(BBC News) Europe's Euclid telescope is ready to begin its mission to help us understand the greatest mysteries in the Universe.
Exquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities to be exceptional.
Over the next six years, Euclid will survey a third of the heavens to get some clues about the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.
These unknown "influencers" appear to control the shape and expansion of everything that is out there.
Researchers concede, however,...
(BBC News) Ukraine's military chiefs are facing growing criticism over a recent Russian missile strike that is believed to have caused heavy Ukrainian casualties.
Ukrainian media and Russian military bloggers say more than 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed at Friday's award ceremony near the southern frontlines.
Ukraine's military has not yet given casualty figures of what it says was a "tragedy" in the Zaporizhzhia region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the incident "could have been avoided."
"Criminal proceedings have been...
Summary of today’s news out of Garza courtesy of BBC News:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there will be no temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza until all Israeli hostages are released.
He gave a televised address after talks with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who has called for humanitarian pauses in the fighting to help protect civilians.
Israel has struck an ambulance in Gaza it said was being used by Hamas operatives.
The Hamas-run health...
(BBC News) Donald Trump's two eldest sons took the stand in a New York court, testifying in a civil fraud trial that threatens to engulf the family's property empire.
Prosecutors say Eric and Donald Trump Jr played key roles in the Trump Organization's efforts to exaggerate its wealth and falsify records.
In court, the brothers denied wrongdoing and sought to shift the blame onto the company's accountants.
Their sister Ivanka is expected to testify later this month.
The judge...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) President Joe Biden has voiced support for a humanitarian “pause” to Israel’s war in Gaza as the United States presses to evacuate all Americans trapped in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
“I think we need a pause,” Biden said during a campaign speech on Wednesday, after being interrupted by a protester who urged for an immediate ceasefire.
When asked what a pause meant, Biden said it was “time to get the prisoners out”...
Today's summary of events courtesy of BBC News:
Israel's military has said that its jets carried out an attack in the Jabalia area of Gaza.
The IDF says the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and caused the collapse of Hamas's underground infrastructure.
The Hamas-run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed; pictures from the scene show craters and levelled buildings.
Jabalia is in northern Gaza, an...
(BBC News) Israel has urged Russia to protect "all its citizens and all Jews" after a mob stormed a Dagestan airport reportedly targeting people arriving from Tel Aviv.
Video footage apparently from the scene shows an angry crowd running in the airport in Makhachkala, shouting antisemitic slogans.
Some of the crowd run onto the runway and surround aircraft there.
Russia's aviation agency said the situation was under control after authorities had arrived on the scene.
Rosaviatsia added that...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized for a post in which he cast blame on the country’s security services for failing to anticipate Hamas’s October 7 attack, saying he was “wrong” to make such comments at a time when unity is paramount.
In a social media post late on Saturday, Netanyahu took a dig at his own intelligence services, saying they had failed to warn him of a looming Hamas...
(BBC News) A man suspected of killing 18 people in a shooting in Maine has been found dead after a three-day manhunt, police say.
"The suspect in Wednesday night's shootings has been located and is deceased," the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook.
The news comes hours after police lifted a shelter-in-place order for the normally quiet community.
Among the dead are a grandfather and four deaf locals, ranging in age from 14 to 76.
It is...
(BBC News) Chinese property developer Evergrande owes more than $325 billion.
For two years, the company has been lurching from crisis to crisis, repeatedly failing to make payments on its multi-billion-dollar loans.
Its billionaire chairman is under police surveillance, its shares are practically worthless, and more than one million people in China are waiting for their homes to be completed. On Monday, a court in Hong Kong could open a new chapter in the crisis by...
