Manhattan prosecutors are expected to accuse former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores of torturing Americans held in Venezuelan prisons, adding to charges from his January capture.
Escalating Houthi missile and drone strikes on airports in Abha and Riyadh mark a sharp widening of the reignited Yemen war, as Pakistan and Turkiye move to reinforce Saudi defenses.
João Marinho Neto and Ken Weeks were born exactly a year apart. On October 5 the Brazilian and the Australian turned 114 and 113 — and marked it with handwritten signs for each other.
Iran's currency sank to a new low against the dollar this week, exposing a widening rift among officials as health insurance funds buckle and inflation tops 84%.
Blockades and clashes at French high schools entered a third week, spreading to universities and prompting a stark warning from Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu against further violence.
Israel held dueling ceremonies for victims of the 2023 Hamas attack as fresh strikes near Al-Shifa Hospital killed two Palestinians and a year-old ceasefire remained far from a lasting peace.
Nearly 1,000 name suggestions poured in for a Nile hippo calf born at Dehiwala Zoo, and a young girl's pick, Momo, won.
The Pentagon quietly flew a dozen B-1 bombers home from RAF Fairford days after a terror probe near the base, prompting conflicting explanations from Trump, Vance and Rubio.
A new government push to retake Houthi-held territory has drawn Saudi airstrikes, missile attacks on Riyadh and an Aramco refinery, and a rapid military mobilization by Turkey and Pakistan.
A dashcam captured the moment a mother brown bear charged and clawed a stopped car in Hokkaido before fleeing with her cub, a reminder that Japan's bear season peaks each autumn.
The Pivnichnyi Bridge was struck again Sunday, knocking out a heating main, as Friedrich Merz traveled to Kyiv to pledge more air-defense help to Ukraine.
The president told Time magazine stockpiles of "some" weapons are thinner after eight months of conflict, even as he floats resuming strikes on Iran after the midterms.
Four sailors escaped a sinking yacht in the South Pacific after an open-ocean whale strike, then spent 17 hours adrift before a cargo ship found their raft.
Passengers wrestled control of a Dubai-to-Tel Aviv flight from an Omani co-pilot after he stabbed the captain and sent the plane into a 17,000-foot plunge, UAE officials say.
Gergő Borbély's collection began with a single can on a dorm-room shelf in 2008; it now spans 500 brands and more than 40 countries.
The Pentagon is massing the largest concentration of American carrier power in the Gulf in two decades, even as officials insist the door to diplomacy with Tehran remains open.
A driver's phone video of a doomed rescue attempt has racked up millions of views across the UK.
Islamabad's latest raids on Taliban-held border provinces mark the newest breach of a year-old ceasefire that has repeatedly collapsed despite mediation from Qatar and Turkey.
A Slovenian stunt performer held an inverted pose for 47 seconds while fully engulfed in flames on a Vienna stage.
Baghdad's 'fixed and final' deadline for the U.S.-led coalition arrived Wednesday, handing full security control to Iraqi forces even as Iran-aligned militias vow to keep their weapons.
An Instagram account running a March Madness-style bracket for Delhi's chunkiest dogs borrowed its format — and its finale week — from Alaska's Fat Bear Week.
A daylong assault of more than 120 drones and a predawn ballistic-missile follow-up killed at least nine people nationwide and set fire to Ukraine's national science academy, as Moscow widens its campaign against civilian and economic targets.
South Africans returned to a Pretoria stadium a year after a failed attempt, hoping simultaneous grilling would finally top the record Japan set in 2023.
Explosives investigators, army bomb squads and hundreds of police descended on RAF Fairford after three trucks were spotted heading toward the base early Sunday, forcing dozens of households to evacuate.
A young emu that slipped its mobile zoo enclosure was mistaken for an ostrich as it wound through a Shiga Prefecture neighborhood before being cornered at an apartment complex.
The president dismissed Tehran's roadmap to lift the naval blockade and resume talks as unacceptable, days after the Senate again failed to rein in the seven-month-old conflict.
Iran's foreign minister proposed reopening the vital oil chokepoint within a week, but U.S. officials say Trump is skeptical of the offer and plans to resume strikes after the midterms.
Thousands of home cooks lit charcoal in unison at a Pretoria rugby stadium, hoping to reclaim the Guinness World Record for the biggest simultaneous barbecue on South Africa's Heritage Day.
Two days of red-carpet diplomacy produced a nine-week extension of the tariff truce and pledges to cooperate on AI safety, but analysts say the deeper rifts between Washington and Beijing remain unresolved.
A first-grader from Chengdu broke the same world record twice in three days, solving a Rubik's Cube in an average of 4.27 seconds.
A record daytime drone barrage killed two and wounded dozens in the Ukrainian capital hours before Zelensky pressed the UN for continued Western support.
Kelkit's local bean specialty, cooked by the ton in a single giant pot, earned Guinness certification and a rare moment of global attention for the small Gümüşhane town.
Police have launched a 72-hour manhunt after three armed men opened fire on a gathering in KwaMakhutha, killing a pregnant woman among the dead.
Three hours of talks in New York eased oil markets and raised hopes of reopening the Strait of Hormuz, even as the US president warned of war if no deal follows November's midterm elections.
Seafloor sensors spanning thousands of miles of ocean point to a steady, basin-wide slowdown in the current system that helps regulate weather on both sides of the Atlantic.
Russia says it downed its largest number of drones this year as the capital's main fuel refinery caught fire during the final day of parliamentary voting.
The president is expected to claim victory on Iran while allies increasingly doubt a war that has hardened into a stalemate and unsettled global markets.
Ali Alobaidly's 28-hour exposure of the faint Shark Nebula topped nearly 4,000 entries from 66 countries in this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
The agreement, to be signed next week at the United Nations, expands the U.S. military footprint on the Danish territory while formally ruling out Chinese or Russian bases there.
Tens of thousands sat down along a 3.1-mile table of recycled materials outside Romania's Palace of Parliament, topping a mark the same nonprofit set a year earlier — and raising money for the country's first pediatric psychiatric hospital.
A US-drafted resolution to extend the mandate of the panel that monitors Iran's reimposed nuclear sanctions failed 11-2 at the Security Council, deepening a dispute over whether the sanctions are even in force.
A moose wandered onto the tracks at Warszawa Centralna on Sunday evening, forcing Poland's rail operator to suspend service on two platforms until crews could tranquilize and relocate the animal.
The vice president said the military campaign to destroy Iran's nuclear and conventional forces is over, with the next stage focused on preventing Tehran from ever rebuilding them.
A 220-pound ram wandered into a concrete pipe in a Somerset village and couldn't back out, so a fire crew improvised with chimney rods and a hearth sheet to slide him free.
A seven-story residential building already damaged by an Israeli strike fell overnight in the Tal al-Hawa district, trapping dozens of Palestinians rescuers say they lack the machinery to save.
A flying stowaway sent passengers ducking and a ScotRail worker reaching for a flag on a service between Gourock and Glasgow Central.
Italian Eurofighters scrambled from Šiauliai brought down an unmanned aircraft that crossed from Belarus, the first time NATO forces have destroyed a drone over Lithuania.
Andrea Marazzi spent nearly a year narrowing a scrapped 1993 Fiat Panda to just 19.76 inches wide, driving shoulder-first into the record books with parts pulled from his family's scrapyard.
Investigators are probing whether an electric vehicle in the cargo hold triggered the blaze that engulfed the MV June Aster off Palawan, killing dozens and leaving 13 still unaccounted for.
As a rough El Niño season strands more Humboldt penguins along Chile's coast, researchers are testing antimicrobial vests to keep the birds from picking their own stitches.
Saudi Arabia halted its East-West pipeline after drones launched from Iraqi territory struck the line near Medina, cutting one of the last major routes for Gulf crude to bypass the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
Leah Shutkever reclaimed a record she first set in 2019 — then broke two more in the same afternoon at Guinness World Records' London headquarters.
The Iran-backed group's biggest territorial gain since a 2022 truce raises the threat to Red Sea shipping and the risk of a full return to war, the UN's Yemen envoy warns.
A jet-propelled drone entered Moldovan airspace and forced a shutdown just as Volodymyr Zelensky's plane prepared to depart, an incident Moldova's ambassador called unlikely to be a coincidence.
Two truckloads of stout worth roughly £205,000 vanished from an industrial estate near Liverpool in a two-stage overnight heist.
Oil surged toward $100 a barrel after the U.S. military destroyed five tankers tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Tehran retaliated with a missile barrage on a base in Jordan, the sharpest exchange yet in a war now in its seventh month.
Wrapped in plain paper and packed alongside his clothes, the souvenir from a Miami stopover triggered a CITES investigation the moment it hit an X-ray scanner in Turin.
Sarajevo recalls embassy staff and freezes cooperation with Belgrade after Serbia gave convicted genocide commander Ratko Mladić a state funeral with full military honors.
The season's largest Northern Hemisphere calving event drifted into Joe Island off Petermann Glacier without shattering, giving glaciologists a rare look at how modern ice islands hold together on impact.
The AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than double its 2021 showing, and came within three seats of a majority — but Germany's postwar 'firewall' against governing with the far right held, for now.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head to Kyiv Sunday for the first time, after a three-hour Kremlin meeting produced a mutual halt to strikes on Kyiv and Moscow — but no breakthrough on territory.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday before traveling to Kyiv for talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, in the envoys' first joint visit to the Ukrainian capital since Trump returned to office.
A stowaway barn owl fell into the water three times before collapsing on deck during an offshore yacht race around Britain and Ireland. The crew nursed her back from exhaustion without ever leaving the competition.
More than 4,200 people remain missing after a glacier-linked flash flood tore through Himalayan valleys, in Nepal's deadliest disaster since the 2015 earthquake.
Tehran says it hit satellite communications, hangars and radar sites at two Gulf Arab bases in retaliation for renewed US strikes, drawing allies who never joined the war deeper into it.
German authorities opened a terrorism probe after saboteurs hit two power substations hundreds of miles apart within hours of each other, reviving fears of a wider Russian-linked campaign against European infrastructure.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo this week for talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, pressing new economic and security ties with one of Washington's oldest Arab partners as America's war with Iran unsettles the region.
New Central Command strikes on Iranian air-defense and radar sites drew missile and drone retaliation against U.S.-linked bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, while a strike on a wedding in southern Iran killed at least four people and wounded dozens.
Satellite trackers lost, then relocated, a floating raft of driftwood and trees the size of two football fields adrift on one of North America's largest reservoirs.
Nepal's disaster agency counted 987 dead and nearly 4,000 missing six days after a glacier's bedrock gave way in the Himalayas, sending a wall of rock and meltwater into two river valleys.
A new joint venture gives an American-led company effective majority control of 65 billion barrels across 17 fields — the most tangible sign yet of how completely US-Venezuela relations have shifted since Maduro's capture nine months ago.
A decade-old homegrown Cayenne strain produced a 20.6-inch pod, giving Swiss gardener Jürg Wiesli his third Guinness World Record for the longest chili pepper.
Harald, Europe's oldest reigning monarch, died at Oslo University Hospital after more than a week's treatment for a blood disorder; his son automatically becomes King Haakon VIII.
An Austrian climber's pack, abandoned in a crevasse in 1963, turned up intact on a shrinking Tyrolean glacier — one more artifact a warming Alps has given back.
A massive ice-and-rock collapse high in the Himalayas dammed and then unleashed a river Wednesday, burying villages on the Nepal-Tibet border and leaving hundreds of foreign trekkers, including dozens of Australians bound for Mount Kailash, unaccounted for.
John Ratcliffe became the first sitting CIA director to visit Moscow since 2021, in a secretive trip that came as U.S.-brokered peace talks with Russia remain deadlocked.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said kinetic strikes against Iran have not been ruled out and called the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz 'ironclad,' as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled 'Operation Economic Outcast,' a sweeping sanctions campaign targeting Iran's oil, shipping and financial networks.
A Montagu's harrier known only as AU has fathered at least 16 chicks since 2018 — six of them this year, with two different mates — as conservationists guard his nest sites in secret.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised sweeping new measures against Tehran and its remaining trade partners as a 60-day ceasefire expired with the war unresolved.
Clément Vandenkerckhove, 26, became a prince after Prince Laurent formally acknowledged him as his son, though he gains no claim to the Belgian throne.
Voters chose 145 lawmakers for a newly created single-chamber legislature Sunday, capping a year-long constitutional overhaul that critics say leaves the country's political system firmly under President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's control.
Four Paws began moving big cats from the long-closed Luján Zoo outside Buenos Aires to sanctuaries in Colorado and South Africa, ending years of uncertainty over their fate.
The president called it the "most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country," as the six-month-old conflict grinds on and crude oil jumps toward $94 a barrel.
Animal-welfare group Four Paws began flying big cats out of the shuttered Lujan Zoo to sanctuaries in South Africa and Colorado, in one of the largest such relocations on record.
A network of hand-dug mining tunnels collapsed in western Central African Republic, killing more than 100 people in one of the country's deadliest mining disasters on record.
A missile and drone barrage killed at least 16 people and tore through apartment blocks and a children's hospital, as a shortage of Patriot interceptors leaves Kyiv increasingly exposed.
A night-long assault combining ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons and drone swarms struck more than two dozen sites across the Ukrainian capital as US-brokered peace talks remain stalled.
Dubai IT engineer Pushpajothi Ravikumar crammed short, three-letter words edge to edge to become the first person ever certified for the feat.
Mykhailo Fedorov's video address, delivered hours after Zelensky moved to permanently replace him, marks the most direct public challenge yet to the president's authority since Russia's 2022 invasion.
The state-run oil giant confirmed hydrocarbons at a deepwater well off Amapá, reviving debate over drilling near one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems months before Brazil's presidential election.
A Japanese macaque who vanished from a Highland wildlife park for a day returned to his habitat unassisted, ending a search that included thermal-imaging drones.
Zambia's electoral commission declared President Hakainde Hichilema the winner with just over 60% of the vote, following a count disrupted by a gunfire raid on opposition figures and a suspended tally.
More than 600 drones targeted the Russian capital region overnight in the heaviest assault on Moscow in roughly two years, hours after Russian strikes killed at least ten people in a Kharkiv-region village.
The death toll has passed 2,300 and is rising faster than any previous Ebola epidemic, health officials said, as the WHO warns it could soon eclipse the deadliest outbreak ever recorded worldwide.
Trump's son-in-law met Hamas's top leader for the first time since last year's ceasefire before flying to Israel to press Benjamin Netanyahu on a 15-point roadmap the prime minister has already rejected.
Hundreds of drones struck Russian regions overnight, while Russian strikes hit Ukrainian cities in return, in one of the most intense exchanges of the nearly 4½-year war.
Two waves of Israeli airstrikes killed at least 11 people in south Lebanon, the deadliest barrage since a June framework agreement, days before a fresh round of Rome-mediated talks.
A magnitude-7.7 quake struck before dawn Saturday, killing at least 47 people on Flores Island and burying roads under landslides that have cut off remote communities from rescue crews.
Westminster's plan to push pub-goers off their feet and onto barstools in Soho has united landlords, the mayor's office and Downing Street in opposition.
An 18-year-old summer worker was among the crew who found roughly 50 gold bars and a haul of coins sealed into a charity's basement wall in Dendermonde — now the subject of an ownership investigation.