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This is the moment an injured Ukrainian soldier behind enemy lines made his escape using an e-bike delivered by a drone. Footage released by the Rubizh Brigade, part of the national guard of Ukraine, shows the wounded soldier, known as Tanker, receiving the e-bike by drone, which he says he couldn’t ride at first. Tanker…

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a Florida prison to a new minimum-security facility in Texas, authorities have confirmed. The move comes as Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, has pressed the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction while also seeking a pardon…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced hopes for further peace talks with Ukraine – but stressed his troops were “advancing on the entire front line”, despite the threat of tougher US sanctions if a ceasefire was not agreed upon. “All disappointments arise from inflated expectations,” Putin said, in an apparent reference to Trump’s “disappointment” with…

André Rhoden-Paul BBC News Uriel Nuri Uriel Nuri was head of the carnivores team at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo A zoo worker in Jerusalem has died after being attacked by a leopard which had escaped from its enclosure. Uriel Nuri died from injuries he sustained during a “behind-the-scenes tour” for visitors on Friday morning, Jerusalem Biblical…

France has suspended its programme for receiving Palestinians fleeing Gaza. The freeze will be in place while authorities investigate a Palestinian student in France who has been accused of making antisemitic remarks online, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has said. The 25-year-old woman was on a scholarship in northern France’s city of Lille and will…

“This could be the holy grail:” Watch the Rhisotope team prepare to inject a rhino’s horn with radioactive material South African scientists have launched an anti-poaching campaign in which rhino’s horns will be injected with a radioactive material. The group, from the University of the Witwatersrand, said the process is harmless to rhinos but will…

Imogen Foulkes Geneva correspondent, BBC News Getty Images 39%? For Switzerland, this is a huge shock, and worse than the worst-case scenario – these are the highest tariffs in Europe. Globally, the fourth highest, behind only Syria, Laos, and Myanmar, (although if President Trump follows through on his 50% tariff threat then Brazil will jump…

US government US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff has for the first time visited a controversial Israel- and US-backed aid distribution site in Gaza. Witkoff said the purpose of the trip to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site was to give Trump “a clear understanding of the humanitarian situation and help craft…

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called for stronger international sanctions on Russia after a deadly attack on Kyiv killed at least 31 people. Zelensky said five children – the youngest aged two – were among the dead and 159 people had been wounded in the assault on Thursday. “No matter how much the Kremlin denies…

Social media feeds across Australia were alight with footage of what people thought were UFOs flying over Queensland and northern New South Wales on 30 July. But experts say what people actually saw was a Chinese rocket as it passed over Australia. Professor Jonti Horner was able to match the sightings from his home state…