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BBC Scrolling through Zara’s transactions shows she has spent thousands of dollars on TikTok. Zara, not her real name, is in her 20s, lives in the US and has Somali roots. She became obsessed with the platform’s live battle feature – which sees two influencers verbally spar and sometimes mock each other as they solicit…

Rescue operations under way after deadly flash flooding in Spain Spain is enduring its worst flooding disaster in decades, with at least 95 people dead and dozens more missing, after huge rains swept the eastern province of Valencia and beyond. Torrential rain on Tuesday triggered flash floods which swept away bridges and buildings and forced…

AFP Israel must immediately address the “catastrophic humanitarian situation” in Gaza, the US envoy to the UN has warned, as the deadline approaches to improve the flow of aid or face cuts to American military assistance. “Israel’s words must be matched by action on the ground,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield said. “Right now, that is not happening.”…

Getty Images A “significant fire” has broken out at the BAE Systems nuclear submarine shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, police have said. Emergency services were called to the site, where the UK’s nuclear submarines are built, at around 00:44 GMT on Wednesday. Two people have been taken to hospital after suffering suspected smoke inhalation. Police said there…

A former US Air Force pilot accused of kidnapping a nine-year-old girl outside Harrods and then sexually assaulting her has been found not guilty. Robert Prussak approached the girl at the central London department store after she became separated from her family during a trip from France on 22 April. He then walked her to…

Merseyside Police Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King were killed in the stabbings in Southport The teenager accused of murdering three young girls in Southport has been charged with producing the poison ricin and possessing a military study of an al-Qaeda training manual. Axel Rudakubana, 18, has been charged with production…

Oscar-nominated actress Teri Garr died Tuesday at the age of 79, US media outlets report. Garr, known for her work in movies including Young Frankenstein, Mr Mom and Tootsie, died in Los Angeles after a 20-year battle with multiple sclerosis. She first talked publicly about the chronic autoimmune disease in 2002. Garr also appeared in…

Getty Images Israel’s parliament voted on Monday evening to ban the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating within Israel and occupied East Jerusalem. Contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials will be banned, crippling its ability to operate in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Almost all of Gaza’s population of more than two…

People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis – but now they fear it will get much more difficult because of Israel’s ban on the biggest UN agency which operates there. “Unrwa means everything to us: it is our life, our food, our drink and our medical care. When it closes,…