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This story contains some upsetting details Thousands could be trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital due to nearby fighting, while officials have warned of rotting bodies piling up there. Al-Shifa Hospital, which is also tackling power cuts and a lack of fuel, is “nearly a cemetery”, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The hospital’s manager said it was under a “blockade”, and that dogs had started eating corpses. The area around the hospital has seen intense fighting in recent days. US President Joe Biden said he hoped to see “less intrusive action” at the hospital, which he said “must be…

A search is under way in northern Australia after a former radio host went missing while on a solo fishing trip in crocodile-infested waters. The alarm was raised when Roman Butchaski failed to return to his camping ground on Sunday. Some of his belongings have since been found near a river on Queensland’s remote Cape York Peninsula. Mr Butchaski, known as Butch, is an avid angler and a former host of Sydney radio station 2GB’s fishing show. His former co-host Gavin Pitchford told 2GB that his friend – though a Sydney local – regularly visited the spot on the Olive…

The US Supreme Court on Monday released its first ever set of ethics rules governing its nine justices. The nine-page “code of conduct” comes as the most powerful legal body in America is under increasing scrutiny following recent news reports of gifts and holiday arrangements lavished on several of its jurists. While federal judges on lower courts have been governed by an ethical code since 1973, this marks the first time the country’s highest court has set out its own rules. The court had released a “statement on ethics principles and practices” earlier this year, but Monday’s release provides significantly…

Residents of an Icelandic town struck by hundreds of earthquakes have briefly been allowed back to their homes to collect belongings. More than 500 quakes hit the south-western Reykjanes Peninsula on Monday. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the town of Grindavik, under which most of the tremors have taken place. A volcanic eruption is still expected, scientists say, despite the quakes being weaker in recent days. Pedrag, a native Serb who has lived in Iceland for many years, was one of those who fled the town with his wife on Friday – the day a state of emergency…

It is a cricketing miracle that could sit alongside Ian Botham 1981 or Ben Stokes 2019. But instead of Headingley, this latest incredible comeback took place in the humble surroundings of the Carrara Community Centre on Australia’s Gold Coast. Club side Surfers Paradise had victory in their grasp against Mudgeeraba in the Gold Coast’s Premier League Division Three. Chasing 179, they needed just five runs from the final over with six wickets in hand to win. Mudgeeraba captain Gareth Morgan had other ideas, taking six wickets in six balls to seal the unlikeliest of victories. “It is funny, the umpire…

Could the answer to Delhi’s pollution problem lie in the clouds? Last week, as the Indian capital battled days of toxic air, the city’s environment minister said that his government was considering cloud seeding – a rain-making technique – to bring down pollution levels. The plan’s fruition will depend on getting approval from India’s Supreme Court, and possibly a number of federal ministries. If that happens, the scheme may be implemented later this month, depending on weather conditions. This isn’t the first time that cloud seeding has been suggested as a possible solution for air pollution in Delhi. But some…

King Charles is celebrating his 75th birthday with a business-as-usual approach and the launch of a project to help people facing food poverty. But it’s understood that he will be getting a birthday greeting by transatlantic phone call from his youngest son, Prince Harry. The King’s birthday plans will also see him hosting a reception for NHS nurses and midwives. Ceremonial gun salutes will mark the day, including at the Tower of London. Public service rather than glitzy partying is being emphasised in the King’s birthday engagements, although it is expected that there will be a private dinner for close…

Foreign businesses have been pulling money out of China at a faster rate than they have been putting it in, official data shows. The country’s slowing economy, low interest rates and a geopolitical tussle with the US have sparked doubt about its economic potential. All eyes will be on a crucial meeting between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden this week. But businesses appear to be already erring on the side of caution. “Anxieties around geopolitical risk, domestic policy uncertainty and slower growth are pushing companies to think about alternative markets,” says Nick Marro from the Economist Intelligence Unit…

Nepal has said it will ban China’s TikTok because its content “disturbs social harmony”. The decision comes days after the country introduced a new rule requiring social media firms to set up liaison offices in the country. TikTok, which has around a billion monthly users, has been banned by several counties including India. Earlier this year, Montana became the first US state to ban it while the UK Parliament banned it from its network. Nepal’s Telecom Authority Chair Purushottam Khanal told Reuters news agency that internet service providers had been asked to close the app. No date was given for when the ban would…

It’s still only November, but the Christmas TV adverts are coming in thick and fast, bringing a sprinkling of festivity to our screens. Many of this year’s ads are fronted by A-list stars, from Michael Bublé and Rick Astley to Sophie Ellis-Bextor. But John Lewis’s commercial, released on Thursday, instead tells the tale of a little boy and a Venus flytrap. “It will be hoping the theme of family values works,” said retail expert Catherine Shuttleworth. Charlotte Lock, customer director at John Lewis, told the BBC the retailer “asked for something that moved us on from last year and was…