Polls predict historic losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on Thursday as anti-immigrant Reform U.K. makes gains, and a new era of multiparty politics takes shape.

Local elections in England, and parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales, take place on Thursday. The governing Labour Party is expected to do very badly.

The whale appeared to be unharmed by the collision, which was captured on video.

People in at least three states are being monitored after being on the ship. None have shown symptoms, officials said.

Three passengers with symptoms of hantavirus were evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship where an outbreak of the disease has killed three people and sickened five others since April 11.

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating after a person operating a personal watercraft struck a gray whale off Vancouver. Officials said the operator had been taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition.

From classrooms to crowded buses, people across South and Southeast Asia are adjusting to life with less cooling — or none at all — as the war in Iran drives an energy crunch.

Gabi is a robot monk and a new member of South Korea’s largest Buddhist sect. During a ceremony at the Jogye Temple in Seoul on Wednesday, the robot promised to follow orders and not hurt other robots.

Israel struck Beirut’s southern outskirts on Wednesday for the first time since a cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon took effect last month.

Economic pain is pushing many Europeans to the nationalist right. Local elections in Britain should give clues about how many.

Nothing was disclosed about the peace plan, and there were conflicting signals from the Iranians about how seriously they were taking it.

Researchers examined the combined effects of tree loss and global warming in an effort to better understand how and when an ecosystem collapse could unfold.