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Pillars of billowing smoke and ash blocked out the sun above Greece’s second-largest island and turned the sky orange as a days-old wildfire devoured pristine forests and triggered more evacuation
A British man has become the first to sail the world non-stop in the “wrong” direction - east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents. Chay Blyth, 31, set
Angry villagers in the Indian capital held a protest yesterday outside a crematorium where they say a 9-year-old girl was raped and killed earlier this week. The protesters, sitting on a
The Afghan air force carried out more airstrikes against Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan yesterday, as the insurgent force made additional gains in the country’s north. The European Union, United Nations
President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China will provide a total of two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world within the year, in the country’s latest effort to
Australia’s government yesterday pledged 1.1 billion Australian dollars ($813 million) to address Indigenous disadvantage, including compensation to thousands of mixed-race children who were taken from their families over decades. The AU$378.6
Screen icon Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home. The 36-year-old actress’ body was discovered in the early hours of this morning by two doctors
As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021’s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo faced mounting pressure to resign, including from President Joe Biden and other onetime Democratic allies, after an investigation found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen
The British navy warned of a “potential hijack” of a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf of Oman yesterday , though the circumstances remained
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation found the three young men - two white and one black man - about six miles from the town in a wooded area
North Korea is releasing emergency military rice reserves as its food shortage worsens, South Korea’s spy agency said yesterday, with a heat wave and drought reducing the country’s supply. North Korea’s
Lithuania has ordered its border guards to turn away, by force if needed, migrants attempting to enter the Baltic country as the rapidly growing number of immigrants illegally crossing from
Due to the sudden appearance of four new Covid-19 cases in Macau, this year’s Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (MIECF), to run from August 5 to 7, will
A weather station in Leicestershire has recorded the highest temperature ever known in Britain. The figure of 37.1C, or 99F, recorded at a weather station in Nailstone, Leicestershire, is 1 degree
A Belarusian Olympic sprinter plans to seek asylum in Poland after alleging that officials tried to force her home from Japan and that she feared for her safety, an activist
A giant panda on loan to France from China gave birth to two female twin cubs yesterday, a French zoo announced. The Beauval Zoo, south of Paris, said the twins were
A surfer jumping in to translate for the rival who’d just beaten him. High-jumping friends agreeing to share a gold medal rather than move to a tiebreaker. Two runners falling
James Malone, a former antiques dealer from Dorking in Surrey, claims that while he was on trial for handling stolen goods in 1977, the police intercepted his telephone calls and
The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts of some of the most prominent federal prosecutors’ offices around the country last year, the Justice
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