New Paris exhibition explores Ireland's housing crisis through contemporary art

Figure is highest ever recorded for species and confirms one of Indian Ocean’s greatest conservation success stories A landmark survey of the world’s largest free-roaming giant tortoise population has revealed the once endangered species is thriving. A population of Aldabra giant tortoise lives on an island in Seychelles called Aldabra Atoll.

Government forces’ attack raises risk of internal conflict in Ethiopia that could trigger regional war Eritrean troops who crossed into Ethiopia’s Tigray region have come under drone attack from government forces, raising the risk that renewed internal conflict in Ethiopia could trigger an all-out regional war between the neighbouring countries. Military vehicles carrying soldiers drove across Eritrea’s southern border into the Tigray region on Wednesday, reaching the town of Adigrat 25 miles south, according to civilian witnesses, a militia commander…

Crude oil prices spike again as The Atlantic reports Trump is considering new attacks on Iran before the U.S. midterms and fighting in Yemen intensifies.

Israel had threatened to close the U.K.'s century-and-a-half-old Jerusalem consulate over new British sanctions, but they found a way to avoid "blowing the whole relationship up."