Month: July 2021

Russia disconnected from the worldwide internet during tests in June and July, a Russian news service, RBC, reported on Thursday. The information for the report came from documents from a…

Captain Tejinder Singh has not set foot on dry land in more than seven months. He is not sure when he will go home. Singh is among tens of thousands…

A female elephant makes a rare appearance on the edge of a thick forest in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. She eats and cleans up in the water as a large…

In Serbia’s capital, people are going out again after over a year of restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of the new coronavirus. However, the loud music and other noise…

After a one-year delay, the Tokyo Olympics officially began Friday. The Games began with the opening ceremony, which looked different than usual because of COVID-19 restrictions. Fewer than 1,000 people…

At least 25 people have died from heavy rains in China’s central province of Henan. Twelve of them died in a flooded underground train in Henan’s capital, Zhengzhou. Officials had…

Cuba largely kept coronavirus infections low last year. But now, the Caribbean nation has the highest infection rate per person in Latin America. That is threatening the country’s health care…

The government of Greenland has decided to suspend all oil exploration off the Arctic island’s coast. Officials say it is “a natural step” because the government “takes the climate crisis…

New research suggests that the actual number of COVID-19 deaths in India could be as much as 10 times the official count. An independent, non-government report released Tuesday estimates the…

The world needs to see that Japan can hold the Summer Olympic Games safely, the country’s prime minister told sports officials Tuesday. Thousands of athletes, officials, event workers and media…

Students from New Zealand have developed sustainable materials made from the leaves of a tree local to New Zealand, the cabbage tree, and a plant whose seeds are often eaten,…

News reporters and media groups are upset over reports that governments may have hacked their mobile phones. A kind of software known as “spyware” may have been used to control…

Pope Francis placed limits Friday on the use of Latin in the Roman Catholic Church service called Mass. The decision cancels a reform established by Pope Benedict XVI, who led…

Major Fannie Griffin McClendon never thought too much about being part of the only Black female United States army group to serve in Europe during World War II. Neither did…

Africa’s Sahel is seeing the worst effects of climate warming anywhere on the planet, says the United Nations, or U.N. The Sahel is a region of western and north-central Africa…