Several homes were swept away or collapsed, and dozens were reported missing. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced, many more are without electricity.
Federer's decision effectively ends any chance of the former World Number 1 winning the singles gold medal at the Olympics.
A multi-agency United Nations report has said that world hunger and malnutrition levels worsened dramatically last year, a first-of-its-kind global assessment in the pandemic era has revealed.
Authorities said that the unstable remaining structure was a threat to search and rescue teams still at the scene.
French magistrates have opened an inquiry into the allegation that four fashion groups, including Uniqlo and the owner of Zara, have profited using forced labour of the Uyghur minority in China.
Addressing a massive gathering on the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese President Xi Jinping "Whoever wants to do so will face bloodshed in front of a Great Wall of steel built by more than 1.4 billion Chinese people."
The error message saying, "Something went wrong, try reloading" kept re-appearing on people's profile pages till Twitter managed to rectify the bug.
The report by the Coalition for Negative Emission and consultancy firm McKinsey said that without action to deliver 1 Gigatonne of negative emissions globally by 2025, keeping global warming within the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 degrees Celsius cannot be achieved.
In a heartwarming gesture, British scientists who developed the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, National Health Service members and frontline medical staff received a standing ovation at Wimbledon's Centre Court.
On Monday, the Hong Kong administration passed a statement that said that the UK had been classified as extremely high risk because of the recent rebound of the epidemic situation in the UK and the widespread delta variant virus strain there.
