Emmanuel Macron has declared last week’s “death grip” handshake with Donald Trump intentional. In an interview with French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche, the newly-elected French president described their encounter as ”a moment of truth.”
Two men were killed this week while intervening in an apparently anti-Muslim attack in Portland, Oregon: Former US Army sergeant Rick Best, 53, and recent college grad Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, 23. Yesterday, about 1,000 people attended a vigil in their honor at the site of the attack.
This is the face of desperation.
From images captured by NASA, Jupiter reveals itself as an exquisite blue marble, shimmering with swirling gold sand.
Update: This article was updated to include new footage of Donald Trump shaking hands with Emmanuel Macron.
US president Donald Trump gave Pope Francis a huge, gold-embossed box set of Martin Luther King’s books. In return, the pope gave him a few sheets of paper.
Donald Trump just wrapped up his first visit to the Middle East as US president. This week, he traveled to Saudi Arabia and Israel to meet with leaders of United States’ closest regional allies. And as he gave speeches, paid tributes, and attended ceremonies, photos of the trip managed to highlight the peculiarly tactile nature of international diplomacy.
It looks like a stream of golden lava, quietly running down the east face of the El Capitan walls in California’s Yosemite National Park.
Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who leaked over 750,000 military and diplomatic documents to Wikileaks in 2010, was released from prison yesterday (May 17). She’s clearly excited to share her experience rejoining world she helped change—through Instagram.
After almost a century and a half, the “Greatest Show on Earth” is coming to an end. Associated Press reporters tagged along with the Ringling Bros. Circus in its final days to witness the lives of circus performers, who live and travel across the United States by train, together with animals of the circus.
These photos of US president Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian officials last week (May 10) led to raised eyebrows because US media were barred from the event while a Russian photographer were not. Moreover, the photographer was from the state-owned news agency, Tass, which is known for its links to Russian intelligence, leading to worries that the foreign guests could have snuck spying devices into the Oval Office.
If you want to bribe a king, send him the biggest possible book. Ideally, make it a world atlas with giant maps showing all the countries he has conquered, as well as domains awaiting his dominion. And at the back, slip in a map of the Holy Land, where he can go once his reign is accomplished.
Over a million Muslims are expected to head to Mecca during Ramadan, which starts May 27, to perform the Hajj pilgrimage. Non-Muslims—who are barred from the Holy City—can now get a view of the pilgrimage on a virtual-reality app developed by an Egyptian startup.
Donald Trump had what he called a “very, very good” meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov at the White House yesterday (May 10). So good, that no US reporter was allowed in the room to witness it. Instead, all photos we have of the meeting were taken by official photographers of the Russian government.
Bambi is adorable. But what deer do in real life isn’t always so cute. While studying the marks that animals leave on human carcasses, forensic scientists found one unexpected guest chewing on a skeleton that was left to decay.
Drones have helped us get close up looks at some of the most dangerous places in the world, places otherwise inaccessible to humans. A photo of a drone flying terrifyingly close to a boiling stream of lava demonstrates just that—and it managed to fly away unscathed.
A wolf with lush, black fur and piercing yellow eyes is sitting on a stack of rocks in the woods, staring down a group of photographers less than 10 feet away. Whenever its head turns, camera shutters fire off like machine guns. The wolf’s handler asks the photographers how they plan to explain their luck at capturing these seemingly once-in-a-lifetime images. “The story is, you staked out for four weeks, out in the wilderness,” one of the photographers jokes.
A North Korean propaganda video released April 27 (link in Korean) leaves very little up to the imagination. Images of the White House, and of naval vessels pictured through crosshairs, are cut against wide shots of military parades in Pyongyang. With a soundtrack of a ticking clock, banging drums, and a chanting chorus, it’s part nationalist rallying cry, part action movie.
With nearby North Korea increasing its show of power day by day with missile launches and nuclear tests, people in Japan are preparing for the worst by building private nuclear shelters, Reuters reports.
World War II was a defining moment in the history of modern women: While men went off to battlefields, women took up responsibility in factories and offices. But that is not all: In the UK, women also joined the war as service members—including the Queen of England herself, who was war mechanic when she was still a princess.
Since it left Earth on April 24, 1990, the Hubble telescope has delivered again and again stunning snapshots of the vast universe around us, and kept us in awe of the marvels of space. To mark the 27th anniversary of the telescope’s launch, NASA has released this epic image of two galaxies captured in one frame.
Google wants you to use Google Maps to find the way to your destination. Google Earth, which shows satellite views of the globe, is for those with the itch to explore the world.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still looking for Andy Warhol’s missing soup cans, a year after seven of the iconic screen prints were stolen from the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri. In a playful turn of events, the bureau created a poster that embodies the true spirit of Warhol’s art.
A freight train filled with UK-made whiskey, vitamins, soft drinks, and other products set off for the first time yesterday, for China’s heralded “New Silk Road,” reports China’s state news agency Xinhua. In 18 days, it is expected to arrive at the city of Yiwu in eastern China.
