An Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed one person on Thursday, Lebanon's health ministry reported, while the Israeli military said it killed a member of Iran-backed Hezbollah.

Despite a November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon and has maintained troops in five areas it deems "strategic".

On the sloping shoreline of the Greek Aegean island of Milos, a vast construction site has left a gaping wound into the island's trademark volcanic rock.

Powerful winds topping 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) battered Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia on Thursday, injuring at least 25 people -- one seriously -- and forcing school closures and flight restrictions.

Pep Guardiola is hoping two rare free midweeks will refresh his "exhausted" Manchester City squad for the Premier League title run-in after beating Fulham 3-0 on Wednesday.

Ticket prices for the 2026 World Cup have skyrocketed on FIFA's official resale platform, with seats for many matches listed at several times their face value even though most tickets have only recently been distributed following the end of the main sales phase in January.

Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe apologized Thursday for his "choice of language" after saying the "UK has been colonized by immigrants".

The billionaire businessman, founder and chairman of the Ineos chemicals company, made the remarks in a television interview in which he suggested "huge levels of immigration" to the UK had harmed the economy.

A member of Niger's ruling junta has urged his country's citizens to prepare for "war" with France, as relations with the former colonial power hit new lows.

Syria's defense ministry said on Thursday that the army had taken control of the Al-Tanf base after the withdrawal of U.S. forces deployed there as part of the coalition against the Islamic State group.

"Through coordination between the Syrian and American sides," army units have taken control of the base "and have begun deploying along the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian" border nearby, a defense ministry statement said.

Most foreign families have fled northeast Syria's Al-Hol camp, which holds relatives of suspected Islamic State group fighters, since the departure of Kurdish forces who previously guarded it, humanitarian sources said Thursday.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, one source told AFP that "since last Saturday... there are no more than 20 families in the foreigners' annex", while a source from another humanitarian organization said the section was basically empty.

The speaker of Germany's lower house of parliament briefly visited the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the body told AFP.

Julia Kloeckner spent "about an hour in the part of Gaza controlled by Israeli army forces," parliament said in response to an AFP query, becoming the first German official to visit Gaza since Hamas' attack on Israel in October 2023 that sparked a war devastating the densely-populated coastal strip.