Canada is widening its retaliation against US tariffs, and the latest list includes some surprisingly ordinary and highly specific products. Beginning September 8, Canada will impose additional tariffs of 15%, 25% or 50% on US...

A 400-year-old grave in Poland has given archaeologists an unusually detailed glimpse into the fears and superstitions that surrounded death in 17th-century Europe. When researchers excavated the grave in 2022, they found the remains of...

Around 1,800 people in northern Japan have come together to help move the massive Hirosaki Castle, using a centuries-old Japanese technique that allows traditional wooden structures to be relocated without dismantling them. The 396-ton castle...

Yanis Yushvaev, a 40-year-old businessman from Or Akiva, was shot dead in broad daylight at Caesarea Junction in central Israel on Monday, August 23, according to Israeli media reports. The killing has drawn attention because...

More than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped into the North Atlantic by European countries during the Cold War era. Now, decades later, an international team of scientists is heading into the deep ocean...

A massive Russian cargo aircraft has spent more than four years sitting on the ground at Toronto Pearson International Airport, unable to return home because of sanctions imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The aircraft...

British athletics coach and former Commonwealth champion Leon Baptiste, who had been reported as unreachable after traveling to Morocco, is currently serving a prison sentence in Marrakech after being convicted in a case involving the...

ChatGPT appears to be getting a little less formal — and, in some conversations, considerably more colorful. Users have recently reported instances of the chatbot using profanity, including the F-word, in otherwise ordinary conversations. The...

A plant associated with medicine, cooking and contraception in the ancient Mediterranean may have survived far longer than historians once believed. Turkish botanist Mahmut Miski has argued that Ferula drudeana, a rare plant growing on...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed senior presidential aide Iryna Mudra amid a widening anti-corruption investigation, adding another layer of political pressure on Kyiv’s wartime government. The move came just a day after former Defense...