For years, we have imagined Earth's center as immobile: a compact, silent sphere hidden under thousands of miles of rock and molten metals. In textbooks, Earth's inner core is often described as a solid, stable mass, almost as if it had crystallized over time. A fixed point in a planet that on the surface, on the contrary, never stops changing.
Calm has still not returned to the tram network in Milan. It was another tense morning in the Lombardy capital when tram 27 caught fire shortly after 9 a.m. in Via Marco Bruto, in the Mecenate-Forlanini neighborhood. On board were some 20 passengers, including families with children, who were suddenly overcome by thick smoke and intense heat. A loud bang, described as "an abrupt emergency stop" preceded the chaos: doors flew open and people fled outside.
Japan is gearing up for a new season of sakura, the long-awaited season of cherry blossoms that transforms cities, parks and landscapes into soft, luminous scenes every spring. In 2026, as it does every year, this phenomenon promises to draw millions of travelers from all over the world to the Land of the Rising Sun. Those already in the process of planning a trip can get their bearings on the best time periods, cities and key spots to experience this natural and cultural spectacle to the maximum.
A bus traveling through the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland caught fire in the center of Kerzers. This killed at least six people and injured five others, three of whom are in critical condition.
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.