The research group will spend around five days on the island (Picture: Getty) Researchers have begun to search for the remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane on a remote Pacific Island.
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President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has tightened its grip on parliament, winning a record 355 seats in Russia’s 450-seat Duma in a tightly orchestrated election.
A London court has thrown out a 145m euros (£126m) legal case brought by a former lover of the ex-king of Spain.
The top US and Turkish diplomats have spoken by phone after US forces in Syria shot down an armed Turkish drone.
Voters in Germany's largest state, Bavaria, choose a new parliament on Sunday, after a very nasty election campaign in which populist upstarts have rattled the status quo.
American Simone Biles has become the most decorated gymnast in history after winning her second gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships.
The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found.
A lack of simple tests for common lung conditions is preventing GPs making accurate diagnoses, a charity says.
UK workers are taking more sick days than at any point in the last decade, new research suggests.
Politicians need to question if the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention is "fit for our modern age", Suella Braverman is expected to say in a speech.
A hospital trust failed to send out 24,000 letters from senior doctors to patients and their GPs after they became lost in a new computer system, the BBC has learned.
A row between Canada and India over the murder of a Sikh separatist has stoked talk of political friction among some Sikhs and Hindus in the diaspora, though others say it's overblown.
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