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The Ariane 5 rocket is gone. After 27 years and 117 launches, the European workhorse lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, for the final time on July 5, 2023.

Abidjan’s population of 6.3 million, as of the 2021 census, packs into a city that has been growing fast since a new wharf went in back in 1931. That growth cre

For the first time, scientists have captured a clear picture of our own galaxy in the light of neutrinos—ghostly particles that streak across the universe virtu

The debris field left by the June 25 tornado in Martin County, Indiana, tells a brutal story. One person is dead. The storm carved a path through the community

The Cessna 208 Caravan that went down in Highland Papua on June 23 was not a rare or exotic machine. It was a workhorse, the kind of plane that keeps remote pla

The two dead in the train crash near M'saken were not statistics. They were people with names, families, and futures cut short in a moment of twisted metal and

A devastating train crash occurred near M'saken, in the Sousse Governorate of Tunisia, on June 21, 2023, resulting in the loss of two lives and injuring 31 othe

KATHMANDU — The rain has stopped in many places. The water has not receded. And the search for 28 missing people continues. Six bodies have been recovered so f

Friday morning in Niort, a city of about 60,000 people in western France, started with the ground shaking. A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit the area at shallow de

For years, astrobiologists have ticked off boxes on a cosmic checklist. Water? Found on Enceladus. Organic compounds? Detected. Energy sources? Confirmed. One b

A Historic Reunion in the Oval Office Reinforces Transatlantic Ties The United States and the United Kingdom reaffirmed their enduring alliance during a pivotal two-day…

Pakistan’s economy is entering a new fiscal year carrying the scars of the last one. The Economic Survey of Pakistan, released June 9 in Islamabad, paints a gri

A female American crocodile, kept alone for years in a Costa Rican zoo, produced an egg containing a fully formed stillborn offspring. The embryo was not father

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake struck Maubin, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar, on June 7, 2023, resulting in the loss of three lives. The quake is a stark reminder of th

A Chinese destroyer cut across the bow of the U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon on 3 June while the American ship was conducting a routine…

A devastating fire broke out at a refugee centre in Apolda, Thuringia, Germany, on June 4, 2023, resulting in the loss of one life and injuring ten others. The

A devastating train collision in the Balasore district of Odisha, India, has resulted in the loss of at least 288 lives and left more than 900 people injured. T

The launch of North Korea's spy satellite, Malligyong-1, has ended in failure after a malfunction in the second stage of the rocket caused the satellite to cras

A brutal attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has left 17 civilians dead, highlighting the ongoin

Typhoon Mawar is bearing down on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, prompting authorities to urge residents to seek refuge immediately. With winds reaching

Three years and five months after the first cases emerged in a Chinese city, the World Health Organization has formally ended the global emergency status for CO

On May 15, 2023, the sports world continues to grapple with the aftermath of the 2013 Indian Premier League spot-fixing and betting case, a scandal...

A significant milestone has been reached in the fight against malaria, a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affected an estimated 249 million people globally in 85...

Ghana just became the first country to approve a second malaria vaccine for children. The R21/Matrix-M shot got the green light from Ghana's Food and Drugs Auth