A 16-year-old Vancouver hiker was rescued from a British Columbia cliff after taking a wrong turn during a mountain trek.
Two Delta flights from New York faced bomb threats in one day; authorities searched the aircraft and reported no unusual findings.
SpaceX is launching its 35th cargo mission to the ISS on Oct. 13, carrying 6,300 pounds of supplies, science experiments, and the final set of solar arrays.
New Caltech simulations suggest the dying Sun’s uneven mass loss could destabilize the outer planets’ orbits within a billion years of it becoming a white dwarf, far sooner than expected.
In 1948, Idaho Fish and Game parachuted 76 beavers into the remote Chamberlain Basin using surplus WWII parachutes. All but one survived and immediately began building dams.
Scientists discovered Ctenosuchus tenuidens, a 170-million-year-old crocodile relative with needle-thin teeth that likely fed on soft prey like shrimp and tiny fish.
Researchers found duckweed, the world's smallest flowering plant, retains a complete genetic blueprint in miniature form and could serve as a nutritious, fast-growing food source for deep-space astronauts.
UChicago scientists discovered Megacauda sungei, a semi-aquatic Jurassic mammal ancestor with preserved throat structures showing it could chew and swallow like modern mammals.
Eleven crew members remain missing after drones struck two commercial ships near Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, prompting urgent search efforts.
An industrial chemical spill at a processing facility in Tunisia on October 13, 2026, caused severe respiratory distress in 18 factory workers.
An airstrike on a border gold mining facility in Sudan killed at least 72 local workers on October 13, 2026, leaving dozens more severely injured.
Javier Milei gave Britain two weeks to halt Sea Lion oilfield activity, threatening international arbitration and a tribunal case over the project.
Former Congolese president Joseph Kabila has launched a political-military coalition, taking a more direct role in the eastern Congo insurgency.
Extreme famine conditions and severe acute malnutrition led to a surge in child mortality across displaced camps in Sudan on October 13, 2026.
A passenger bus swerved off the Nairobi-Nakuru highway on October 13, 2026, rolling into a roadside ditch and killing six passengers while injuring twenty-two others.
Heavy downpours on October 13, 2026 triggered torrential landslides in a western highland village in Kenya, destroying fifteen homes and injuring four residents.
A sudden lightning strike hit an outdoor rural community gathering in Uganda on October 13, 2026, leaving three people dead and eight others injured.
Five workers died and several remain trapped after an illegal gold mine collapsed in eastern Uganda on October 13, 2026, prompting emergency rescues.
Four people died instantly on October 13, 2026, when two heavy trucks collided head-on along the main arterial highway outside Addis Ababa.
Raging flash floods on October 13, 2026, destroyed hundreds of acres of farmland and displaced over 1,200 families across Ethiopia's southern lowlands.
A husband and wife collecting plastic bottles along the highway died on October 13, 2026, following a hit-and-run collision involving an unidentified vehicle in Bangladesh.
Three commuters died instantly and ten others sustained serious injuries on October 13, 2026, after an overcrowded SUV crashed into a concrete divider on a highway near Lucknow, India.
At least four people died and more than forty suffered severe injuries on October 13, 2026, when the Rehman Baba Express derailed near Multan district in Pakistan.
A 14-year-old student used a hunting rifle to shoot and injure the headteacher and a staff member at a middle school in Aubagne, France. The suspect was detained, and authorities launched an inquiry.