of newly-infected people per day has stabilised. Across Chin...