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Mourners at the funeral of an Ecuadorian woman were startled to discover she was still alive. Bella Montoya, 76, was declared dead last week following a suspected stroke.

Artificial-intelligence experts generally follow one of two schools of thought - it will either improve our lives enormously or destroy us all. And that is why this week's European Parliament debate on how the technology is regulated is so important.

Amritsar, a north Indian city of two million people, is famous for many things: delectable cuisine, its historical old town and the spectacular Golden Temple – the most significant shrine of the Sikh religion.

An Essex photographer who turned a "passion project" into a full-time job that has taken him around the world said it had been a "truly amazing adventure".

In the darkest corner of a grand museum that looks like a neo-classical palace lies a not-so-secret room. It is filled with statues of Congolese people, which have been regarded as racist, that were once part of the permanent exhibition.

When Elias Stadiatis descended into the indigo-blue water, he had a normal day of searching for sponges ahead of him. Weighed down in a copper diving suit, surrounded by a tangle of breathing tubes, Stadiatis eventually reached the seafloor.

BBC disinformation and social media correspondentA UK conspiracy theory newspaper sharing calls for trials and executions of politicians and doctors has links with the British far-right and a German publication connected to a failed coup attempt, the BBC can reveal.

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Dozens of migrants have been stranded for months on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean after being rescued from their struggling fishing boat.

Four children have been found alive in Colombia's Amazon jungle more than a month after the plane they were travelling on crashed.

There's an elderly Scottie dog with a walking stick. Naturally, he is considering the skateboard in front of him – and beyond it, a skate ramp.

The biggest ruby ever to come to auction has been sold in New York for a record sum of $34.8m (£28m). Sotheby's, which auctioned the 55.22-carat gem, described it as a "once-in-a-lifetime" jewel.

Tiny bones from prehistoric birds found at a birdwatching site in northern Israel have been identified as 12,000-year-old flutes, researchers say. Seven wing bones from coots and teals were found to have holes bored into them, which mimicked the sound of birds of prey when tested on replicas.

As soon as he enters the courtroom, Oleg Orlov makes his feelings about this trial crystal clear. The veteran Russian human rights defender opens his briefcase and takes out a book. He holds it up to the TV cameras. The title is End of the Regime.

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.BBC News, Washington DCFormer President Donald Trump has been charged with mishandling hundreds of classified documents, including about US nuclear secrets and military plans.

The digital nomad has become an iconic character of the modern remote-work era. The words often conjure the image of a professional writer or tech worker with a computer, meandering through the streets of a picturesque foreign city, or tapping away at a keyboard in a beachfront café.

In the 1500s, the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder produced a painting about people's indifference to distant suffering. Called Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, a copy of the original that's now on display in Brussels shows a farmer ploughing his field in the foreground.

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Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson has died at the age of 93. He was one of the driving forces of a movement to increase the influence of the religious right in US politics.

Several children have been stabbed in an attack in a park near Lake Annecy, in France's south-east, the interior minister says. Gerald Darmanin confirmed the perpetrator had been arrested by police.

Women who are groped on trains in East Asia face the further threat of their assault being filmed and uploaded for sale online. In a year-long investigation, the BBC World Service's investigative unit, BBC Eye, has gone undercover to unmask the men cashing in on sexual violence.

The first case of a crocodile who made herself pregnant has been identified at a zoo in Costa Rica. She produced a foetus that was 99.9% genetically identical to herself.

The first thing you notice about Apple's Vision Pro headset is that it's fairly comfortable - as much as wearing a pair of giant ski goggles on your face can possibly be.

Warning: this article contains details that some readers may find distressing. Days after their rape, Megumi Okano says, they already knew the attacker would get away scot-free.

The ongoing debate about tipping culture in the United States has been reignited with the recent news that employees at the first-ever unionised Apple Store in the US are proposing asking for tips.