Jane Goodall is world-famous for her work with chimpanzees. Now her focus turns to a different crowd
In 1960, on the banks of Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania, one young British woman would set out to change what we know about primates forever.
Jordan walks a tightrope after downing Iranian drones and missiles
As the skies over Amman and other Jordanian cities lit up with Jordan’s interception of Iranian drones and missiles headed for Israel last weekend, officials in the country
Chilean report into LATAM Airlines flight plunge finds ‘involuntary movement forward’ from pilot’s seat
A preliminary report from Chile’s aviation authority on the LATAM Airlines plane that plunged mid-air on March 11 says that the captain’s seat experienced an “involuntary movement forward”
Prehistoric marine reptile may have rivaled the blue whale in size
A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known
A lake in Mexico’s ‘magical town’ is disappearing. Authorities blame drought, and theft
A popular lake in central Mexico that is a major tourist destination during the Day of the Dead festivities is drying up due to drought, deforestation, and the
Brazilian police detain woman suspected of taking a dead man to withdraw bank loan
Police in Brazil have detained a woman suspected of wheeling a dead man, who she said was her uncle, to a bank to withdraw a four-figure loan.
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest
Myanmar’s detained former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, a spokesperson for the military government told media.
Ancient skeletons unearthed in France reveal Mafia-style killings
More than 5,500 years ago, two women were tied up and probably buried alive in a ritual sacrifice, using a form of torture associated today with the Italian
Cash, drugs and booze among record election bribes seized by India
A record quantity of bribes, including cash, booze, drugs and precious metals, has been seized by Indian election authorities in the run-up to mammoth nationwide polls that begin
Ukraine ‘ran out of missiles’ to thwart Russian strike on power plant, Zelensky says
A lack of air defenses meant Ukraine was powerless to prevent a Russian airstrike last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in Kyiv region, President Volodomyr Zelensky
Astronomers spot a massive ‘sleeping giant’ black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space.
Netanyahu is betting Israeli blood on Iran’s read of his rift with America
Israel, aided by its allies, dodged a bullet Sunday. To be more precise,
Violent clashes break out in Georgia amid controversial ‘foreign agents’ law debate
Violent clashes erupted between protesters and police in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, on Tuesday as the country’s parliament continued debating a controversial “foreign agents” bill, criticized by Western and
NASA says it expected space station garbage to burn up. The debris smashed into a Florida home instead
A piece of garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station unexpectedly survived a fiery reentry from orbit last month and pierced the roof of a home in Florida,
Zelensky signs law overhauling Ukraine’s mobilization rules
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law a key piece of legislation overhauling the country’s mobilization rules.