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The First Descent expedition, led by British-based ocean research institute Nekton, is set to send submersibles as deep as 3,000 metres off the Seychelles.

From an early age, instead of birthday gifts, Grace asked that donations be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. When Grace was 9 she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

More than 1,100 people have called the emergency services for urgent help, according to state premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Up to 20,000 homes are at risk of being inundated if the rains continue.

The pope arrived in Abu Dhabi on Sunday night for a three-day visit, during which he will lead a historical open-air mass for some 135,000 Catholics.

Xi last year visited villagers in a poor southwestern part of China, to press home his campaign against poverty.

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who invited the pope to the UAE, on Thursday described the pontiff as "the man of peace and love".

Friends of the Thuringian Sausage, an association that runs a museum in honour of the delicacy named after the region, want to move to a new building to be located on land where the Nazis held prisoners in a so-called subcamp in World War Two.

The 92-year-old was a symbolic figure for weekly rallies in front of the Japanese embassy that started in 1992, demanding a full, heartfelt apology from Tokyo for the horrific wartime abuse.

Officials said the 201 passengers and crew had all been escorted off the Boeing 787 jet with no serious injuries.

Oil-rich Venezuela has suffered an economic meltdown marked by hyperinflation and shortages of basic necessities that has left millions in poverty, while 2.3 million more have fled the country.

British MPs on late Tuesday voted through an amendment saying they would only support a divorce deal if a controversial 'backstop' clause to keep the Irish border open was removed.

The new announcement points to pressures caused by over-reliance on oil and gas revenues in the Central Asian nation.

The struggle for control of Venezuela intensified with the government preparing an investigation that could lead to the arrest of opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, who has called for new street protests.

The Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said that the challenges facing South Asian states will grow in 2019 because of Afghanistan's presidential election in mid-July and the Taliban's large-scale attacks

May's spokesman said she backed an amendment that called for the removal of a controversial "backstop" arrangement in her deal to keep open the border with Ireland after Brexit, in favour of "alternative arrangements to avoid a hard border".

Benny Gantz is flaunting a tough military pedigree and emerging in the polls as Netanyahu's top rival. This highlights how security rules supreme in the minds of most Israeli voters.