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A killer whale, which captured the world’s attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be grieving again. The whale, known as Tahlequah, has lost another calf and is again pushing the body, according to the Center for…

Two people have died and 18 others were injured after a small plane crashed into a commercial building in southern California, officials say. Ten people were taken to hospital with injuries, the Fullerton Police Department said in a post on X on Thursday afternoon. Eight others were treated for injuries…

Getty Images Fans from two US universities filled a stadium in New Orleans for a highly anticipated American football game as the city reels from a New Year’s Day attack. The annual Sugar Bowl, which was scheduled to take place Wednesday, was postponed to Thursday at 15:00 local time (21:00…

New Orleans victim’s brother says family will have to deal with his death ‘every day’ Just hours before the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, Jack Bech got on a phone call with his older brother Martin – an avid outdoorsman and former football star mostly known to friends…

Las Vegas police have identified Matthew Alan Livelsberger as the man they believe to have been inside the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel on Wednesday. They say Livelsberger, an active-duty US special forces soldier, rented the vehicle and drove it from Las Vegas from…

Getty Images There were great hopes for the Northvolt battery plant Skellefteå, Sweden Heavy snow blends into white thick clouds in Skellefteå, a riverside city in northern Sweden that is home to 78,000 residents. It’s also the location of what was supposed to become Europe’s biggest and greenest electric battery…

Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates. On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to supply Central Europe with Russian natural gas. Slovakia had…

Bourbon Street in New Orleans has reopened after being closed for investigation since the deadly attack on New Year’s Day. The BBC’s Carl Nasman spoke to people about how they felt as they returned to the street where the attack took place. Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a truck through Bourbon Street…

Getty Images A US court has rejected the Biden administration’s bid to restore “net neutrality” rules, finding that the federal government does not have the authority to regulate internet providers like utilities. It marks a major defeat for so-called open internet advocates, who have long fought for protections that would…

Reuters Rosita Missoni founded the brand with her late husband Ottavio in 1953 Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous Italian knitwear label Missoni, has died aged 93. The news was confirmed by the president of Italy’s Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, who praised the brand’s iconic “multicoloured textures”. He described her…