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peng song/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — The bodies of those individuals who died in the August plane crash that killed Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin contained “fragments of hand grenades,” according to the Russian Investigative Committee tapped to look into the crash. The plane crash on Aug. 23 in the Tver region of Russia killed 10 […]

the_burtons/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Major cities around the world have experienced alarming temperature increases in recent years, new research shows. Average temperatures in several major cities in OECD countries have risen by more than 10% since 2019 alone, which could indicate amplified effects of climate change in the last decade, according to the Global […]

belterz/Getty Images (KYIV and LONDON) — At least 51 people, including a child, were killed Thursday in a Russian missile strike on a village in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, officials said. A 6-year-old boy and 62-year-old woman were among those killed in the attack, which targeted a building that housed a cafe and […]

belterz/Getty Images (KYIV and LONDON) — At least 49 people, including a 6-year-old boy, were killed Thursday in Russian missile strikes on a village in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, officials said. At least seven others were wounded in the attack, which targeted a building that housed a cafe and a shop in the […]

Jacqueline Anders/Getty Images (LONDON) — Over the last few years, fluorescence under ultraviolet light has been reported among many animals, including birds, reptiles, insects and fish. However, not much has been known about the frequency of fluorescence among mammals. Until now. In a new study published today by researchers from the Western Australian Museum and […]

Iain Lawrie/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A major class of vertebrate species is experiencing widespread population declines due to climate change, according to new research. Amphibians, the most threatened class of vertebrates, are deteriorating globally, with about 40% of more than 8,000 amphibian species studied categorized as threatened — a greater percentage than threatened mammals, […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A bus crash on Tuesday in Mestre, Italy, a suburb near Venice, left 21 dead, including two babies, and another 15 riders injured, according to officials. Prosecutors are investigating whether the 40-year-old driver suddenly became ill before the coach plunged off an overpass and onto a highway, officials said […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A bus crash in Mestre, a suburb near Venice, and on Italy’s mainland, left 21 dead and 18 injured on Tuesday, according to Italian officials. The bus, which was carrying passengers to a campsite in Marghera, fell off of an overpass, police said on X, the platform formerly known […]

Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Pope Francis suggested it may be possible to bless same-sex unions in a newly public response to cardinals who questioned the pope’s affirmation of the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church. In the July letter, which is written in Spanish, he reaffirmed that “the Church has a […]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images (LONDON) — A 16-year-old girl’s alleged assault at the hands of Iran’s “morality police” is renewing criticism of the regime more than one year after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini sparked nationwide protests. Armita Geravand, a student, was hospitalized in Tehran after an alleged encounter with police officers in a […]