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“Thank God the firefighters intervened,” Pope Francis said, referring to tiny Vatican City State’s own fire department.       

The Pope apologises to the crowds in St Peter's Square after getting trapped in the Vatican lift. It took the fire brigade 25 minutes t...

Australia downgrades the Great Barrier Reef's long-term outlook to "very poor" for the first time, as the world heritage site struggles...

Remarkable pictures have emerged from Far North, showing a look inside HMS Terror, one of the lost ships of the ill-fated Franklin Expeditio...

A one-legged skeleton found in July could solve a 200-year-old mystery of where one of Napoleon’s favorite generals was laid to rest.     ...

The private island owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was in Hurricane Dorian's path but appeared to miss a direct hit, fo...

Stromboli volcano erupts following explosion.       

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, sailed into New York Harbor on the zero-emission boat.       

A volcano in Italy erupted in a massive explosion for the second time in two months spewing ash into the atmosphere.       

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is preparing to ask Queen Elizabeth II to prorogue or suspend the U.K. Parliament from September u...

People demonstrate at Parliament Square and outside Downing Street against Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to suspend Parliament....

Dozens of dogs and their owners competed at a dog-friendly beach in Croatia. They had an ice cream and 'Pawsecco' eating contest....

More than 20,000 people are pelting each other with ripe tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” street battle in Spain.       

A medication mixup has led to more than a dozen babies being diagnosed with hypertrichosis in Spain. But what is "werewolf syndrome"?     ...

New satellite images from NASA show more wildfires in Africa than in the Amazon.       

Spain's 'Tomatina' battle involved 145 tons of tomatoes. The event was inspired by a 1945 food fight between local children....

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said local prosecutors should be investigated, saying the suspects had previously been arrested, but f...

Health concerns are growing, particularly among children, as the number of wildfires in Brazil has shot up in the last year.       

Every year, 250,000 British cats and dogs go to Europe with their humans, but a no-deal Brexit would cut U.K. out of EU pet passport program...

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish activist, wouldn't fly to New York for a United Nations summit on climate because of emissions fr...

Spain's 'Tomatina' battle involved 145 tons of tomatoes. The event was inspired by a 1945 food fight between local children....

Fires that have been ravaging the Amazon rainforest have raised questions about whether the world could survive with a devastated Amazon. ...

Queen Elizabeth II was asked by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend Parliament to force through Britain's departure from the Europe...

Playa Bagdad, referred to as 'Playa Baghdad' by the Drug Enforcement Agency, is known for crime, not migrants.       

Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut, condemned the Kremlin's decision as counterproductive and...