Emi Yagi’s slim and strangely exuberant second novel, “When the Museum Is Closed” (translated, from the Japanese, by Yuki Tejima), starts with a simple premise: its protagonist, Rika Horauchi, has a ...

ROME, Feb 18 (Reuters) - A marble elephant designed by Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini has been damaged, with its left tusk found snapped off and lying at the base of the monument in the heart of ...

No one expects an elephant to greet them in their backyard in the morning. And yet, that happened to the woman in this video. It started out as just another regular morning, with this woman going into ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass on the feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Jan. 6, 2026. Credit: OSV News photo/Yara Nardi, Reuters. In Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation ...

Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa — and unearthed new mysteries that may be hard to solve. By analyzing the bones and pyre ...

LOS ANGELES (KCAL) - Los Angeles police said they are looking into why a man was in the trunk of a Waymo vehicle when he should not have been. A mother in Southern California said she ordered a Waymo ...

The secretive African forest elephant is coming out of the shadows. The latest IUCN assessment of the species, which lives in dense rainforest, concludes there are over 135,000 of them, 16 per cent ...

This is truly amazing. I can’t believe my eyes! You never think animals are as intuitive as they prove themselves to be. Again and again, they show us that they know more about what’s going on than we ...

The woman reportedly feared for her life as she was forced into a detention center upon arriving to Ghana. A West African woman reportedly tried to commit suicide after being deported to a non-native ...

CAIRO, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations is to be increased from 12 to 16 teams at the next tournament in March, the Confederation of African Football has decided. There were to be ...