2023 was a year of record-breaking heat, devastating storms and floods, deepening droughts and raging wildfires. These events showed how climate change is affecting the global water cycle and our livelihoods.

Cape Canaveral: A crippling fuel leak forced a US company on Tuesday to give up on landing a spacecraft on the moon.

Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, Facebook, and Instagram, has unveiled his latest passion – raising cows in style on his vast estate in Hawaii. Zuckerberg, who already owns a portion of Kauai island, announced on Instagram that he is raising Wagyu and Angus cattle at Ko'olau Ranch on the island with the goal of producing some of the highest-quality beef globally.

Security camera video from a West Bank village shows a young man standing in a central square when he is suddenly shot and drops to the ground. Two others rushing to his aid are also hit, leaving a 17-year-old dead, moments before Israeli military jeeps roll in.

As of Wednesday, 203 deaths were reported following the 7.6 magnitude quake that slammed the western coastline of Japan on New Year's. Seven of them were at evacuation centers, where rescued people died from injuries and sickness.

Armed men have broken into the set of a public television channel in Ecuador as it broadcast live and threatened people as the country reels from a series of attacks after the government imposed a state of emergency in the wake of the apparent escape of a powerful gang leader from prison.

Paris: France saw its youngest-ever prime minister and first openly gay one named on Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term amid growing political pressure from the far right.

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, the primary medical facility in the governorate of Deir el-Balah, has faced severe disruption as a result of intensified bombing, leading to the evacuation of both medical staff and approximately 600 patients. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) reported the concerning situation after visiting the hospital on Sunday.