America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday.
The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s…
When Osaka first hosted the World Expo in 1970, a quarter-century after World War II, Japan’s economy was newly affluent and expanding so rapidly it was hailed as an economic miracle. The Expo broadcast that momentum to the world.
It was the…
The Syrian city was nearly empty in early March, its streets littered with burned cars. Shops were plundered, their windows shattered and locks shot off. Some buildings were little more than blackened walls and ash.
Emergency workers had turned a…
Nicola Coughlan, one of the many stars of Barbie and Lady Whistledown herself in Netflix’s Bridgerton, responded to a recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling with some choice words for British author J.K. Rowling and an impressive fundraising effort.
At last 92 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 others were injured over the past two days as Israel intensifies its operations across the enclave.
AFP via Getty ImagesPolice in Ecuador say they have arrested four people in connection with an attack by gunmen at a cockfighting ring in which 12 people died.
Weapons and replica police and army uniforms were…
A Tunisian court has handed down prison sentences of 13 to 66 years to politicians, businessmen and lawyers in a mass trial that opponents say is fabricated and a symbol of president Kais Saied’s authoritarian rule.
Businessman Kamel Ltaif…
Meenakshi RaghavanAn 82-year-old woman who teaches the ancient Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu says she has no plans to retire.
“I’ll probably…