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Staff at the UK embassy suffered injuries, a Foreign Office spokesperson said, after Boris Johnson announced ‘the UK is ready to provide support in any way we can, including to those British nationals affected’. Meanwhile, Save the Children says children are unaccounted for

The US president sent his sympathies to Lebanon but said after speaking to his own generals, he is under the impression the devastating blast was caused by a “bomb of some kind”

A reported 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate were being stored at the port in a “dangerous warehouse”, which may have been ignited by welding work, though Donald Trump claims it was a “bomb of some kind”

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. At least 100 people have died following the catastrophic blast in the port area in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, with thousands injured. Survivors have compared the aftermath to the last days of the civil war

BBC News Arabic journalist Maryam Toumi was conducting a video interview when the office she was in collapsed, knocking her to the ground, with the chilling scene captured live

Video clips show the white plume of smoke which filled the sky above Beirut’s port area before a huge fireball and blast wave send cars toppling

Heartbreaking new data reveals that nearly 5,900 people are dying every day after contracting Covid-19, which equates to 247 per hour – or an average of one death every 15 seconds

Beirut has been left resembling a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with soldiers maintaining cordons in a city buried in rubble and charred remains, with thousands injured and at least 100 dead – with many still trapped under toppled buildings

Mikhail Popkov, who has been called ‘The Werewolf’, has admitted to murdering 83 women, but a senior detective says the serial killer’s final toll may be “closer to 200”

The baby’s dad was shocked to see the scenes on security footage and has accused the nanny of hitting his newborn son’s hands, feet and bum in China’s Hebei province