British troops ransacked and torched the White House and other federal buildings in Washington, D.C., on August 24, 1814, in a humiliating attack on American sovereignty.
Ukraine is now under a full-scale attack from Russia, and Western Australia has broken a 44-year-old record as temperatures reach 35 degrees yet again.
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