The vice president said the military campaign to destroy Iran's nuclear and conventional forces is over, with the next stage focused on preventing Tehran from ever rebuilding them.
A 220-pound ram wandered into a concrete pipe in a Somerset village and couldn't back out, so a fire crew improvised with chimney rods and a hearth sheet to slide him free.
A seven-story residential building already damaged by an Israeli strike fell overnight in the Tal al-Hawa district, trapping dozens of Palestinians rescuers say they lack the machinery to save.
A flying stowaway sent passengers ducking and a ScotRail worker reaching for a flag on a service between Gourock and Glasgow Central.
Italian Eurofighters scrambled from Šiauliai brought down an unmanned aircraft that crossed from Belarus, the first time NATO forces have destroyed a drone over Lithuania.
Andrea Marazzi spent nearly a year narrowing a scrapped 1993 Fiat Panda to just 19.76 inches wide, driving shoulder-first into the record books with parts pulled from his family's scrapyard.
Investigators are probing whether an electric vehicle in the cargo hold triggered the blaze that engulfed the MV June Aster off Palawan, killing dozens and leaving 13 still unaccounted for.
As a rough El Niño season strands more Humboldt penguins along Chile's coast, researchers are testing antimicrobial vests to keep the birds from picking their own stitches.
Saudi Arabia halted its East-West pipeline after drones launched from Iraqi territory struck the line near Medina, cutting one of the last major routes for Gulf crude to bypass the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.
Leah Shutkever reclaimed a record she first set in 2019 — then broke two more in the same afternoon at Guinness World Records' London headquarters.
The Iran-backed group's biggest territorial gain since a 2022 truce raises the threat to Red Sea shipping and the risk of a full return to war, the UN's Yemen envoy warns.
A jet-propelled drone entered Moldovan airspace and forced a shutdown just as Volodymyr Zelensky's plane prepared to depart, an incident Moldova's ambassador called unlikely to be a coincidence.
Two truckloads of stout worth roughly £205,000 vanished from an industrial estate near Liverpool in a two-stage overnight heist.
Oil surged toward $100 a barrel after the U.S. military destroyed five tankers tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Tehran retaliated with a missile barrage on a base in Jordan, the sharpest exchange yet in a war now in its seventh month.
Wrapped in plain paper and packed alongside his clothes, the souvenir from a Miami stopover triggered a CITES investigation the moment it hit an X-ray scanner in Turin.
Sarajevo recalls embassy staff and freezes cooperation with Belgrade after Serbia gave convicted genocide commander Ratko Mladić a state funeral with full military honors.
The season's largest Northern Hemisphere calving event drifted into Joe Island off Petermann Glacier without shattering, giving glaciologists a rare look at how modern ice islands hold together on impact.
The AfD won 43.8% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, more than double its 2021 showing, and came within three seats of a majority — but Germany's postwar 'firewall' against governing with the far right held, for now.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner head to Kyiv Sunday for the first time, after a three-hour Kremlin meeting produced a mutual halt to strikes on Kyiv and Moscow — but no breakthrough on territory.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday before traveling to Kyiv for talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, in the envoys' first joint visit to the Ukrainian capital since Trump returned to office.
A stowaway barn owl fell into the water three times before collapsing on deck during an offshore yacht race around Britain and Ireland. The crew nursed her back from exhaustion without ever leaving the competition.
More than 4,200 people remain missing after a glacier-linked flash flood tore through Himalayan valleys, in Nepal's deadliest disaster since the 2015 earthquake.
Tehran says it hit satellite communications, hangars and radar sites at two Gulf Arab bases in retaliation for renewed US strikes, drawing allies who never joined the war deeper into it.
German authorities opened a terrorism probe after saboteurs hit two power substations hundreds of miles apart within hours of each other, reviving fears of a wider Russian-linked campaign against European infrastructure.
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cairo this week for talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, pressing new economic and security ties with one of Washington's oldest Arab partners as America's war with Iran unsettles the region.
New Central Command strikes on Iranian air-defense and radar sites drew missile and drone retaliation against U.S.-linked bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, while a strike on a wedding in southern Iran killed at least four people and wounded dozens.
Satellite trackers lost, then relocated, a floating raft of driftwood and trees the size of two football fields adrift on one of North America's largest reservoirs.
Nepal's disaster agency counted 987 dead and nearly 4,000 missing six days after a glacier's bedrock gave way in the Himalayas, sending a wall of rock and meltwater into two river valleys.
A new joint venture gives an American-led company effective majority control of 65 billion barrels across 17 fields — the most tangible sign yet of how completely US-Venezuela relations have shifted since Maduro's capture nine months ago.
A decade-old homegrown Cayenne strain produced a 20.6-inch pod, giving Swiss gardener Jürg Wiesli his third Guinness World Record for the longest chili pepper.
Harald, Europe's oldest reigning monarch, died at Oslo University Hospital after more than a week's treatment for a blood disorder; his son automatically becomes King Haakon VIII.
An Austrian climber's pack, abandoned in a crevasse in 1963, turned up intact on a shrinking Tyrolean glacier — one more artifact a warming Alps has given back.
A massive ice-and-rock collapse high in the Himalayas dammed and then unleashed a river Wednesday, burying villages on the Nepal-Tibet border and leaving hundreds of foreign trekkers, including dozens of Australians bound for Mount Kailash, unaccounted for.
John Ratcliffe became the first sitting CIA director to visit Moscow since 2021, in a secretive trip that came as U.S.-brokered peace talks with Russia remain deadlocked.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said kinetic strikes against Iran have not been ruled out and called the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz 'ironclad,' as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled 'Operation Economic Outcast,' a sweeping sanctions campaign targeting Iran's oil, shipping and financial networks.
A Montagu's harrier known only as AU has fathered at least 16 chicks since 2018 — six of them this year, with two different mates — as conservationists guard his nest sites in secret.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised sweeping new measures against Tehran and its remaining trade partners as a 60-day ceasefire expired with the war unresolved.
Clément Vandenkerckhove, 26, became a prince after Prince Laurent formally acknowledged him as his son, though he gains no claim to the Belgian throne.
Voters chose 145 lawmakers for a newly created single-chamber legislature Sunday, capping a year-long constitutional overhaul that critics say leaves the country's political system firmly under President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's control.
Four Paws began moving big cats from the long-closed Luján Zoo outside Buenos Aires to sanctuaries in Colorado and South Africa, ending years of uncertainty over their fate.
The president called it the "most crushing economic operation ever taken against any country," as the six-month-old conflict grinds on and crude oil jumps toward $94 a barrel.
Animal-welfare group Four Paws began flying big cats out of the shuttered Lujan Zoo to sanctuaries in South Africa and Colorado, in one of the largest such relocations on record.
A network of hand-dug mining tunnels collapsed in western Central African Republic, killing more than 100 people in one of the country's deadliest mining disasters on record.
A missile and drone barrage killed at least 16 people and tore through apartment blocks and a children's hospital, as a shortage of Patriot interceptors leaves Kyiv increasingly exposed.
A night-long assault combining ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons and drone swarms struck more than two dozen sites across the Ukrainian capital as US-brokered peace talks remain stalled.
Dubai IT engineer Pushpajothi Ravikumar crammed short, three-letter words edge to edge to become the first person ever certified for the feat.
Mykhailo Fedorov's video address, delivered hours after Zelensky moved to permanently replace him, marks the most direct public challenge yet to the president's authority since Russia's 2022 invasion.
The state-run oil giant confirmed hydrocarbons at a deepwater well off Amapá, reviving debate over drilling near one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems months before Brazil's presidential election.
A Japanese macaque who vanished from a Highland wildlife park for a day returned to his habitat unassisted, ending a search that included thermal-imaging drones.
Zambia's electoral commission declared President Hakainde Hichilema the winner with just over 60% of the vote, following a count disrupted by a gunfire raid on opposition figures and a suspended tally.
More than 600 drones targeted the Russian capital region overnight in the heaviest assault on Moscow in roughly two years, hours after Russian strikes killed at least ten people in a Kharkiv-region village.
The death toll has passed 2,300 and is rising faster than any previous Ebola epidemic, health officials said, as the WHO warns it could soon eclipse the deadliest outbreak ever recorded worldwide.
Trump's son-in-law met Hamas's top leader for the first time since last year's ceasefire before flying to Israel to press Benjamin Netanyahu on a 15-point roadmap the prime minister has already rejected.
Hundreds of drones struck Russian regions overnight, while Russian strikes hit Ukrainian cities in return, in one of the most intense exchanges of the nearly 4½-year war.
Two waves of Israeli airstrikes killed at least 11 people in south Lebanon, the deadliest barrage since a June framework agreement, days before a fresh round of Rome-mediated talks.
A magnitude-7.7 quake struck before dawn Saturday, killing at least 47 people on Flores Island and burying roads under landslides that have cut off remote communities from rescue crews.
Westminster's plan to push pub-goers off their feet and onto barstools in Soho has united landlords, the mayor's office and Downing Street in opposition.
A blaze that reached the town's Borak neighborhood overnight burned some 900 hectares and sent harbor boats out to help evacuate roughly 1,200 people amid a brutal Balkan heatwave.
A shallow quake struck before dawn near Ende, unleashing three strong aftershocks and cutting off communications to the district closest to the epicenter, where rescuers have yet to arrive.
An 18-year-old summer worker was among the crew who found roughly 50 gold bars and a haul of coins sealed into a charity's basement wall in Dendermonde — now the subject of an ownership investigation.
The Constitutional Council found the would-be first-in-Europe ban too broad and a disproportionate restriction on free expression, sending Macron back to the drawing board.
Palestinian families in Qusra remain trapped after a military eviction order was rescinded hours after it became public, while the settlers who besieged them were allowed to stay.
Chiba Prefecture logged nearly three times its typical August rainfall in half a day, cutting power to tens of thousands and paralyzing transport into one of Tokyo's main airports.
A preliminary US report on last month's Thessaloniki-to-Memmingen flight found metal fatigue in the fan blade despite recent inspections, and bird remains inside the failed engine.
With more than 2,000 deaths and cases spreading across five provinces, the WHO says the Bundibugyo-strain outbreak is on pace to become the deadliest Ebola epidemic ever recorded.
A magnitude-7.4 quake has killed at least 224 people and left more than 1,400 missing, testing a five-week-old government as crews dig through collapsed buildings in Cali and Pereira.
Lawmakers approved a bill tying amnesty to full disarmament, a fragile next step in ending a four-decade conflict.
As mine-clearing crews work the strait and shipping traffic stays a fraction of pre-war levels, Trump countered Iran's own reparations demand with one of his own, hardening a standoff that has choked a fifth of the world's oil trade since February.
Overnight strikes hit ten regions from Zaporizhzhia to Kyiv, and Zelensky said Moscow is now firing North Korean ballistic missiles as Pyongyang deepens its military support for the Kremlin.
Rescue crews raced through collapsed hospitals and apartment blocks in five cities as Colombia's newest president declared a national disaster in just his fourth day in office.
Brasilia downgraded diplomatic representation to chargé d'affaires level after Argentina's president called Lula a thief, marking the sharpest rupture between South America's two largest economies in decades.
A record overnight drone barrage killed at least 12 people and struck a major oil and petrochemical hub in Tatarstan, deepening Ukraine's campaign against Russian energy infrastructure.
Ten months into the truce, Israeli forces are still carrying out strikes and demolitions, and a late-July roadmap for Hamas to disarm has stalled over a dispute about which side must move first.
A Houthi missile attack wounded 11 civilians near the Yemen border as Riyadh, Islamabad and Ankara signed a mutual-defense treaty in Mecca — even as US officials quietly search for an exit from the wider war with Iran.
A strike on the village of Pukhivka destroyed a house and two vehicles as Moscow continues a monthslong escalation of harder-to-intercept ballistic missile attacks.
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement pledges mutual protection among the three nations as U.S. munitions stockpiles show signs of strain from the ongoing conflict.
Kyiv's drones reached hundreds of miles into Russian territory overnight, hitting refineries Zelensky says fund the Kremlin's war, as Moscow's retaliatory strikes killed six in Ukraine.
The BBC reports a fresh surge of Russian strikes on Odesa's port infrastructure, part of a broader escalation that has also seen Ukraine hit Russian oil refineries far from the front line.
Security forces freed hostages taken in separate attacks in Niger and Kwara states, including 163 people abducted from the Woro community in February.