Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanos, has been in a near constant state of eruption for months. On Tuesday, August 12, the mountain put on a beautiful show at dusk and into the evening, seen in this footage from Nicolosi, south of the volcano. Credit: YouTube/KdEtna
Opening statements are set to begin today in the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president following a dramatic week of jury selection.
GM kept the earnings momentum going with strong first quarter results, resulting in the automaker upping its full-year guidance. GM also still sees "positive variable profit" in its EV business in the back half of 2024 as well.
PepsiCo reported better-than-expected revenue in the first quarter on strong international demand for its snacks and beverages. Sales were hurt by a recall early in the quarter of Quaker Oats cereal, bars and snacks because of potential contamination with salmonella. Quaker Foods sales dropped 24% during the quarter.
Karen, an ostrich at the Topeka Zoo, has died after grabbing and swallowing a staff member's keys, the zoo announced Friday.
Hezbollah announced two of its members had been killed by Israeli fire Tuesday, with the Israeli army saying it eliminated "two significant" members of the Iran-backed group in south Lebanon.The Israeli army said it had killed "two significant terrorists in Hezbollah's aerial unit" on Tuesday morning and overnight.
UK leader Rishi Sunak travels to Warsaw on Tuesday for talks with Polish premier Donald Tusk and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that will focus on Ukraine and wider European security.Stoltenberg said last week that he expected more NATO countries to make announcements on fresh air defences for Kyiv "soon".
Spotify reported first quarter earnings before the bell on Tuesday. Here's what to know.
An aide to a German far-right member of the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, German prosecutors said Tuesday, deepening concerns about foreign interference ahead of June's EU elections.Lawmakers in the EU parliament's leftwing Greens group on Tuesday called on the European Parliament to speed up a probe into links between MEPs and foreign powers.
Israel bombarded northern Gaza overnight in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, causing panic amongst residents and flattening neighbourhoods in an area from which the Israeli army had previously down its troops, residents said on Tuesday. Army tanks made a new incursion east of Beit Hanoun on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, though they did not penetrate far into the city, residents and Hamas media said.
Donald Trump is set to secure on Tuesday a stock bonus worth $1.3 billion from the company that operates his social media app Truth Social, equivalent to about half the majority stake he already owns in it, thanks to the wild rally in its shares. The award will take the former U.S. President's overall stake in the company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), to $4.1 billion. While Trump has agreed not to sell any of his TMTG shares before September, the windfall represents a significant boost to his wealth, which Forbes pegs at $4.7 billion.
Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying and some tilting, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago.The April 3 tremor was the most serious in Taiwan since 1999, when a magnitude-7.6 quake hit the island.
Marshall James Kavanaugh takes a battered old typewriter to a park and lets people give him a prompt for a poem. They walk away with a piece of art.
The idea of a doctor in the United States having to consider the risk of imprisonment before performing an emergency abortion might have been difficult to imagine just two years ago. But after the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide, such dilemmas are a reality in several states that have since adopted Republican-backed near-total bans that include the threat of criminal penalties and loss of medical licensure. The court on Wednesday is set to hear arguments in a case pitting Idaho's strict abortion ban against a federal law that ensures that patients can receive emergency care.
Nvidia will report earnings in late May, an event that is likely more crucial to the overall market than the coming week's crush of results and economic data.
The Senate will take up the House-passed $95 billion foreign aid package this week, as the legislation nears its final congressional action after both sides of Capitol Hill have struggled for months to send aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing'' ahead of the Summer Olympics. "I was already scared but I am even more scared because I don’t know where to go,” said Boubacar Traore, 16, who said he fled conflict in Burkina Faso and arrived in France two months ago. The operation came days after police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squatter camp in a suburb south of Paris.
Azerbaijan asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday to move forward with a case accusing Armenia of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing, one of two competing cases launched by the foes over their decades of ethnic conflict. Armenia and Azerbaijan have each sought rulings at the ICJ, also known as the World Court, against the other over the fallout of conflicts dating to the breakup of the Soviet Union, mainly over Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of Azerbaijan once home to many Armenians.
Taiwan's incoming president Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that a multi-billion US military aid package will "strengthen deterrence against authoritarianism", as China ramps up political and military pressure on the self-ruled island.It has ramped up military and political pressures against Taiwan in recent years, sending in warplanes and naval vessels near-daily around the island.
A mass grave with more than 300 bodies has been uncovered at a hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, Gaza Civil Defense workers said, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area earlier this month.
Turkey is rich with ancient wonders, and many of these are hidden below the surface, often only being discovered after centuries of being buried and forgotten.
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