After Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump declared Indiana governor Mike Pence his running mate last week, the pair are now gearing up for this week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. On Sunday, July 17, Trump and Pence did their first-ever joint interview, in a much-lampooned appearance on 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl.
A military coup is currently unfolding in Turkey, which began when the military took control of Istanbul and locked down main bridges in the city.
France has suffered its third large-scale terror attack in 18 months, after a man drove a truck through a large crowd in the southern French city of Nice, killing more than 80 people.
A truck crashed into a crowd gathered to watch Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France, on the evening of Thursday, July 14, causing a gruesome scene of carnage and crumpled bodies.
Today, July 13, is David Cameron’s last day on the job, when he must vacate his official residence at London’s 10 Downing Street, and personally tender his resignation to the Queen, clearing the way for successor Theresa May.
Over 1,200 rolls of film negatives by an unknown photographer from the 1950s, and just one roll has been developed. Could this be the next Vivian Maier, the American street photographer whose genius was only recognized after her death?
It’s Amazon Prime Day, for shoppers living in the US and a handful of other countries. On this day, users who subscribe to Amazon Prime membership are promised 100,000 special bargains by the e-commerce platform, launching the kind of purchasing frenzy that saw more than 34.4 million items sold last year.
Last week, YouTube user Francis Darracott uploaded an unusual video to his account: It showed the strange and solitary underwater adventure of a lost GoPro camera, found by Darracott’s sister while fishing on a lake near the UK town of Hamworthy.
A cluster of simple grapes sold at auction for 1.1 million yen (about $11,000) in Japan today, July 7.
Cities and villages in central and southern China have been flooded since June 19. Torrential downpours have inundated 11 provinces, killing nearly 130 people in the past week, with 1.9 million hectares (about 4.7 million acres) of crops damaged. Forty-two people are missing, according to Reuters, which quoted from Chinese state media.
Founded by a Muslim woman, the University of Al Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, opened its doors in 859. Its library has been restored during the last three years by another woman, Canadian-Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni. A wing will be open to the general public later this year.
This photograph of a team of horses charging through the snow and morning mist, with a mysterious horseman raising his whip behind them, has earned Hong Kong amateur photographer Anthony Lau the title of National Geographic’s travel photographer of the year.
United States president Barack Obama, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto met up yesterday, June 29, in Ottawa, Canada. The occasion was the North American Leaders’ Summit, affectionately known as the “Three Amigos Summit,” but it was the starry-eyed rapport between Trudeau and Obama that stole the show.
The United States Marine Corps is making 19 job titles gender neutral. An official announcement about the change is expected to be made in the next few days.
At night, capturing the elusive beauty of wild animals can require hours of hiding, with precisely adjusted camera settings and a bottomless trove of batteries. But with the help of a remote-controlled robot, one photographer has found a way to take extraordinarily intimate midnight images of lions, hyenas, and zebra in Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Parades in honor of LGBT pride took place in both New York City and Istanbul this weekend, but participants were received in starkly different ways by local authorities.
The Dalai Lama just met with Lady Gaga and a few US mayors at a random event this weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana. She posted several photos on Instagram where she appeared with the Tibetan religious leader in exile on a panel about kindness and compassion. Some users from China are not happy about it.
Hong Kong wasn’t always a concrete jungle packed with 80-story skyscrapers. During the 1950s and ’60s, Fan Ho, one of Asia’s most acclaimed masters of photography, captured a different kind of life in the city through his Rolleiflex lenses. Ho passed away last Sunday (June 19) at 84 years old in San Jose, California.
The Brexit vote has led Britain’s prime minister, David Cameron to call it quits, politicians to call for the reunification of Ireland and independence for Scotland—and even Londoners to petition their new mayor for a vote on independence from the rest of England.
John Bradley, the Navy pharmacist’s mate second class who inspired his son to co-author the best-selling book Flags of Our Fathers, was on Iwo Jima that day but was not one of the six men in the 1945 photo taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal. The man previously identified in the photo as Bradley turns out to have been a private first class from Detroit, named Harold Schultz.
A rescue flight brought back two seriously ill workers from the American Amundsen-Scott South Pole station on Wednesday night (1:40GMT), the AFP reports. The mission battled extreme weather conditions in the midst of the southern hemisphere’s winter: The station recorded yesterday’s temperature ranged from -62 degrees Celsius (-79 degrees Fahrenheit) to -83 degrees (-117 degrees Fahrenheit) including the windchill factor.
Progressive, happy Sweden has long been a haven for refugees, accepting Jews, Eastern Europeans and Bosnians from Europe’s 20th century conflicts and hundreds of thousands more people from the current migrant crisis. Last year, while other EU states debated sending Syrians back to Turkey, Sweden single-handedly took in over 160,000 people. But not all Swedes are happy with their reputation as a humanitarian superpower.
As wildfires rage in southern California, one real-life road runner has decided to give up on rescuers and save itself.
Instead of exchanging man-hugs or spraying champagne all over each other, the Argentine footballers who just qualified for Copa America’s semi-finals celebrated in true millennial style.
