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Fire hoses looked overmatched as flames raged across the Notre Dame Cathedral's wooden roof and burned bright orange for hours. The fire toppled a 300-foot (91-meter) spire and launched baseball-sized embers into the air.

The New York-based French Heritage Society and the Go Fund Me crowdsourcing platform were among the first to offer help for Notre-Dame Cathedral that is a must-see destination for visitors to Paris from all over the world.

Marvin Hajos was killed by a cassowary, a huge bird with long claws on each foot, after he fell in the backyard of his Florida home. The cassowary remains on Hajos' property as authorities conduct an investigation into the attack.

Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, is the father of 49 children born after women visited his Rotterdam clinic where he used his own sperm instead of sperm from a chosen donor to inseminate them.

Following diplomatic pressure from the Vietnamese government, Malaysian prosecutors had dropped the murder charge against Doan Thi Huong on April 1.

A language professor has given it a name from a Hawaiian chant — Powehi — meaning 'the adorned fathomless dark creation.'

Judges said veteran Getty photographer John Moore's picture taken after Honduran mother Sandra Sanchez and her daughter Yanela illegally crossed the US-Mexico border last year showed "a different kind of violence that is psychological".

The Muslim community in Christchurch was further shaken this week when a 33-year-old man, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the name of US President Donald Trump, shouted abuse at worshippers at the Al Noor mosque.

The military will make an announcement soon, state television said as troops were deployed in Khartoum.

The Hindi website of BBC reported that one of its correspondents was also among the team that visited the "air strike site" in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bombed by the IAF in retaliation for the February 14 Pulwama terror attack in which at l...

The measles virus is highly contagious and can lead to serious complications and death. While there have been no confirmed deaths so far, 21 people have been hospitalized, with five admitted to intensive care.

With 96 percent of the votes counted, Netanyahu's right-wing Likud won 37 of Knesset seats, against 36 for centrist Blue and White, headed by Netanyahu's rival, former general Benny Gantz.

The election of Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president follows constitutional rules but goes against the demands of demonstrators, who have pushed for him and other top politicians to stand down.

Erdogan said the scale of electoral irregularities his party had uncovered meant the margin of votes between Istanbul's top two candidates, less than 20,000 in a city of 10 million voters, was too narrow for the opposition to claim victory.

The National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), in a report says that 517 people were killed in terrorist incidents in 2018. Majority 288 victims were killed in Balochistan and 138 in former tribal region.

The scandal contributed to then prime minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform losing in 2015 to the conservative opposition Law and Justice party now in power.