Cowabunga! Flood-swept cow washes ashore on beach, alive and mooing

The United Nations chief on Monday welcomed Kenya’s offer to “positively consider” leading a multinational police force to help combat Haiti’s gangs and improve security in the violence-wracked Caribbean nation. Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry sent an urgent appeal last October for “the immediate deployment of a specialized armed force, in sufficient quantity” to stop […]

One of the six Pakistani boys who was rescued Tuesday after the gondola he was traveling in became stuck nearly 1,000 feet in the air said Wednesday, “We thought all of us are going to die.”  Osama Sharif, 15, made the comment to The Associated Press following the daring rescue operation that unfolded in Battagram, […]

Traces of a toxic, colorless gas were found at the headquarters of Sweden’s security agency where a suspected gas leak last week forced authorities to evacuate some 500 people from the facility, a local paper reported Wednesday. The daily Svenska Dagbladet newspaper said authorities had found traces of phosgene. The gas has a strong odor […]