The Taliban’s effective ban on women’s work has sparked outrage over the dramatic loss of rights following the exclusion of millions of female teachers and girls from secondary education.
A body matching the description of Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old woman who went missing while on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, was discovered in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming.
The teenager was with her family at Bournville’s Rowheath Park when she was “momentarily lured” into a nearby wooded area around noon Saturday. The teen remains in custody for questioning.
Jamel Martinez, 18, set a fire in his 10th-floor apartment at NYCHA’s East River Houses at 105 E Street around 4:40 p.m. before jumping from the roof and dying, police sources said. The fire was put out by the FDNY, police said.
Girls were unable to return to secondary schools in Afghanistan today after the country’s new Taliban rulers ordered only boys and teachers to return to the classroom.
A UK teenager was hospitalized for emergency surgery after a USB cable got stuck in his penis, after several unsuccessful attempts to remove it himself, he went to the emergency department of his local hospital.
Three people were arrested for allegedly assaulting the hostess of a New York restaurant Thursday after she asked a group of diners visiting from Texas to show proof that they had been vaccinated before seating them.
A schoolboy was mauled to death by a family friend’s dog after he was left alone in a caravan with the animal, an investigation has found. The toddler appeared to have suffered defensive bite wounds, so it is possible he was trying to defend himself from the attack.
The giant Pacific octopus is the largest and longest-lived of all octopus species. The size record is held by a specimen 9 meters wide and weighing 272 kilograms. An average specimen is about 5 meters long and weighs 50 kilograms.
Thousands of Haitian migrants have congregated under and around a bridge in a small Texas border town, presenting a chaotic new challenge Friday to the Biden administration as it tries to manage the large number of asylum seekers who have arrived on U.S. soil.
A 15-year-old Texas boy murders his mother, father, sister and two dogs before posting graphic photos of their bodies on social media, warning that he would commit a school shooting and then commit suicide when police swooped in.
An Alabama mother was arrested on assault and other charges after she got into a fight with an 11-year-old boy on a Jefferson County school bus.
The father of a 7-year-old Michigan girl whose hair was cut by a teacher without her parents’ permission filed a $1 million lawsuit against the school district, a librarian and a teacher’s aide.
A mother of two shipwrecked sailors drank her own urine so she could nurse her children and keep them alive for four days after their boat was wrecked by a giant wave.
A new genetic manipulation company was born with a single, gigantic purpose: to save elephants from extinction and revive the extinct woolly mammoth.
