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VENICE — Claude Lelouch is 86 years old. He has been making movies for six decades. On September 2, 2024, he premiered his latest film, Finalement, at the 81st

In Recife, Brazil, the church roof that collapsed on August 30, 2024, killing two people and injuring 20 others, was not a sanctuary for Sunday worship alone. I

The ground on Jalan Masjid India did not just break. It vanished. On August 23, 2024, a tourist from India fell eight meters into a sinkhole that opened beneath

A devastating explosion at a pharmaceutical facility in Anakapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India, has left at least seventeen workers dead and 41 others injured, with

Yemen’s national weather agency has issued a severe weather alert warning of “very heavy thunderstorms” to come. This follows a nearly three-week period of heav

A devastating road accident in the Philippines has resulted in the loss of at least eight lives, all from the same family, after their van collided with a deliv

The Wow! signal, that famous 72-second radio blip from 1977, now has an explanation. And it changes nothing — and everything. Scientists announced on August 16

A groundbreaking discovery has shed new light on one of the most enduring mysteries in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. On August 16, 2024, scienti

Sheikh Hasina's 16-year uninterrupted rule as Prime Minister of Bangladesh came to an abrupt end in August 2024, following the July Uprising against her government....

Tropical Storm Ernesto has intensified into a hurricane, with the storm's center located north of Puerto Rico as of today, August 14, 2024. This development has

The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, came to a close on August 11, 2024, after 18 days of...

Paris is now in elite company. The city became only the second in history to host the Summer Olympics three times when the 2024 Games closed on August 11. The f

One person is dead. Eleven others are wounded. The Islamic State struck again in Kabul on August 11, 2024, this time with a minibus bomb in the Dasht-e-Barchi a

The wreckage of the Voepass Linhas Aéreas ATR 72-500 lies scattered in Vinhedo, São Paulo. All 62 people on board are dead. That is the hard fact from August 9,

The European Union has taken a significant leap forward in regulating artificial intelligence with the Artificial Intelligence Act, which entered into force on August 1,...

The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) entered into force on August 1, 2024, marking a significant milestone in the regulation of artificial intelligence...

The tent was supposed to hold a hundred people in silent meditation. Instead, it became a trap. One person is dead. At least 40 others are injured. The collapse

A massive and destructive wildfire, known as the Park Fire, has broken out in Northern California's Butte and Tehama counties, ignited on July 24, 2024,...

Gold mining in Brazil has a long and storied history, dating back to the 1690s when Portuguese colonists first discovered the abundance of gold in...

Taiwan sits in the path of the most active typhoon basin on Earth. The northwestern Pacific Ocean churns out roughly 25 named storms each year. Geography is not

A devastating fire at a shopping mall in Zigong, Sichuan, China, has claimed the lives of at least 16 people, leaving a trail of destruction and grief in its wa

Twenty-five years. That is how long the Gaza Strip had gone without a single case of polio. The virus was gone. Eradicated. Then, on July 16, 2024, it was back.

The 2024 Antarctica heat wave was a significant and prolonged mid-winter increase in Antarctic temperatures, causing several regions of the continent to experience unusually high...

Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas on July 8, 2024, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rainfall that would ultimately claim 44 lives....