Month: September 2020

A 70-year-old fossil hunter who amassed more than 8,000 valuable prehistoric remains could face jail time after police seized his collection. The Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) said in a press statement on Saturday that 8,244 […]

Former American collegiate rugby player Robert Paylor, paralyzed from the chest down three years ago, stood up by himself for the first time in 1,220 days. Paylor broke his neck during a championship game in […]

Armenian armored vehicles fired missiles at Azerbaijani tanks as the two countries inch closer to war over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia and Azerbaijan both reported military clashes on Sunday over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region […]

Australia’s koala population is making a comeback after a series of bushfires ravaged its habitats, thanks to a zoo that has been breeding the animals for 25 years. Billibong Zoo, Koala & Wildlife Park in […]

The gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman, allegedly by four upper-caste men, has sparked outrage in India. Protests have broken out in different parts of the country, demanding justice for the woman, who […]

James Comey told a Senate committee Wednesday that the FBI was too quick to seek wiretap warrants on Carter Page while it probed for possible links between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign The […]

The headlines about residential housing sales Thursday were triumphant. “Sales of new homes surged 4.8% in August,” reported ABC. “U.S. new home sales rise to near 14-year high,” noted Reuters. “New home sales surge to […]

HUESCA PROVINCE, Spain — A freelance paleontologist’s chance discovery of dinosaur eggshells in the Spanish Pyrenees has turned out to be the biggest-ever European archaeological find from dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. So […]

Tensions are high in the northern provinces of Sri Lanka in the wake of the Jaffna High Court’s ban on commemorations of the death of Rasaiah Parthiban, the revolutionary leader of the militant Liberation Tigers […]

Zaheer Hassan Mahmood, the 25-year-old charged with attempted terrorist attacks after wounding two people with a meat cleaver outside the former office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Sept. 25, is being praised by his […]