(LONDON) -- Racing yachts had a close encounter with a pod of orcas near the Strait of Gibraltar on Thursday, race officials said. Crew members aboard a rival pair of 65-foot yachts were on the final leg of The Ocean Race, an around-the-world sailing competition, when they reported being intercepted…
(NEW YORK) -- After days of desperate searches throughout the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday that the five passengers aboard the missing submersible vessel were killed when vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion. Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood, his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding and Paul-Henri Nargeolet were inside…
(LONDON) -- A Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia on espionage charges had his appeal denied in court on Thursday. Evan Gershkovich, a correspondent with the paper's Moscow bureau, was arrested in March and stands accused of "acting on the instructions of the American side" and collecting state secrets…
(NEW YORK) -- A team of archaeologists in Mexico have discovered the remains of an ancient Mayan city deep in the jungle of the Yucatán Peninsula in southern Mexico. Led by Archaeologist Ivan Sprajc, the researchers trekked through about 60 km of thick vegetation, making the "monumental" discovery within the…
(PARIS) -- Dozens of people were injured and hundreds were sent running for safety in central Paris after an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak rocked the city Wednesday afternoon, according to police and firefighters. The incident took place around 4:55 p.m. local time at the Paris American Academy on…
( (KYIV, Ukraine) -- Doctors at Ukraine's leading trauma hospital are working around the clock to save the most badly wounded soldiers as the country continues its counteroffensive against Russian forces. In the last year, a team of 100 surgeons has performed 2,000 trauma operations at the hospital, the hospital's director…
(BUCHAREST, Romania) -- Andrew Tate, the notorious influencer detained in December by Romanian officials, made his first court appearance as a defendant on Wednesday after being charged with rape, human trafficking and creating an organized crime group. Tate faces the charges along with his brother, Tristan, another internet personality, and…
(LONDON) -- A Delta Airlines pilot has been arrested in Scotland for allegedly being over the alcohol limit, known as the "Drink-Fly" limit, police said. Lawrence Russell Jr., 62, was charged under the Section 93 of the Railways and Transportation Safety Act and appeared on Monday afternoon at Edinburgh Sheriff's…
(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. ranking for gender equality worldwide fell significantly over the past year due to a widening gap in political empowerment and health outcomes between men and women, according to a study released on Tuesday by the World Economic Forum. The report, which assesses equity between men…
(NEW YORK) -- Andrew Tate, the influencer detained in December by Romanian officials, has been charged with rape, human trafficking and creating an organized crime group, local prosecutors said in a statement on Tuesday. Tate faces the charges along with his brother, Tristan, another internet personality, and two other women,…
