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A software error coupled with a radar failure led to the loss of NASA's first Venus probe.

Shabina Bano says she did not know if her family would survive when Friday's quake struck.

Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease is, by all accounts, pretty awful: A person with the disease hosts a parasitic worm that forms a painful blister under the skin that eventually bursts, allowing the worm to emerge and lay its eggs in water. Those afflicted don't just endure pain (although there's plenty of that); they also run the risk of secondary infection and permanent paralysis, and there are economic consequences to the disease, too.

President Joe Biden will mark the 22nd anniversary in Alaska on his way back from Vietnam.

At least 26 people, mostly women and children died when a boat carrying more than 100 farmers capsized early Sunday in north-central Nigeria, the region's second boat tragedy in three months, authorities said.

French prosecutors have opened an investigation following the incident in Bordeaux at the weekend.

Chris Heaton-Harris says Leo Varadkar's recent comments on reunification were unhelpful to Stormont talks.

Mounting climate risks, illustrated by the extreme heat, wildfires and floods that ravaged parts of Europe this summer, could hurt the region's economy as soon as this year, the European Commission warned Monday.

More sightings of Danelo Cavalcante, including one of him clean shaven, are made outside police perimeter.

It is thought unlikely ex-Pakistan international Khalid Latif will serve any time in jail.

The five children were taken by police in an afternoon raid, Sara Sharif's grandfather tells the BBC.

The storm causes severe flooding in eastern Libya after killing a dozen people in Europe last week.