An ancient artifact could be right in your own backyard. This was the case for a mom who was gardening with her baby in the town of Józefów in Poland. While gardening in May, they came across a strange object. Curious of the find, they brought it to the Mazowiecki Wojewódzki Konserwator Zabytków (Masovian Voivodeship...
Activist Greta Thunberg was among six people arrested at Copenhagen University as they protested the institution’s connections to Israel on Wednesday. Thunberg appeared alongside members of the Students Against the Occupation group, an anti-Israel activist group. Thunberg has become internationally famous for her climate activism, but she has participated in a number of anti-Israel protests...
The U.S. Army confirmed Wednesday it is investigating the death of a U.S. soldier who died while stationed in Poland. Lt. Col. Joshua Camara, 45, was based at Camp Kościuszko, home of V Corps’ forward headquarters in the city of Poznan. He died on Tuesday, Sept. 3. A V Corps spokesperson said Camara was a...
Passengers who paid upward of $99,000 for a three-year cruise have been stranded in Northern Ireland for three months, living out of hotels as they wait for their ship to be repaired. The Villa Vie Residences Odyssey made its way to the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast of its own accord, but once it...
A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 people lost their lives. The public inquiry into the 2017 blaze found no “single cause” of the tragedy, but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak...
A day after 12 migrants died when their small inflatable ripped apart on a failed effort to cross the English Channel, several dozen others made another crossing attempt on a crowded vessel from northern France on Wednesday, as French patrol boats watched it labor through the seas. That migrants were prepared to risk their lives...
A New York City lawyer and his wife, who were among the seven who died in the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht last month off the coast of Sicily, passed away as a result of drowning, autopsies have revealed. The causes of death for Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda were confirmed by coroners in...
Germany’s right wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is expected to win its first election since the party was formed in 2013, as anti-mass immigration sentiment sends voters to the polls. Exit polls on Sunday showed AfD securing a winning 33.5% share of the vote in Thuringia and 31.5% in Saxony. Meanwhile, the center-left Social...
Czech explosive experts detonated a World War II bomb on Friday at a major chemical plant in northwestern Czech Republic where it was found last week, authorities said. Besides a few broken windows, the controlled explosion didn’t immediately seem to cause serious damage, police said in a statement. The plant near the city of Litvinov...
An American archaeologist has died after embarking on an expedition aboard a replica Viking boat that capsized off the coast of Norway on Tuesday, according to reports. Six people were aboard the Naddoddur, a replica Viking ship piloted by the Sail2North expedition group, when the boat capsized near the town of Stad during the sailors’...
