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A tourist has died after falling into the sea in Tenerife. It’s believed the 53-year-old man was trying to take photographs of huge waves during a storm in Puerto de la Cruz on Wednesday afternoon. Footage posted by the emergency services showed an air ambulance attempting to rescue him as water crashed on the coastline.

The risks of the Gaza war expanding into a much bigger regional conflict had seemed to have subsided. Not any longer. Comments from Iranian and American leaders in the last 24 hours may be entirely predictable but they raise the prospects of escalation. Iran knows it’s been directly attacked in the airstrike on its embassy

An Israeli airstrike has killed three sons of Hamas’s top political leader in an attack on high-profile targets in Gaza. Hamas said four of Ismail Haniyeh’s grandchildren were also killed in the strike. The Israeli military said two of his sons, Mohammed and Hazem, were Hamas military operatives, while the third, Amir, was a cell

Athletics will become the first sport to introduce prize money at the Olympics this summer. World Athletics, the international athletics federation, says it will pay Olympic gold medal winners $50,000 (around £39,400) at the Paris games. The athletics governing body said it is setting aside $2.4m (£1.89m) to pay the gold medallists across 48 events

The Champions League quarter-finals will go ahead as scheduled amid an alleged terror threat, UEFA says. A media outlet linked to IS allegedly issued a threat concerning all four of this week’s ties. Two English clubs, Arsenal and Manchester City, are playing tonight in the Champions League quarter-finals. The Gunners will host the first leg

Yemen’s fishermen set out at dawn to take on seas where they know they could face pirates, smugglers, and now Houthi militant missile attacks. “We’re always scared,” Awad tells us as he sits on the edge of the wooden fishing boat. “Because you don’t know when you will be attacked.” The Red Sea and the

The total eclipse is making its way across the United States, after starting in Mexico. The highly-anticipated eclipse saw the Earth, the sun and the moon perfectly aligned, resulting in ‘totality’ – the moment when the face of the sun is completely blocked by the moon. The Mexican beach town of Mazatlan was the first

“The Hardest Geezer” has revealed the scariest moment from his gruelling 352-day run across the whole length of Africa. In a news conference, Russ Cook said that – out of the 16 countries he visited during his 9,941-mile journey – he was most afraid “in the Congo on the back of a motorbike, thinking I

Israel has withdrawn almost all of its troops from southern Gaza. Only one brigade remains in Khan Younis and is tasked with securing the ‘Netzarim corridor’ that divides the Gaza Strip, according to a report from The Times of Israel. The move comes six months to the day that Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis,

Ireland’s new prime minister-elect Simon Harris says Irish unity is “a legitimate aspiration” but will not be his priority as incoming Taoiseach. In his first interview as Fine Gael leader, he addressed diplomatic tensions post-Brexit, adding that he sought “closer relations” with the UK. Leo Varadkar, who is due to pass the baton on Tuesday,

The body of an Israeli hostage has been recovered in Gaza, Israel says. Elad Katzir’s body was found by special forces in the southern city of Khan Younis, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said. He was taken hostage from his home in Nir Oz, a kibbutz in southern Israel, along with his mother on 7

Police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who had sought political asylum there while being investigated on corruption charges. Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the arrest in the Ecuadorian capital on Friday night was an “authoritarian act” and a “flagrant violation of international law”. He

This wasn’t an accident. It was no mistaken misfire. The IDF cell tracking the vehicles fired lethal precision guided missiles into each car, one after the other. Through blurred night-time surveillance footage, they saw what they thought was a man carrying a gun and assumed he was a Hamas fighter. Read more: IDF releases findings

The first strike was a case of false identity; the second and then the third were “grave mistakes”. An Israeli investigation into the killing of seven aid workers, which has drawn outrage around the world, has found that incorrect assumptions, decision-making mistakes and violations of the rules of engagement had resulted in their deaths. “The

Israel has announced it is opening new routes for humanitarian deliveries into Gaza. The Ashdod Port is set to temporarily reopen, while the Erez Crossing into northern parts of the Gaza Strip will be accessible for the first time since the Hamas attacks of October 7. Israeli officials have also said they are planning to

During the first months of the war in Gaza, deaths were counted through a network of computers connecting morgues across the territory. It was a system that, in the years beforehand, had won the trust of human rights groups, the UN and the World Health Organisation. But amid repeated Israeli attacks on hospitals and chronic

A series of videos have captured the moment Taiwan was struck by its most powerful earthquake in more than two decades. Several people have died, hundreds have been injured, and work is under way to rescue dozens trapped in or beneath collapsed or damaged buildings. The island’s earthquake monitoring agency said Wednesday morning’s quake was

A strong earthquake has struck off the coast of southwestern Japan – with power outages and people trapped in buildings in parts of Taiwan. Tsunami warnings were issued after the quake – which had an estimated magnitude of 7.7 – with residents in coastal areas of Okinawa urged to evacuate after it struck at 7.58am

Three British aid workers were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) has said. Nationals from Poland and Australia were also killed, as well as a dual citizen of the US and Canada – and a Palestinian who was driving the car they were all travelling in. The volunteers were

Three students have been shot and wounded in a shooting at a school in Finland, police say. All those involved were aged 12, police said – including the suspected attacker, who has been detained and taken into custody. Officers were called to the incident at Viertola school in Vantaa just after 7am UK time. The