(RUSSIA) -- Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine before briefly launching an insurrection against the Russian military, and President Vladimir Putin by extension, died Wednesday in a plane crash. Prigozhin was on the passenger…
(NEW YORK)-- India on Wednesday became only the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to do so in the lunar south pole region. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the mission, known as Chandrayaan-3, in mid-July, with the spacecraft traveling…
(LONDON) -- Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school broke, sparking a dramatic hourslong rescue operation. The six children ranged in age from 10 to 15…
(NEW YORK) -- The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the coming weeks – a potentially devastating forecast made more likely due to human-caused climate change, according to new research. Drought and hot conditions contributed to an unprecedented start to the…
(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Secretary of Commerce is set to visit China at the end of August, according to the Commerce Department, making Gina Raimondo the second high-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit China this year. Secretary Raimondo will visit Shanghai and Beijing from August 27-30, according to…
(LONDON) -- The bodies of 18 people were found amid the wreckage left by wildfires in a hiking area in northeastern Greece, the country's fire service said on Tuesday. The remains were found northeast of the port city of Alexandroupoli, in an area where trails cross the Turkish border. A…
(LONDON) -- Former British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced on Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty in the worst child serial killer case in the modern history of the U.K. She was convicted in Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven babies and…
(LONDON) -- An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country's space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following an "abnormal situation" and crashed on Saturday, Roscosmos said in a statement to Interfax, a Russian news agency.…
(WEST KELOWNA, British Columbia) -- Fire officials in British Columbia warned they would be facing "the most challenging 24 to 48 hours of the summer," as wildfires that have been ravaging western Canada all week are expected to increase and impact more areas. Over 370 wildfires have been raging since…
(WASHINGTON) -- The White House will bring together Japan and South Korea, two critical allies in the Pacific, on Friday for an unprecedented summit that could chart a course for confronting some of the three nations' most pressing security challenges. Hosted at Camp David, the bucolic presidential retreat in Maryland,…
