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Rescuers managed to free a humpback whale that had been stuck on a sand bank on Germany's Baltic coast on Friday. The whale had been stranded for several days on the Timmendorfer Strand, with numerous rescue attempts failing to shift the marine mammal. The 12 to 15-meter long (39 to 49-foot long) animal must now

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The Mexican Navy activated search and rescue efforts in the Caribbean on Thursday, in hopes to locate two missing sailboats which were carrying humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Cuba. The boats left Isla Mujeres, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, last week and were bound for Havana. With nine people of different nationalities on board

The US Treasury Department says it is preparing to add President Donald Trump's signature to all dollar notes, a first for a sitting president. It is expected to appear next to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's signature and take the place of the US treasurer's name, which has been on the currency for more than 100 years.

CEO of Air Canada, Michael Rousseau, apologized Thursday for his English-only message of condolence after a deadly airplane crash in a runway at New York's LaGuardia airport. Two Air Canada pilots died when the Air Canada Jazz flight they were landing collided with a fire truck on the runway on Sunday. One of the pilots

Ousted Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro made his second appearance in a New York court since his dramatic capture and extraction by US forces. Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been held in a Brooklyn jail since the US deposed him and began cooperating with his successor, transforming the oil-rich nation from US foe amid

Skip next section Thank you for following our coverage March 27, 2026 Thank you for following our coverage We are closing this blog on all the latest headlines, videos, backgrounds and analyses on the US-Israeli war on Iran and its wider repercussions regionally and worldwide on March 26. You can still follow our rolling coverage

The warning from the Houthi militia was clear: "Yemen... has its finger on the trigger," Abdullah Sabri, spokesman for the Houthi-run Ministry of Foreign Affairs, cautioned earlier this week. The Houthis will take "appropriate measures" should the war against Iran continue. This includes any attempt to expand the war or deploy additional foreign forces, he

A partial government shutdown has caused widespread disruption across airports in the United States, with nearly 500 airport security officers quitting their jobs, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Thursday. It all comes as President Donald Trump's administration has not reached a deal with the US Congress to fund the department. As a

The United Nations General Assembly this week adopted a landmark resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity." It also calls on UN member nations to engage in talks "on reparatory justice, including a full and formal apology, measures of restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, guarantees of non-repetition and changes to laws, programs