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Russia targets key Ukraine Black Sea port of Odesa, a day after halting grain export deal
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian forces shot down scores of exploding drones and six cruise missiles from a pre-dawn Russian attack on the port of Odesa on Tuesday, Ukrainian authorities said, a day aft...
Jul 18, 2023
Scientists head to Nunavut island to help solve Mars methane mystery
AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND, NUNAVUT - A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hopes of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars. Astrobiologist Haley Sapers, an adjun...
Jul 18, 2023
B.C. expected to surpass record 2018 wildfire season for most area burned
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is encroaching on its worst wildfire season on record as more than 370 fires burn in the province. BC Wildfire Service figures show wildfires have consumed more than 12,90...
Jul 18, 2023
She planted more than 4,500 trees in a day and found an audience of millions
To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don't move like a gardener, you move like a machine. In a video viewed millions of times on social media, Leslie Dart walks across a desolate and burnt l...
Jul 18, 2023
Israeli protesters block highways in 'day of disruption' against Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israeli protesters blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv's stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Mi...
Jul 18, 2023
Mystery object that washed up on the Australian coast could be space junk, officials say
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - Authorities were investigating on Tuesday whether a cylindrical object about the size of a small car that washed up on a remote Australian beach is space junk from a foreign...
Jul 18, 2023
South Korea searches for missing people as death toll from downpours reach 41
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Rescuers searched Tuesday for about 10 people still missing in landslides and other incidents caused by more than a week of torrential rains in South Korea, as the country's ...
Jul 18, 2023
Capelin feed Newfoundland's puffins and whales, and some worry they're in trouble
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Marine scientists and conservationists are calling on officials to pause Newfoundland and Labrador's commercial capelin fishery. The tiny shimmering fish are an important staple in ...
Jul 18, 2023
German director of Florence's Accademia Gallery who fought for David's image worries for job
MILAN (AP) - The German director of Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia has succeeded in drawing visitors' attention to masterpieces beyond Michelangelo's towering David, while winning landmark court c...
Jul 18, 2023
Spain's early election could put the far right in power for the first time since Franco
MADRID (AP) - Spain's general election on Sunday could make the country the latest European Union member swing to the populist right, a shift that would represent a major upheaval after five years und...
Jul 18, 2023