Mexico City airports shut down due to spewing ash from Popocatepetl volcano
Mexico City’s two main airports were temporarily shut down Saturday due to ash spewing from the nearby Popocatepetl volcano.
Is the Bermuda Triangle mystery finally solved? One scientist thinks so
The Bermuda Triangle is best known for its stories of ships and airplanes that seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
Biden endorses F-16 training for Ukrainians as Zelenskyy set to attend G7 summit
Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies warned China and North Korea against building up their nuclear arsenals, pivoting to major northeast Asian crises ahead of the arrival later Saturday of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Tourist shot to death in popular Mexican resort town days after another tourist killed in machete attack
The U.S. State Department says Americans should 'exercise increased caution' in the state of Oaxaca
A proposed $5 billion man-made ‘moon’ could be Dubai’s next big thing
An entrepreneur wants to build a 900-foot replica of the moon in Dubai. The city-state is already home to the world’s tallest building and other architectural wonders.
G-7 summit: Biden, Japan's Kishida vow to 'stand strong' against global threats
Leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies plan to devote much of the first day of the Group of Seven summit to finding new ways to punish Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine.
‘Exceptionally rare’ Rembrandt portraits rediscovered after 200 years in hiding
The portraits have remained in a private collection for nearly two centuries, “completely unknown to scholars.”
Titanic: New 3D scans 'rewrite everything we know' about ill-fated voyage
Scientists have created a "digital twin" of the Titanic's wreckage, showing stunning details never seen before.
Nearly 2,000-year-old marble artifacts discovered on Israeli seabed
The location of the artifacts was reported a few weeks earlier by an experienced sea swimmer.
German court sentences 5 to prison for $129 million jewelry heist
The crime was considered one of Germany's most spectacular jewelry heists in recent history.
Slovak authorities investigate zookeeper's death in animal enclosure
Authorities in Slovakia launched an investigation after a zookeeper was found dead in an animal enclosure, officials said Tuesday.
Watch: Platypuses return to Australian national park after being locally extinct for 50 years
So far, five females have been reintroduced to Sydney’s Royal national Park and another four males will follow in the coming weeks.
Skeletons discovered in Pompeii show deaths by earthquake, not just Vesuvius' eruption
The two skeletons, believed to be men, were found beneath a wall that collapsed before the area was covered in volcanic material.
Climate danger: UN forecasts 2 in 3 chance of briefly hitting key heat limit soon
The world has been inching closer to the 1.5-degree threshold due to human-caused climate change for years. Scientists expect a temporary burst of heat from an El Nino will supercharge this.
Sherpa guide climbs Mount Everest for 26th time, tying all-time record
Pasang Dawa Sherpa reached the summit on Sunday morning, matching the record set by a fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.
China sentences US citizen, 78, to life in prison on spying charges
Details of the charges against John Shing-Wan Leung, who was first detained on April 15, 2021, have not been publicly released.
Israel, Islamic Jihad agree on cease-fire to halt 5 days of fighting
Israel and the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire late Saturday, seeking to halt five days of intense fighting that killed 33 Palestinians, including at least 13 civilians.
Eurovision 2023: Swedish singer Loreen wins global music competition
Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her power ballad “Tattoo," at a colorful, eclectic music competition clouded for a second year running by the war in Ukraine.
Housing association discovers body of tenant six years after death
The association officials also reportedly discovered a 1½-foot pile of unopened mail, food that expired in 2017 and reading glasses on a TV guide for May 4, 2017.
Doomsday cult death toll hits 200 in Kenya, with more than 600 reported missing
Autopsies conducted on more than 100 bodies last week showed the victims died of starvation, strangulation, suffocation and injuries from blunt objects.