The death toll from a stampede at a Hindu religious congregation in northern India has risen to 121. A police report said the number of people present at the function was more than triple the permitted capacity.
Farmers in southern Lebanon are wondering if white phosphorous, used by the Israeli military in cross-border clashes has contaminated their soil. Listen to Maya Gebeily on the Reuters World News podcast discussing the farmers' efforts to find out.
The plan for post-war Gaza that Israel pitched to US allies is to run the strip in cooperation with powerful local families. But there's a problem: in a place where Hamas still wields ruthless influence, none want to be seen talking to the enemy.
India has asked power companies to order equipment worth $33 billion this year to fast track capacity additions of coal-fired power in the years ahead, as the South Asian nation struggles to meet booming electricity demand, two government officials said.
Lufthansa won EU antitrust approval to buy 41% of Italy's ITA Airways for $350 million after ceding routes and slots in a deal that will boost its presence in the lucrative southern European market.
China is far ahead of other countries in generative AI inventions like chatbots, filing six times more patents than its closest rival the United States, U.N. data showed. Generative AI is exploding with more than 50,000 patent applications filed in the past decade.
Sanofi and partner Regeneron won European Union approval for wider use of their Dupixent injection in patients with a chronic lung disease, a rare case of the EU clearing a drug faster than the United States.
Online betting companies offer incentives to lure new customers such as bonus bets, which are credits that can be used for wagering. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Amid a US boom in betting online, the European companies behind FanDuel and BetMGM are using features in America that they dropped in Britain after acknowledging them as risks to gamblers.
A carpenter ant caring for the leg wound of the other ant. Bart Zijlstra/Handout via REUTERS
Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease. But humans are not alone in doing such procedures.
New research shows that some ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to improve their survival chances.
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