Smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to blanket U.S. cities in a noxious atmosphere on Thursday, resulting in flight delays and cancellations of outdoor activities, while environmental groups demanded immediate action to combat climate change.
Parts of the mid-Atlantic region were rated by the Environmental Protection Agency as "Code Maroon," the...
On Thursday, Unicef claimed that the Taliban may have barred international NGOs from educating 500,000 Afghan children out of school.
The UN agency requested more information on reports that the administration did not want foreign organisations directly involved in education.
Since assuming power nearly two years ago, Taliban authorities have barred...
Israeli forces invaded the West Bank city of Ramallah early Thursday morning in what the military said was an operation to demolish the home of a Palestinian accused of a double bombing in Jerusalem last year.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, at least 35 persons were wounded, including...
"We have lost this glacier melting and sea level rise game," says Professor Petteri Taalas.
The British Antarctic Survey has released new maps depicting the retreat of ice at our poles in graphic detail.
Professor Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation of the United Nations, issued a...
A British child is one of four who sustained "life-threatening injuries" after the assault in Annecy, France. A man with "legal refugee status" from Syria has been apprehended.
This type of event never occurs here.
Since the unexpected and senseless injury of four young children and two adults in a playground,...
The suspect had applied for asylum in France, Switzerland, and Italy in addition to Sweden, where he had refugee status for the past decade. There were four minors and two adults injured.
A three-year-old British tourist was among those stabbed in the French Alps on Thursday.
She was one of four...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed human rights with Saudi Arabia's crown prince on Tuesday during a mission designed to strengthen ties with the long-time ally, which has forged closer ties with Washington's adversaries.
The focus of Blinken's three-day visit to the oil-rich monarchy will also be on efforts...
Tuesday, Indian authorities made impassioned pleas to families to help identify more than 100 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after 275 people were killed in the country's deadliest rail accident in more than two decades.
On Friday, a passenger train crashed with a stalled goods train, leaped the...
In recent years, the pontiff has endured a variety of maladies, including the removal of a portion of his colon in 2021.
Following a checkup, Pope Francis departed the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
Following at least two recent episodes of illness, the 86-year-old had been examined at the hospital.
At the end...
Iran will reopen its embassy in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after a seven-year closure, according to Tehran and a diplomatic source, completing a March rapprochement agreement mediated by China.
Saudi Arabia severed ties with Iran in 2016 as a result of attacks on its embassy in Tehran and consulate in...
Signal failure caused India's deadliest railway catastrophe in almost two decades, killing at least 275 people. On Sunday, rescue personnel concluded their efforts.
According to the chief secretary of the eastern state of Odisha, Pradeep Jena, the death toll from Friday's accident was revised down from 288 after it was...
Joran van der Sloot is serving 28 years. For murdering a 21-year-old Peruvian woman five years after Ms Holloway was last seen.
Before his pending extradition to the United States, the primary suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway has been transferred to a penitentiary near...
According to one study, the use of common over-the-counter gastritis medications such as TUMS or Prilosec can increase the likelihood of developing migraines by as much as 70 percent.
A cohort of 11,800 individuals was analyzed by researchers from the University of Maryland, of which 2,100 were users of over-the-counter anti-heartburn medications.
Venice becomes the first city globally to implement a payment system exclusively for visitors. To verify that individuals beyond entry points possess a QR code, officials conduct arbitrary inspections. Despite this, not all individuals are content.
Visitors to Venice are now required to pay an entrance fee by a contentious scheme that went into effect today.
The pilot program is intended to deter tourists and reduce the volume of visitors that congest the canals during the height of the holiday season, thereby making the city more habitable for locals, according to authorities.
A grand jury in the state of Arizona has indicted sixteen individuals, including Mark Meadows, the chief of staff for Donald Trump, and Rudy Giuliani, an attorney, on charges related to their purported involvement in nullifying the former president's defeat in the 2020 election.
Eleven Republicans are charged in the indictment issued late Wednesday by the state attorney general. The document in question was erroneously submitted to Congress, wherein it claimed that Trump had secured the crucial state for 2020.
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court indicated its willingness to remand Donald Trump's criminal case concerning his endeavors to annul the 2020 election to a lower court. This remand would enable the court to determine whether specific elements of the indictment constituted "official acts" shielded by presidential immunity.