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Artemis crew's families enthralled by messages from space

Champions Cup 'heartbreak' driving Toulouse revenge mission

Shallow Indonesian quake damages houses, injures residents

Argentine MPs approve bill to allow mining in glaciers

'Chills': Artemis astronauts say lunar flyby still washing over them

Mountain-made: Balkan sheepdog eyes future beyond the hills

Escaped wolf forces school closure in South Korea

Gender-row boxer Lin targets Asian Games after bronze on comeback

Home where young Bowie dreamt of 'fame' to open to public

Crude rises, stocks fall on fears over nascent Iran ceasefire

Waiting for DeepSeek: new model to test China's AI ambitions

Artemis crew's families enthralled by messages from space

A week after astronaut Jeremy Hansen blasted off on the historic Artemis II mission to the Moon, his wife Catherine recalled the anxiety and thrill of witnessing the journey from afar.

Champions Cup 'heartbreak' driving Toulouse revenge mission

Toulouse hooker Peato Mauvaka is eyeing revenge on Sunday as the six-time Champions Cup winners head to Bordeaux-Begles in the quarter-finals after last season's "heartbreaking" loss to their French rivals in the last four.

Shallow Indonesian quake damages houses, injures residents

A shallow 4.9-magitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia overnight, damaging dozens of homes and injuring multiple people, an official said Thursday.

Argentine MPs approve bill to allow mining in glaciers

Argentine MPs approved a bill early Thursday promoted by President Javier Milei that authorizes mining in ecologically sensitive areas of glaciers and permafrost, and has outraged environmentalists.

'Chills': Artemis astronauts say lunar flyby still washing over them

They took thousands of photographs and documented copious observations on their voyage around the Moon, but as they sped closer to home the Artemis astronauts said Wednesday they have barely started processing the extraordinary experience they shared.

Mountain-made: Balkan sheepdog eyes future beyond the hills

At a remote monastery in North Macedonia's rugged west, Father Porfirij starts his day by feeding his large black Karaman sheepdogs, a breed that has guarded highland flocks for centuries.

Escaped wolf forces school closure in South Korea

A wolf that escaped from a zoo in South Korea remained at large Thursday, authorities said, prompting a local school to close over safety concerns as the search continued.

Gender-row boxer Lin targets Asian Games after bronze on comeback

Gender-row boxer Lin Yu-ting's coach said the Taiwanese Olympic champion would target Asian Games gold after stepping up in weight and winning bronze in her first event since the Paris Olympics.

Home where young Bowie dreamt of 'fame' to open to public

With its grey front door and battered picket fence, No. 4 Plaistow Grove in the anonymous London suburb of Bromley is unremarkable in every way except for one.

Crude rises, stocks fall on fears over nascent Iran ceasefire

Oil prices climbed and stocks fell Thursday on fears over the nascent US-Iran ceasefire after Tehran threatened to resume hostilities after Israel launched a major bombardment of Lebanon.

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