Rescue teams on Sunday in Turkey successfully carried an American researcher up from the depth of a cave at 1,040 meters (3,410 feet) to the 700-meter (2,297 feet) mark.
There will be no gold medal for the U.S. at this World Cup. And for the second consecutive time in FIBAβs biggest tournament, there might not be any medal at all for the Americans.
Spanish soccer player Jenni Hermoso has accused Luis Rubiales of sexual assault for kissing her on the lips without her consent after the Womenβs World Cup final, the country's prosecutorsβ office said Wednesday.
It *is* the peak of hurricane season, after all.
Russiaβs civil aviation agency says mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was aboard a plane that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday. All 10 people aboard were killed. Prigozhin led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year.
India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moonβs south pole on Wednesday β a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water, and a technological triumph for the worldβs most populous nation.
Some Bank of Ireland customers were able to withdraw money they did not have Tuesday and early Wednesday after an hours-long technical glitch that also halted many of the bank's online services.
Hawaiiβs governor is warning that scores more people could be found dead following the wildfires on Maui. His statement comes as search crews go street by street through neighborhoods where the flames galloped as fast as a mile a minute across the landscape. The death toll stands at 96.
Members of Ethiopiaβs LGBTQ+ community say they face a wave of online harassment and physical attacks and blame much of it on the social media platform TikTok, which they say is failing to take down posts calling for homosexual and transgender people to be whipped, stabbed and killed.
A man in Bosnia shot and killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram and then killed two other people while on the run before taking his own life Friday, according to police and media reports.
Hawaii emergency management records show no indication that warning sirens sounded before people ran for their lives from wildfires on Maui that killed at least 55 people andΒ wiped out a historic town.
A funeral home in El Salvador has taken Barbie mania to an extreme, offering pink coffins with Barbie linings.
The U.S. military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at stopping Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels.
A nonprofit organization that researches links between social media, hate and extremism has been sued by X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The Center for Countering Digital Hate regularly publishes studies looking at hate speech and misinformation on sites like X, Facebook and TikTok.
Many tick-borne illnesses are becoming more prevalent with some experts attributing it to climate change. Medical researchers are particularly concerned about tick-borne encephalitis virus, or TBEV, due its prevalence and the way it has managed to jump from country to country so quickly.
With heat waves spreading across the United States, President Joe Biden has announced new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible. These actions come as as nearly 40% of the U.S. population faces heat advisories.
Singer-songwriter SinΓ©ad OβConnor has died at 56. The gifted and troubled Irish performer was known for her shaved head and for her fierce and expressive voice.
A former Air Force intelligence officer has testified that the U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects.
Elon Musk has unveiled a new βXβ logo to replace Twitterβs famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an already warming Earth steamed to its hottest June on record, smashing the old global mark by nearly a quarter of a degree, with global oceans setting temperature records for the third straight month.
