BAGLEY, Iowa—Blood may be thicker than water, but it'll still flood your basement.
Nick Lestina found this out the hard way two weeks ago when he discovered five inches (13 centimetres) of blood, fat and other animal tissue flooding his family's basement in Bagley, which is about 45 miles (72 kilometres) northwest of Des Moines.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's attorney general said 165 sets of fetal remains have been found in the Chicago area inside a car owned by a late Indiana abortion doctor today, boosting the total number of abandoned sets of fetal remains discovered at properties linked to him to more 2,400.
CHAMPS-SUR-MARNE, France — The golden angel once glimmered majestically from Notre Dame's vault.
Now, with a broken nose, chipped gold-leaf and a smashed bust, it stares up blankly at a warehouse roof in the outskirts of Paris where blackened fragments of the famed cathedral's stained glass mingle with organ pipes and jagged vault stones.
WAILUKU, Hawaii—A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world's heaviest avocado.
The Pokini family from the island of Maui received the Guinness certificate this week for the avocado weighing 5.6 pounds (2.54 kilograms), The Maui News reported yesterday.
The average avocado weighs about 6 ounces (170 grams), according to Guinness officials.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin lamented Friday the inability of his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to ensure a pullback of heavy weaponry in eastern Ukraine as the first step toward peace settlement.
SOUFLI, Greece — At Kostas Mouhtaridis’ silk factory in Soufli, the non-stop “clunk-click” of the weaving machinery is a loud but welcome sound.
The factory is a few hundred meters from the Evros River, which forms Greece’s natural border with Turkey. It is one of Europe’s most heavily militarized areas, patrolled constantly to deter illegal immigration into the European Union.
GROSSE TETE, La.—A veterinarian has prescribed antibiotics to a camel owned by a Louisiana truck stop petting zoo after a woman bit the 600-pound (272-kilogram) animal to free herself from under its weight.
BISMARCK, N.D.—An 18-year-old North Dakota woman who authorities say jumped a zoo guard rail to take a selfie in front of a primate cage has pleaded guilty to trespassing.
Ashlee Brown was fined $300 after yesterday's guilty plea and will be on unsupervised probation for nearly a year.
She can keep the incident off her record if she stays out of trouble during that time.
The planet is getting hotter, and tackling that climate peril will grab the spotlight as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the United Nations this week facing an undeniable backdrop: rising tensions from the Persian Gulf to Afghanistan and increasing nationalism, inequality and intolerance.
THE AFSLUITDIJK, Netherlands—The Dutch, whose low-lying country is crisscrossed by rivers and bordered by the sea, have been battling with water for centuries. That challenge will only grow as warmer temperatures cause sea levels to rise.
