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By Hugo Bachega in Beirut and Aleks Phillips in London, BBC News A man inspects the damage to a building after an Israeli strike in the southern town of Kfour, in the Nabatiyeh district on 17 August. Photo: MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP An Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon has killed 10 people, Lebanese officials say, in one of the deadliest attacks in the current violence along the Lebanon-Israel border. The building hit, in the city of Nabatieh, was housing Syrian refugees, the Lebanese Health Minister, Firass Abiad, told the BBC. Israel said it had targeted a Hezbollah weapons depot, which was denied by the owner of the facility. In response Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia and political Lebanese group, fired a barrage of rockets, targeting a kibbutz in northern Israel and anothe...

Strapper Donna Fisher parades Australian racehorse Black Caviar in the mounting yard for the last time during her farewell at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne in April 2013. Photo: AFP / Paul Crock Champion racehorse Black Caviar has died a day before her 18th birthday. A statement on Saturday on behalf of Black Caviar's owners announced the death. The Australian star captivated the nation and retired in 2013 with 25 wins from 25 starts, taking AU$7,953,936 (NZ$8,762,443) in prize money. "She was a remarkable horse who gave us all the ride of a lifetime and wonderful memories," trainer Peter Moody said in the statement. Moody later revealed the cause of death was laminitis, a painful disease of the foot that eventually progresses to a point that a horse can no longer walk. "She had a m...

By Ana Faguy, BBC News Graceland Memphis Tennessee Photo: By PaddyBriggs - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15041528 A Missouri woman is accused of trying to defraud Elvis Presley's family of millions of dollars and steal the family's ownership interest in Graceland, the US singing legend's family home. Lisa Jeanine Findley, who used a variety of aliases, was arrested for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to conduct a fraudulent sale of Graceland, located in Memphis, Tennessee home. Findley, 53, was federally charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft and was expected to appear in court Friday. If convicted, she could face up to 20 years in prison. The Presley family has not publicly commented on the charges. The US Justice Department claims Fi...

By Jonathan O'Callaghan, BBC A sudden solar superstorm is thought to be behind a devastating bombardment of high-energy particles that happened around 14,000 years ago. (File photo: A solar eruption captured by astronomers in 2010.) Photo: NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Centre/ Solar and Heliospheric Observatory The Sun is going through a period of high activity, but it is nothing compared to an enormous solar event that slammed into our planet 14,000 years ago. If one were to occur today, the effect on Earth could be devastating. The oldest trees on Earth date back a whopping 5000 years, living through all manner of events. They have stood through the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the birth of Christianity, the European discovery of the Americas and the first Moon landing. Trees ca...

A helicopter with water in the fight to put out fires ravaging Turkey. Photo: Facebook / Bekir Karacabey A fire raging on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula may have unearthed the remains of fallen Anzac soldiers, the Returned and Services Association says. The wildfire - one of a number of large blazes that damaged large swathes of the country this week - was brought under control on Friday (local time), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said. Images of the site in northwest Turkey showed soot-blackened gravestones in a scorched garden looking out over the Aegean Sea, the Associated Press reported. The RSA's Mark Compain said drone video of the fire damage looked similar to another wildfire there in 1994, which unearthed soldiers' remains. "Bones, you know, littered the area that I w...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff wave as they depart from Philadelphia International Airport on 6 August, 2024. Photo: Brendan Smialowski / POOL / AFP Vice-President Kamala Harris has had to speedily re-introduce herself to US voters, who are now having to size her up as a potential commander-in-chief, instead of Joe Biden's deputy. And during the biggest moment of Harris's career so far - the Democratic convention in Chicago - they will also get to know the family members who will stand beside her, as well as those who helped her get there. Unlike her rival Donald Trump, Harris has only been married once and was a step-parent. Here are the members of her big, modern family. Doug Emhoff, husband Harris met her now-husband, Los Angeles entertain...

Junior doctors in India hold placards in a government hospital, calling for justice for a doctor who was raped and killed, and demanding safety in the hospital, on 11 August. Photo: AFP/ Sudipta Das Hospitals and clinics across India are turning away all patients except emergency cases on Saturday as medical professionals start a 24-hour shutdown to protest the brutal rape and murder of a doctor in the eastern city of Kolkata. More than one million doctors were expected to join the strike, paralysing medical services across the world's most populous nation. Hospitals said faculty staff from medical colleges had been pressed into service for emergency cases. The strike, which began at 6am local time (0030 GMT), cut off access to elective medical procedures and out-patient consultations, ...