A French model-enthusiast who wanted to beat the world record for a matchstick Eiffel Tower has had his hopes dashed. Richard Plaud, 47, from Montpellier-de-Médillan in western France, was told by the Guinness World Records that his 7.19m (23ft) tower did not qualify because he had used the wrong kind of matches. "It's part of my dream that's vanished," he told reporters. His model took eight years, 706,900 matches and 23kg of glue to build. The final piece of wood was carefully glued into place on 27 December, 100 years to the day since the death of the engineer Gustav Eiffel. After that, he put the 1/45th scale model on display and contacted the Guinness World Records team so they could authenticate his work. But that was where it all went pear-shaped, because Mr Plaud had made a fundamental error. Realising that the most annoying part of the job was going to be shaving off hundreds of thousands of bits of sulphur from individual matchsticks, he contacted the match manufacturer. They supplied him with kilos of sulphur-less matches - in other words sticks without the red part at the end. Perfect for building, but technically not real matches. Unfortunately for him, the Guinness World Records rules stipulate that only "commercially available" matches qualify for a record-breaker. "They reckoned that my matches weren't available for sale. So they didn't qualify," said Mr Plaud. "It's pretty astonishing, and actually rather annoying. Not exactly fair play. What hurts most is that they don't acknowledge the work that I put in, the time I spent, the mental energy - because I can tell you it was not easy." He hopes to put his tower on display in Paris for the Olympics in July. Meanwhile the Guinness record stays in Lebanon - where Toufic Daher built a 6.53m Eiffel Tower in 2009. Using the right matches.

By Thomas Mackintosh & Victoria Bourne in central London BBC News Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters have begun gathering in London for a protest urging an end to Israel's attacks in Gaza. Last weekend, 100,000 people took to the streets of the capital demanding an end to the bombing in Gaza, and police expect similar numbers again. Rallies are expected in many UK cities, including Manchester and Glasgow. The demos come as Israel expands its strikes, three weeks after Hamas launched an attack on its territory.

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Hamas has fired rockets on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon after warning people to leave by 17:00 local time (15:00 BST) Air raid sirens have been sounding across Israel throughout the day - the military says more than 4,500 rockets have been fired since Saturday Israel says it's killed two top Hamas officials while continuing to bomb the Gaza Strip; the group itself has not confirmed this A BBC reporter in Gaza said it was the worst bombing he had seen in 20 years, with neighbourhoods flattened Hamas has said it won't negotiate on the hostages it has taken from Israel until the "end of the battle" Earlier, Israel said the border with Gaza was secure, three days after the Hamas attack that has killed 1,000 people on the Israeli side Meanwhile, more than 800 people have been killed by the strikes on the Palestinian side, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza

People from every family in Ukraine's north-eastern village of Hroza have been affected by a missile attack that killed 52 people on Thursday, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has said. An eight-year-old boy was among the victims when a cafe was hit during a wake in the Kharkiv region. "From every household there were people present", Mr Klymenko said. Ukraine's defence ministry blamed Russia for the attack, and said there were no military targets in the area. Russia has not directly commented on the strike. But Russia's state news agency Ria Novosti reported that the Russian military had carried out 20 air and artillery strikes on Ukrainian targets in the Kupyansk district - where Hroza village is located. It did not say when the strikes were carried our or mention the village of Hroza.

President Joe Biden has vowed continued US support for Ukraine, after further military funding was excluded from a last-minute congressional budget deal. The temporary measure, pushed through to avert a government shutdown, did not include $6bn (£4.92bn) in military aid for Kyiv - a top White House priority. Hardline Republicans oppose further military aid, with many openly opposing Mr Biden's approach to the war. But on Sunday Mr Biden said Ukraine could "count on" US support. "We cannot, under any circumstances, allow US support to Ukraine to be interrupted," Mr Biden said. "I can reassure [Ukraine] we'll get there, that we're going to get it done," he said on restoring funding for the war. "I want to assure our American allies... that you can count on our support, we will not walk away." The US has already supplied some $46bn (£37bn) in military aid to Ukraine since Russian launched its full scale invasion in February 2022. President Biden has requested another $24bn (£19bn). And in recent months the US has sent state of the art equipment to Kyiv - including long-range missiles and Abrams tanks. It comes as Kyiv's forces continue to launch a slow moving counter-offensive in the south of the country.

A Kosovo police officer and three gunmen have been killed after about 30 attackers stormed a village before barricading themselves in a monastery, police say. Prime Minister Albin Kurti has urged the gunmen in the village of Banjska near the Serbian border to surrender. He blamed "Serbia-sponsored criminals". Serbia has not commented. The Nato-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo says it has troops in the area and is ready to respond if required. Sunday's shooting began at about 03:00 (01:00 GMT), after police said they arrived in Banjska where a blockade had been reported. Officers were attacked from several different positions with "an arsenal of firearms, including hand grenades and shoulder-fired missiles", they said in a statement. "We can see armed people in uniforms... they are firing on us and we are firing back," Kosovo police official Veton Elshan told AFP. Mr Kurti said they were "professionals, with military and police background". The Serbia Orthodox Church said that gunmen had stormed a monastery in the village, located in Leposavic, where pilgrims from the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad were staying. Priests and pilgrims locked themselves inside the monastery's temple for safety, the Diocese of Raska-Prizren said. "Armed masked men move around the courtyard and occasional gunshots are heard," it said in a statement condemning the violence.

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Azerbaijan has launched "anti-terrorist" operations in areas of its Nagorno-Karabakh region under ethnic-Armenian control, threatening to carry on "until the end". Tensions in the South Caucasus have been high for months around the breakaway enclave, recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan and Armenia last went to war three years ago. Baku made clear the latest offensive would stop only with a surrender. "Illegal Armenian military formations" would have to raise the white flag, hand over all weapons and dissolve "the illegal regime", the Azerbaijani presidency said in a statement . Azerbaijan and Armenia first went to war in the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Then in 2020 Azerbaijan recaptured areas in and around Nagorno-Karabakh before a truce was agreed and monitored by Russian peacekeepers.

This week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles. Estimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014? Crimea is a Russian fortress, so it is important not to get carried away. "The strategy has two main goals," says Oleksandr Musiienko, from Kyiv's Centre for Military and Legal Studies. "To establish dominance in the north-western Black Sea and to weaken Russian logistical opportunities for their defence lines in the south, near Tokmak and Melitopol." In other words, operations in Crimea go hand-in-glove with Ukraine's counter-offensive in the south. "They depend on each other," Musiienko says. Let's look at Ukraine's recent successes in Crimea. On Wednesday, long-range cruise missiles, supplied by the UK and France, dealt a heavy blow to Russia's much-vaunted Black Sea fleet at its home port of Sevastopol. Satellite images of the scene at the Sevmorzavod dry dock repair facility showed two blackened vessels.

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A law enforcement dog caught a fugitive as he tried to crawl away in thick underbrush two weeks after his escape from a prison in the US state of Pennsylvania, authorities have said. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was arrested in a wooded area after an aircraft picked up his heat signal overnight. More than 500 officers hunted him down after he escaped on 31 August. He was sentenced last month to life for killing his ex-girlfriend in front of her two young children in April 2021

A Georgia special grand jury recommended charging one current and two former US senators and 18 other allies of ex-President Donald Trump, a newly released report says. But prosecutors decided not to indict them for alleged efforts to reverse the 2020 election results in the state. The jury had voted to recommend indictments against Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and former Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. The full report was released on Friday. The document, much of which was previously under seal, offers the clearest picture yet of the secret jury's thinking as they investigated whether Mr Trump and his allies broke the law in Georgia during the 2020 US presidential election. That investigation culminated in the criminal charges that were brought against Mr Trump and 18 co-defendants last month for an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election results. All have pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Record sightings of Asian hornets are raising fears of catastrophic consequences for the UK's bee populations for years to come. The invasive hornets are wreaking havoc in mainland Europe and threaten to get a foothold in the UK, with nests found in East Sussex, Kent, Devon and Dorset. The insects feed on native bees and wasps, damaging biodiversity. The warning comes as leading scientists release a global report into the threats caused by invasive species.

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Japan has begun its controversial discharge of treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking protests in the region and retaliation from Beijing. China is the biggest buyer of seafood from Japan, and on Thursday it said it would block all such imports. Japan says the water is safe, and many scientists agree. The UN's nuclear watchdog has also approved the plan. But critics say more studies need to be done and the release should be halted. More than a million tonnes of water stored at the nuclear plant will be discharged over the next 30 years. China, which has been the most vocal of opponents since the plan was announced two years ago, called the water discharge an "extremely selfish and irresponsible act" and said Japan was "passing an open wound onto the future generations of humanity". Shortly afterwards, China's customs office announced that an existing ban on seafood imports from Fukushima and some prefectures would be immediately extended to cover the whole of Japan to "protect the health of Chinese consumers".

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human remains found on a glacier close to switzerlands famous matterhorn have been confirmed to be the body of a german climber missing since 1986. the discovery is the latest in a number of long held secrets that the alpine glaciers now rapidly shrinking due to climate change have revealed. the body was discovered earlier this month by climbers crossing the theodul glacier above zermatt. they noticed a hiking boot and crampons emerging from the ice. dna analysis showed the body to be that of a german climber who disappeared 37 years ago. a huge search and rescue operation at the time failed to find any trace of him

Ukraine's military says it has had success on one of the front lines in southeast Ukraine, as Western officials talk of a major thrust taking place. In a video published by President Zelensky, Ukrainian troops said they had taken the village of Staromaiorske. The village, 150km (90 miles) east of the city of Zaporizhzhia, was liberated under dense artillery fire and air strikes, said the army. A senior Ukrainian defence adviser said every advance is seen as "a milestone"

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