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German police said Tuesday they had shut down a "dizzyingly large" child pornography website with hundreds of thousands of users and arrested six people with links to the network.

Nearly a million people within the Democratic Republic of Congo have been displaced from their homes this year, according to the UN.

The Identify Me campaign notched up one major success in November last year with the announcement that the body of a woman found murdered 31 years ago in a Belgian river had been identified as Briton Rita Roberts.

The order, which Google is appealing, follows a similar setback in August when a different judge found that Google's world-leading search engine was also an illegal monopoly.

The UN has warned that increasingly intense floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of what is to come as climate change makes the planet's water cycle ever more unpredictable.

Roasted by summer temperatures too hot for the beach, Dubai has turned to an innovative solution: opening them at night, complete with floodlights and lifeguards carrying night-vision binoculars.

Berlin warned the European Union on Friday against triggering a "trade war" with Beijing after members definitively backed extra tariffs on Chinese electric cars.

At least four projectiles were fired from the Gaza Strip just minutes after the country began to formally commemorate last year's October 7 attacks.

Cancer research or drugs treating cardiovascular illnesses could win a Nobel Prize on Monday when a week of laureate announcements kicks off.