British authorities failed to act on multiple official warnings about a website promoting suicide that has been connected to at least 50 UK deaths, the BBC has found.

The online forum, which we are not naming, is easily accessible to anyone on the open web, including children.

The BBC investigation identified multiple warnings to government by coroners and a number of police investigations, but the forum still remains active.

Families of the dead, the youngest just 17, say the failure to act led to more avoidable deaths. They are demanding an inquiry.

They're speaking out, despite the risks others may find the forum, because they want action now to shut it down and prevent deaths in the future.

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Maine's state governor Janet Mills has confirmed 18 people have been killed and a further 13 injured after shootings in Lewiston, US.

The suspect in the shootings that killed 18 people on Wednesday night remains at large, police confirmed.

Police earlier named Robert Card, 40, as a person of interest and have said he is "armed and dangerous".

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The Israeli military says it now controls the north of the Gaza Strip after intense fighting with Hamas.

50,000 Palestinians fled Gaza City yesterday through evacuation routes after Israel opened a safe passage for a few hours on the road to the south.

Meanwhile the French government is holding talks on getting humanitarian aid into Gaza.

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The Israeli military has said it has agreed to help evacuate babies from Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital to a "safer" facility.

The Israeli military has also denied accusations it attacked the hospital - the largest in the territory - but has acknowledged clashes with Hamas fighters in the area.

The Israeli military has repeatedly accused Hamas of operating from tunnels underneath the hospital, which Hamas denies.

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US President Joe Biden has arrived in Israel to express his solidarity and discuss war plans with its leaders.

The high-stakes trip has been upended by a blast at a crowded Gaza City hospital on Tuesday in which hundreds of people are feared to have died.

The blast, which Palestinian officials and the Israeli military have blamed on each other, further stoked tensions.

Biden had planned to visit Jordan to meet Arab leaders but this was cancelled after the explosion.

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Hamas has released two US hostages who were abducted during the Palestinian group's deadly raid on Israel.

Israel confirmed that mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan had been handed over to them from Hamas at the Gaza border.

It follows a visit to Israel by the US President Joe Biden.

Hamas said the pair were freed for "humanitarian reasons".

They were the first captives released since the gunmen raided Israel on 7 October, killing 1,400 people and taking around 200 hostages.

More than 4,000 people have since been killed in Israeli air and artillery strikes in Gaza, according to Palestinian officials.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Jeremy Bowen in Jerusalem and Sarah Smith in Washington.

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Israel has confirmed that two more hostages in Gaza have been released by Hamas, bringing the number freed so far to four.

The two women have been named as Nurit Cooper, 79, and Yocheved Lifschitz, 85.
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The women's husbands are among the more than 200 people still being held inside Gaza.

Two American-Israelis, mother and daughter Judith and Natalie Raanan, were previously freed on Friday.

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Israel has urged Russia to protect "all its citizens and all Jews" after a large mob shouting antisemitic slogans stormed a Dagestan airport.

An angry crowd ran through the airport in Makhachkala seeking people arriving on a flight from Tel Aviv.

Some of the crowd also ran onto the runway and surrounded aircraft there.

Russia's aviation agency Rosaviatsia said security forces later brought the situation under control and that authorities have closed the airport until Tuesday.

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Dozens of people are reported to have been killed by a huge explosion at Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza.
 
The Hamas-run heath ministry, and the director of the nearby Indonesian hospital, have said at least 50 people have been killed.

The health ministry said the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike.

There has been no comment yet from Israel on the reported blast.

The BBC is working to verify details of the incident.

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Ukrainian children forced to leave their homes near the front line have begun to arrive in safer parts of the country.

Last week, parents were told they must move their families to safety from 31 settlements in the southern Kherson and eastern Donetsk regions.

Ukraine officials, who made the orders, said the fighting has become too intense for children to remain.

While millions of Ukrainians have fled the war abroad, the Ukrainian government estimates there are nearly five million internally displaced people in the country.

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