Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year's Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the final day for streams and sales to count before the Christmas chart is re...
The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas industries have been registered f...
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The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels....
A prolonged heatwave in the US has led to an uptick in severely burned patients who were injured after touching hot surfaces or objects. Medics in Arizona said some patients were hurt after falling onto asphalt which had been heated by th...
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been targeted by further Russian air attacks, described by one official as "exceptional in density". Ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying targets o...
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Record numbers of nurses are quitting the NHS in England, figures show. More than 40,000 have walked away from the NHS in the past year - one in nine of the workforce, an analysis by a health think tank revealed. It said many of these were often hi...
A look at the 15-year effort to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, and the pushback against it....
In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and marks the beginning of winter....
There is more at stake than just the presidency....
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The number of people killed by the new coronavirus rose by 97 on Sunday, the highest number of casualties in a day. The total number of deaths in China is now 908 - but the number of newly-infected people per day has stabilised. Across Chin...
Female characters had their biggest-ever representation in box office films last year, according to research. The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film said a record 40% of 2019's highest-grossing US movies had women...
The number of people missing in northern California's devastating wildfire has leapt to more than 600, and seven more bodies have been found, according to local authorities. The missing persons' list has doubled since earlier on Thursday. T...
Valentine's Day by the numbers...
China's annual rich list has indicated that, once again, the country has more dollar billionaires than the US, and the gap is widening. Property magnate Wang Jianlin of Dalian Wanda tops the list of 594 billionaires in the country,...
This 4th of July, we're celebrating the nation’s 240th birthday. So how exactly do Americans celebrate? To put things in perspective, here are some numbers from 2015 that might make you gasp… and a little woozy. FLAGS Fourth...
The United Kingdom voted in a referendum Thursday to leave the European Union, according to the latest numbers of counted votes. Shortly after 6:30 a.m. local time (1:30 a.m. ET) the Leave side had more than 17 million votes, exceeding the ...
A viral photo has the Internet collectively scratching its head. A debate is raging online over the number of girls in a photo shared onInstagramby Swiss photographerTiziana Vergari. The photo was posted a week ago and has...