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Sauna fire in Japan kills married couple, Tokyo police probing

Tokyo police are reportedly investigating what led to the couple becoming trapped in the sauna, suspecting the unit had a faulty doorknob, local media reported. 

A burned sauna stands in the yard of a home during the Flat Fire near Sisters, Oregon, U.S. August 25, 2025.
Mosquito bite, illustration.

Carrying babies in cloth treated with insecticide reduces malaria cases

eople look at the artifacts found during the construction of the new metro line at the Colosseum metro station which promise to dazzle locals and tourists with museum-like displays of archaeological discoveries, in Rome, Italy December 16, 2025.

New Rome metro stations showcase ancient treasures after years of delays

A couple kiss under the National Mistletoe exhibit in Washington DC, United States, December 13, 2025

‘Making Kiss-story’: DC’s lovebirds break record for most couples kissing under mistletoe


Letters from the dead: Letter written by WWI soldiers found in bottle off Australian coast

The letter penciled in 1916 finally reached the families of Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, decades after their death.

Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service at Bogan Gate in western New South Wales. Members of the Australian Lighthorse Association watch over an Anzac Day dawn service in the western New South Wales town of Bogan Gate, located 400 km (249 miles) west of

Rare wolf spider not seen since 1985 rediscovered on remote nature reserve

The last recorded sighting of the spider in the UK was in the National Trust’s Newtown nature reserve on the Isle of Wight in 1985.

The White-Knuckled Wolf Spider found at Newtown Nature Reserve in autumn 2025.

Multiple people charged in drug ring connected to death of Robert De Niro's grandson

Akira Stein, the daughter of Blondie co-founder Chris Stein, was also said to have perished as a result of drugs purchased through the network.

Robert De Niro attends the event Rendez-vous with... at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 14, 2025.

Israeli couple arrested in Thailand over waterfall romp recorded by angry locals

The couple’s intimate activities were recorded by locals and have since been leaked online.

Hikers walk towards a waterfall at the Oeschinensee as rock falls from the Spitzen Stein threatens the village amid climate change and warming permafrost pose increasing challenges in Kandersteg, Switzerland, June 26, 2025 (illustrative)

Fisherman digging for worms uncovers lost hoard of medieval coins

Sofia Andersson, an antiquarian at the County Administrative Board of Stockholm, said the discovery is “one of the largest silver hoards from the early Middle Ages ever found in Sweden.”

Ett unikt föremål bestående av tre myntkedjor av vikingatida engelska mynt, sammanfogade med silverringar och hängande på en kopparplatta. Fyra mynt längst till vänster sitter löst, och det är oklart om de har ingått i kedjan. Alla mynten är av de engelska Crux- och Long Cross-typer.

Monkey business: Authorities hunt for missing monkey after truck carrying primates overturns

Law enforcement shared that the truck’s driver warned them the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.”

Rhesus macaque monkeys hang from their cage at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, where the focus of study has shifted to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Covington, Louisiana, U.S., May 14, 2021.

Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was not just a teenage T. rex

Nanotyrannus and Tyrannosaurus both were members of a lineage of meat-eating dinosaurs called tyrannosaurs, but were not the same genus, the researchers said.

The skeleton of a Nanotyrannus lancensis is displayed as part of the "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs & Distinguished Fossils" collection at Bonhams auction house in New York, November 14, 2013. The "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs", a Nanotyrannus lancensis and a Chasmosaurine Ceratopsian which experts believe

Scientists try to prove link between Amazon gold mining and disabilities in babies

While scientists have warned of the risks that mercury could pose to Indigenous children in the Amazon, none have established a causal link to disabilities in their communities.

Indigenous women and children sit in a waiting room during a mission by researchers from the Brazilian public health institute Fiocruz to investigate health disorders among Munduruku Indigenous people that are potentially linked to mercury contamination caused by illegal gold mining, in Sai Cinza vi

Waltz invites Nicki Minaj to UN embassy after she speaks out in support of Christian Nigerians 

Trump on Saturday said he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible "fast" military action in Nigeria if the West African nation fails to crack down on the killing of Christians.

Nicki Minaj poses during the Met Gala, an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute with this year's theme 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' in New York City, New York, U.S., May 5, 2025.

Ecuador's president claims detractors tried to poison him with toxic jam and chocolate

Noboa said that the sweet treats had included a high concentration of three types of toxic substances.

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa reacts after his inauguration for a second term, at the Presidential Palace (Palacio de Carondelet) in Quito, Ecuador May 24, 2025.