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Swiss glaciers lose over 5% of ice volume in 2026 as heat waves, low winter snow accelerate thaw
Pacific coast battens down as Hurricane Hilary threatens 'catastrophic' flooding
Experts forecast flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes and wind damage to Southern California, as well as life-threatening surf conditions and rip curren…
'Complete betrayal of trust:' Neonatal nurse in a British hospital found guilty of killing 7 babies
One of the senior doctors at the Countess of Chester Hospital told the BBC he had repeatedly tried to raise the alarm about Letby but hospital executives faile…
Taliban official says women lose value if their faces are visible to men in public
The Taliban’s restrictions on girls and women have caused global outrage, including from some Muslim-majority countries
Advocates sue federal government for failing to ban imports of cocoa harvested by children
A 2019 study by the University of Chicago, commissioned by the U.S. government, found 790,000 children, some as young as 5, were working on Ivory Coast cocoa p…
A central Kansas police force comes under constitutional criticism after raiding a newspaper
Newspaper publisher and co-owner Eric Meyer maintains that the newspaper’s aggressive coverage of local politics and Police Chief Gideon Cody’s record are the …
More evacuations considered in Norway where the level in swollen rivers continues to rise
”This has been like a disaster movie,” Solveig Vestenfor, the mayor of Aal municipality that has been affected by the floods, told NRK.
Virgin Galactic's first space tourists finally soar, an Olympian and a mother-daughter duo
Ticket prices were $200,000 when Goodwin signed up. The cost is now $450,000
Romanian care homes scandal spotlights abuse described as 'inhumane and degrading'
Four residents with severe disabilities were lying on mattresses “soiled with feces, urine, and blood, with flies on them,” they said, who “couldn’t defend the…
Mourners in Ireland pay their respects to singer Sinéad O'Connor at funeral procession
Hundreds of people made the pilgrimage to her former home in Bray, the seaside village south of Dublin where O'Connor lived for 15 years
Indigenous leader inspires an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river
The Komi Memem, a tributary of a larger river that's unprotected, is now the first among hundreds of rivers in the Brazilian Amazon to have a law that grants i…
Kremlin critic Navalny convicted of extremism and sentenced to 19 years in prison
Navalny rejected all the charges against him as politically motivated and accused the Kremlin of seeking to keep him behind bars for life
Adidas brings in $437 million from the first Yeezy sale. Part of that will go to anti-hate groups
The Adidas CEO said the Yeezy sales are "of course also helping both our cash flow and general financial strength.”
Some of Niger's neighbors defend the coup there, even hinting at war. It's a warning for Africa
Many just want to feel secure as Islamic extremists expand their range in the Sahel, the arid region south of the Sahara Desert
Once nearing extinction, Brazil's golden monkeys have rebounded from yellow fever, scientists say
In 2019, there were 2,500 monkeys, down from 3,700 in a 2014 survey
'The Few, the Proud' aren't so few: Marines recruiting surges while other services struggle
Last year, the Navy, Air Force and Marines had to eat into their pools of delayed entry applicants in order to make their goals