[ad_1] As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a “lucifer” bee with devil-like horns. The species, dubbed Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, was found in the state of Western Australia, Curtin University announced on Tuesday. Kit Prendergast at the university’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences discovered the bee…
[ad_1] Severe coastal erosion caused by Typhoon Kalmaegi exposed a centuries-old shipwreck in Vietnam, providing a narrow window to salvage what experts say could be a historically significant find. Initially discovered in 2023 off the coast of Hoi An, the 57-foot vessel — whose heavy wood-ribbed hull survived hundreds of years of rough seas almost…
[ad_1] Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was released from prison on Monday after a Paris court granted him release under judicial supervision. Monday’s announcement came less than three weeks after Sarkozy, 70, began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy left…
[ad_1] U.N. climate negotiations get underway Monday at a meeting on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, with leaders pushing for urgency, cooperation and acceleration after more than 30 years fighting to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it. André Corrêa do Lago, president of this year’s conference, known as…
[ad_1] New Delhi — A car exploded near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital Monday, killing at least eight people, injuring several others and triggering a fire that damaged several vehicles parked nearby, New Delhi police said. Several fire engines rushed to the scene after the blast was reported near one of the gates…
[ad_1] Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa will meet President Trump at the White House on Monday, continuing a stunning reversal of fortunes for a man branded until three days ago as an international terrorist by the U.S. government with a $10 million bounty on his head. The former leader of an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria disavowed…
[ad_1] The U.S. military has killed six more people in strikes on what it claims were drug-running boats, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday, bringing the total death toll in the series of attacks to 76. Hegseth said in a post on X that the U.S. carried out two strikes on Sunday in international waters in the…
[ad_1] London — Britain is sending anti-drone equipment and personnel to Belgium after a spate of sightings near airports and military bases, the head of the U.K. military said Sunday. While Belgium and the U.K. have not accused anyone of flying the unidentified drones, they’re the latest in a growing trend of airspace violations by…
[ad_1] Manila, Philippines — Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least six people and displacing more than 1.4 million others. Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines while the country was still dealing with the devastation wrought by Typhoon Kalmaegi,…
[ad_1] A Malaysian court remanded popular rapper Namewee in custody on Monday, his lawyer said, part of a murder investigation looking into the death of a Tawainese influencer in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room. Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, handed himself over to police on Wednesday after he was named a “person…
