1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (750+ words) Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen seized a key island Friday after capturing a Red Sea port, moves that threatened to further disrupt international shipping in the region. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a…...

2+ day ago   (727+ words) By HANNA ARHIROVA, EMMA BURROWS and BARRY HATTON The dead are part of 1.5 million Russian casualties in Ukraine, Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Knighton, Chief of the U.K’s Defense Staff, said. The U.K. figures roughly coincide with those published by…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (669+ words) By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JILL LAWLESS After observing the somber 25th anniversary on Friday of the 9/11 attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, Trump plans to fly to Ireland for a weekend at his eponymous golf…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (216+ words) Boston Herald The bus overturned between the villages of Susch and Zernez in the Alpine canton of Graubuenden, and rescue teams were responding to the scene, authorities said. The police did not specify the number of dead and injured. According…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (541+ words) August’s sizzle also helped push the globe and the United States to swelter through the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer scientists have measured. Last month the world averaged 62.53 degrees Fahrenheit (16.96 degrees Celsius), which technically was one-hundredth of a degree Celsius more…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (348+ words) By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and MARK BANCHEREAU In recent weeks, new cases and deaths have declined in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, but risen sharply in neighboring North Kivu and Haut-Uele, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said at…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (331+ words) Scientists from the German Aerospace Center’s Institute of Space Research reported Thursday that Mercury’s shrinkage may be 30% greater than previously believed — a loss in diameter of as much as 14 miles. That’s significant for a planet barely 3,000 miles across. Mercury’s rough…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (252+ words) During World War II, Mengele served at the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where about 1.1 million people were killed, approximately 1 million of them Jews. He became infamous for carrying out brutal medical experiments on inmates, including children, under the…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (764+ words) In a smash-and-grab at another French museum, three masked robbers stole 27 pieces of jewelry valued at more than 4.5 million euros (US$5.2 million), busting through two doors to break in. Those thefts took place in July. This week, thieves sliced through…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (415+ words) Mokha is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital waterway between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden through which about 12 percent of the world’s oil and other goods are typically shipped. The Bab el-Mandeb has…...