(BBC News) Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite, and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when, or why.
Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces.
When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, over the Indian Ocean.
But...
(BBC News) The US government has brought charges against an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Donald Trump before he was elected as the next president.
The Department of Justice on Friday unsealed an indictment against Farhad Shakeri, 51, alleging he was tasked with “providing a plan” to kill Trump.
The US government said Shakeri has not been arrested and is believed to be in Iran.
In a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan...
(BBC News) Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
The chancellor said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who heads the pro-business Free Democrats and has been part of the coalition along with Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens.
The crisis inside the coalition plunged Europe's largest economy into political chaos, hours...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Police in Mozambique have fired tear gas in the capital Maputo to disperse people protesting against the government over alleged fraud in last month’s elections.
The demonstration on Thursday was the biggest yet against the governing Frelimo party, which was declared the winner of the October 9 election, extending its 49-year rule.
Large crowds of mostly young men barricaded streets with burning tires and waved homemade signs in support of opposition leader...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Republican Donald Trump has won the US presidential election in a stunning comeback, The Associated Press news agency reports, with his projected victory in Wisconsin clearing the 270 Electoral votes needed to secure a return to the White House.
Speaking in West Palm Beach, Florida, before the latest results came in, Trump pledged to bring a “golden age” to the United States, praising what he called “the greatest political movement of all time.”
World leaders rushed to...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A fresh political storm has engulfed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the arrest of a number of people in connection with an alleged leak of classified documents from his office.
The documents in question are alleged to be Hamas military strategy documents, found by Israeli military intelligence in Gaza and subsequently manipulated by suspects within, or close to, the prime minister’s office and defence establishment.
The documents are then said to...
(BBC News) U.S. voters go to the polls today to choose their next president.
Election results have sometimes been declared within hours of the polls closing, but this year's tight contest could mean a longer wait.
In some presidential races, the victor has been named late on election night, or early the next morning. This time, the knife-edge race in many states could mean media outlets wait longer before projecting who has won.
Democrat Kamala Harris, the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week after it saw “unprecedented” pollution levels, government authorities have said.
For days, the city of 14 million people has been enveloped by smog, a mix of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade diesel fumes, smoke from seasonal agricultural burning, and winter cooling.
The air quality index, which measures a range of pollutants, exceeded 1,000 on Saturday – well above the...
(BBC News) As Spain reels from the flash floods that struck the southeast of the country this week, many are wondering why the death toll — at over 200 — is so high.
Almost all of the deaths confirmed so far have been in the Valencia region on the Mediterranean coast.
Some areas have been particularly devastated: the town of Paiporta, population 25,000, reported at least 62 deaths.
Various factors, including drivers becoming trapped in their cars, poor...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Mauritius has cut access to all social media platforms until November 11, a day after its upcoming general election.
The move on Friday came amid a wiretapping scandal, and even as the opposition raised the alarm about an alleged ploy by the governing party to avoid defeat at the polls.
The Indian Ocean island nation’s communications regulator ordered all internet service providers to suspend access to social media until November 11 in...
