Climate change is making hurricanes wetter, because as the atmosphere warms it can hold more moisture. But Hurricane Sally is expected to dump as much as two and a half feet of rain on parts of the Gulf Coast over the next few days, and such enormous amounts cannot be …...Read More

More than 200 marauding macaque monkeys have been castrated in Thailand after a spate of raids on homes in search of food. The primates have roamed freely into the city of Songkhla, meeting little resistance due to the coronavirus lockdown. On Tuesday, a team of wildlife conservationists rounded up the …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military’s Africa Command is pressing for new authorities to carry out armed drone strikes targeting Qaeda-linked Shabab fighters in portions of eastern Kenya, potentially expanding the war zone across the border from their sanctuaries in Somalia, according to four American officials. The new authorities, which must …...Read More

Looking around in the darkness, Mr. Ravnsborg wrote, “All I could see were pieces of my vehicle laying on and around the roadway.” He shone his phone flashlight at the ditch but could not see anything, he said. The Hyde County sheriff, Mike Volek, arrived, surveyed the damage and filled …...Read More

June, July and August of 2020 created the hottest summer ever recorded in the Northern hemisphere, according to official data. When accounting for the Southern hemisphere as well, 2020 ranks as the world's third-warmest summer since records began in 1880. From the start of June to the end of August, …...Read More

Unlike many of Mr. Trump’s earlier ads that were purely attacks against Mr. Biden, this ad spends its final third proclaiming that Mr. Trump “is protecting Social Security and Medicare” while headlines from Trump-friendly publications like The New York Post flash across the screen. Fact Check During his 36-year Senate …...Read More

Kim Kardashian's social media posts gave armed robbers all the information they needed to carry out an £8.5million jewellery heist, one of them has admitted. Details of the 39-year-old American's slip-ups have emerged in legal papers filed in Paris, where the reality TV star was attacked at gunpoint after travelling …...Read More

A new trial is now underway for an Indiana man accused of raping and butchering his ex-girlfriend before eating parts of her body - as jurors have already been warned they will be shown crime scene photos worse than any horror film. Joseph Oberhansley's murder trial started in Clark County …...Read More

A baby boy found crying beside the body of his Ugandan asylum seeker mother in a Glasgow flat is at the centre of a looming custody battle between his father and his mother's family who want him to grow up in Africa. Sixteen-month-old Adriel was found hungry and distressed in …...Read More

A Chicago-area rabbi, who formerly owned a nursing home chain at the heart of the biggest default in the history of a federal mortgage-guarantee program, has been indicted by federal authorities on charges he bilked millions of dollars from investors. The indictment against Zvi Feiner and a business partner, Erez …...Read More