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This picture taken from Lebanon's southern city of Tyre shows a cloud of smoke erupting following an Israeli air strike on the village of Deir Qanoun on 14 October 2024. Photo: AFP / Kawnat Haju Lebanon's health ministry said at least 21 people died Monday in a rare Israeli strike on a northern Christian-majority village, far from Hezbollah strongholds, with DNA tests being conducted to identify body parts. A Lebanese security official told AFP the building "housed families displaced from Lebanon's south, and was targeted shortly after a man had arrived in a car". He requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. "The Israeli enemy strike on the village of Aito ... killed in a preliminary toll 21 people and injured eight. DNA tests are being conducted to determine the identity of bod...

By Elizabeth Wagmeister and Kara Scannell, CNN American rapper, record producer and record executive Diddy (Sean Love Combs, also known by his stage names Puff Daddy or P. Diddy) arrives at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Photo: Image Press Agency / NurPhoto via AFP At least half a dozen new lawsuits have been filed against musician and producer Sean Combs, accusing him of sexual assault against men, women and a 16-year-old boy. The suits were all filed anonymously by John Doe and Jane Doe plaintiffs in federal court in the Southern District of New York. The lawsuits range in allegations that in some instances include rape, sexual assault, and the drugging of drinks. At least two of the alleged assaults took place at Combs' White P...

By Sergio Queiroz and Diego Vara, Reuters Palaeontologist Rodrigo Temp Muller examines a dinosaur fossil from the Triassic period in 2019. Photo: AFP - CARL DE SOUZA Scientists in Brazil have announced the discovery of one of the world's oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain the rise of the dinosaurs. Named Gondwanax paraisensis, the four-legged reptile species was roughly the size of a small dog with a long tail, or about one metre long and weighing between 3 and 6 kilograms the scientists said in a statement on Monday. The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of ...

By Will Dunham, Reuters Europa. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute NASA has launched a spacecraft from Florida on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be lurking beneath its thick outer shell of ice. The US space agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket under sunny skies. The robotic solar-powered probe is due to enter orbit around Jupiter in 2030 after journeying about 2.9 billion kilometres in five and a half years. The launch had been planned for last week but was put off because of Hurricane Milton. It is the largest spacecraft NASA has built for a planetary mission, at about 30.5 me...