The day Japan came to a standstill is March 11, 2011. At 2:46 p.m., the country was hit by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded: a magnitude 9 in the Pacific Ocean, off the northeast coast. Forty minutes later, the second wave of the tragedy followed. A tsunami with walls of water over 10 meters high - nearly 40 in some places - inundated coastal cities and infrastructure.
In Kent, England, Inca, a German shepherd, did what no doctor had succeeded to do: by obsessively sniffing her owner Colleen Ferguson's breath, she pointed out a problem that no one knew how to diagnose. The woman, who did not smoke and showed no obvious symptoms, discovered a lung carcinoma the size of a golf ball, thanks to her dog's persistence.
Festive air, clouds of colored powders, singing and dancing: in India, celebrations for Holi began today, the national festival that marks the arrival of spring and which, in some villages, will continue for almost a week.
Art history continues to surprise us at times when we least expect it. Even with masters that have been studied for centuries, the past still preserves areas of shadow ready to come to light again. Such is the case right now in Amsterdam, where the Rijksmuseum attributes a painting from 1633 to Rembrandt van Rijn. The painting remained out of the official catalog for more than 60 years.
Pope Leo XIV urges priests not to use ChatGPT for their sermons (but the Vatican does use AI to translate Masses).
You and I probably wouldn't immediately think of it and probably associate gambling mainly with sports games. Yet a number of people bet big, and also won money on the assassination of Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This is what Reuters and Bloomberg are reporting.
In the heart of London's South Bank, at Observation Point, a new kind of fountain has appeared: it celebrates neither heroes nor classical myths.
Auctions are sometimes filled with unusual and bizarre items, and today it's Pierre Niney's used handkerchief that's up for auction for a sum that exceeds all expectations.
When we think of the great predators of Earth's history, our mind immediately turns to the Tyrannosaurus rex, a pop icon, a film and documentary star, the very embodiment of primordial force.
In 2024, Palitana, in India's Bhavnagar district, made history by becoming the first city to ban the sale and consumption of meat.