Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two people have been detained in a northern Chinese county after local police say a portion of the Great Wall of China was destroyed with an excavator. A release from the Youyu County Public Security Bureau states a 55-year-old man and 38-year-old woman were working at a
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularized beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavored song Margaritaville —and turned that celebration of loafing into a billion-dollar empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions — has died. He was 76. “Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1st surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs,”
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group who led an aborted revolt against President Vladimir Putin earlier this summer, was listed as a passenger on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday, according to Russia’s aviation agency. The Federal Air Transport Agency, also known as Rosaviatsiya, published a list
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Seven people were left injured when an attraction at Germany’s biggest theme park came tumbling down last week, police said. The accident at Europa-Park in Rust, a town near the French and Swiss borders, was captured in a shocking video showing diving platforms and acrobats plummeting into
A small town in Australia is reeling after three people died in quick succession, with another fighting for his life, after they went to lunch with their relative who still remains unharmed. The case has captured international attention over speculation that the host may have poisoned her guests with death cap mushrooms. Erin Patterson, 48
A small town in Costa Rica is reeling after a local soccer player was killed by a crocodile Saturday when he jumped into a river to cool off after exercising, Costa Rican media has reported. Jesús “Chucho” Alberto López Ortiz was just 29-years-old when he died and leaves behind a wife and two children, Derian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke more than two months of public silence over deadly ethnic clashes in India’s northeast, saying Thursday that the assaults of two women as they were being paraded naked by a mob in Manipur state were unforgivable. A video showing the assaults triggered massive outrage and was widely shared on social
Lost at sea for months on a disabled catamaran, with no way to cook and no source of fresh water but the rain, Australian Timothy Shaddock said he expected to die. There was a lot to like about the experience, he said. Like when he would plunge into the sea for a swim, or when
Descrease article font size Increase article font size An Australian sailor who was stranded for months off the coast of Mexico with his dog Bella is finally back on dry land after being rescued by fishers. Tim Shaddock, 51, of Sydney was attempting to sail from the Mexican city of La Paz to French Polynesia
A massive air and land search that has involved hundreds of police, soldiers, rescue workers and volunteers has been called off four days after a two-and-a-half-year-old boy went missing from the small French village of Le Vernet. The missing toddler, identified only as Émile, has still not been found, and the search for him across