Camels are famous as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not immune to the extreme rise in temperatures in Africa. The Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt across the desert. “I can see
On July 21, 2025, a training aircraft took off from a Bangladesh Air Force base in Dhaka around 1:00 p.m. local time (07:00 GMT) and crashed shortly after in the Uttara neighborhood. Images from the scene hours after the crash showed dozens of emergency services workers sifting through the charred rubble in an attempt to
A fire killed 10 members of the same family, including five children, in a house in Lima, Peru’s capital, police say. The fire devastated the property in the southern district of La Victoria early Wednesday, General Oscar Arriola of the Peruvian National Police told local media. Five children, aged between 3 and 15, died, as
The Louvre Museum in Paris reopened its Galerie d’Apollon (Apollo Gallery) to visitors on Wednesday, nine months after jewels worth millions were stolen in a brazen heist. But the gallery, which once housed France’s crown jewels, reopened without any exhibits. “This is an iconic space within the Louvre, but it will no longer house the
A woman has been placed under formal investigation over the death last year in France of a British-South African mother of four. Karen Carter, 65, was found lying near her car with stab wounds by a friend in Trémolat, the Dordogne village where she had lived for more than a decade and managed two holiday
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who previously promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the city, now says he does not have the “authority” to do so. In a video posted on social media, Mamdani called on US officials to act on the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister
