Three teenagers have been arrested and accused of stealing a swan prized by its community in upstate New York, killing the beloved bird and eating it over the Memorial Day weekend, officials said. Police in Manlius, a southeast suburb of Syracuse, sounded the alarm this week after Faye, one of the village’s most iconic residents,…
A government official in central India has been suspended after he ordered the draining of more than 2 million liters (528,000 gallons) of water from a reservoir to retrieve a smartphone he dropped while snapping a selfie, according to official announcements and local media. Food inspector Rajesh Vishwas was on vacation near the Kherkatta dam…
Letter from Moscow: When war suddenly explodes over your roof | View caption Hide caption Safety In Moscow, it can be easy to ignore the devastating but faraway war in Ukraine. But that changes quickly when drones and anti-aircraft missiles start exploding in the skies overhead one morning. Had this occurred a couple of years…
North Korea said Tuesday it would launch its first military spy satellite in June and described space-based reconnaissance as crucial for monitoring the United States’ “reckless” military exercises with South Korea. The statement came a day after North Korea notified Japan’s coast guard that the launch, sometime between May 31 and June 11, might affect waters in…
Al Roker is getting back to regularly scheduled programming. The beloved weatherman returned to “TODAY” on Tuesday, less than one month after his total knee replacement surgery. “I’ve got a new knee,” he told co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, adding that he feels “all good.” Roker, 68, underwent the procedure May 9 and has since…
The Ukrainian government has officially denied any involvement in the – but an official said to be “pleased” to have seen it unfold. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky, went as far as to predict similar attacks could “increase” with time. Appearing on the Breakfast Show YouTube channel, he said: “Of course we…
Ukraine has been rocked by a second consecutive barrage of overnight Russian air strikes, it has been reported. Explosions were reported in Kyiv during the early hours of this morning as air defence systems were activated across Ukraine’s capital. The city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko reportedly said on Telegram that first responders were sent to the…
You may associate TikTok with hours lost to scrolling through short videos of everything from dogs to dance challenges, or perhaps you mainly know it as a topic of contentious debate. Either way, the social media platform has a surprising use case: making money. Many users are leveraging TikTok to bring in cash and believe…
LONDON — Armed police on Thursday arrested a man after a car was driven into the gates of Downing Street where Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and several other senior politicians reside. A man at the scene was arrested “on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. “There…