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(LONDON) — Over the last few years, fluorescence under ultraviolet light has been reported among many animals, including birds, reptiles, insects and fish. However, not much has been known about the frequency of fluorescence among mammals. Until now. In a new study published today by researchers from the Western Australian Museum and Curtin University, fluorescence […]

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A 21-year-old New York City college student who was recently sentenced to prison time in the United Arab Emirates over an altercation at a Dubai airport has been freed, an advocacy group said. Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a student at Lehman College in the Bronx, had been sentenced to […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A bus crash in Mestre, a suburb near Venice, and on Italy’s mainland, left 21 dead and 18 injured on Tuesday, according to Italian officials. The bus, which was carrying passengers to a campsite in Marghera, fell off of an overpass, police said on X, the platform formerly known […]

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A 21-year-old New York City college student has been sentenced to prison time in the United Arab Emirates over an altercation at a Dubai airport, an advocacy group said. Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a student at Lehman College in the Bronx, was sentenced to one year in prison after being […]

(LONDON) — A 16-year-old girl’s alleged assault at the hands of Iran’s “morality police” is renewing criticism of the regime more than one year after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini sparked nationwide protests. Armita Geravand, a student, was hospitalized in Tehran after an alleged encounter with police officers in a metro station southeast of […]

(LONDON) — The City of Light is battling an infestation of bedbugs as it prepares to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Videos recently posted on social media purportedly show the tiny, bloodsucking insects crawling on public transport in Paris and even in Charles de Gaulle Airport. With the Olympic Games less than a year away, […]

(TAMAULIPAS, Mexico) — Eleven people have died following a roof collapse at a church in Mexico on Sunday, according to local authorities. Everyone else has been removed from the debris, Mexican officials said Monday. The collapse, which trapped between 30 to 40 people, happened at the Iglesia Santa Cruz Church, a Catholic church in Madero, […]

(NEW YORK) — Pope Francis suggested it may be possible to bless same-sex unions in a newly public response to cardinals who questioned the pope’s affirmation of the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church. In the July letter, which is written in Spanish, he reaffirmed that “the Church has a very clear understanding of marriage: […]

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (TAMAULIPAS, Mexico) — Ten people have died following a roof collapse at a church in Mexico on Sunday, according to local authorities. The collapse, which trapped between 30 to 40 people, happened at the Iglesia Santa Cruz Church, a Catholic church in Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Mexican officials confirmed to ABC News. A […]

(LONDON) — Virtually the entire ethnic Armenian population of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled, with the last buses carrying refugees having left on Monday, according to Russia’s peacekeeping force deployed there. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians left the enclave in the last week, according to local officials, abandoning their homes after Azerbaijan, backed […]