Three professional mountain climbers were missing and presumed dead on Thursday after an avalanche in Banff National Park in the western province of Alberta.
Japan’s first commercial aircraft in half a century made its maiden flight on Wednesday, in a breakthrough for the country’s long-held ambition to establish an aircraft industry that can compete with some of the major players in global aviation.
One of the British divers who helped save the Thai cave schoolboys was rescued from a cave himself after he was trapped for 28 hours. Josh Bratchley, who is based on Anglesey, was exploring a flooded cave in Jackson County, in Tennessee, with a group of divers from the UK, when he failed to return to the surface on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands of bees that lived on the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris have survived the devastating fire that erupted earlier this week, French beekeepers confirmed.
Attackers stormed a hospital at the epicentre of Congo’s Ebola outbreak and killed “a dear colleague,” the head of the World Health Organization said Friday as he condemned the latest violence against health workers trying to contain the virus.
When fire engulfed the Sodder family home on Christmas Eve, with only four of the nine children inside managing to escape, the awful tragedy rocked their small community.
It looks like any other high school photo a group of teenagers smiling and making silly faces. But look a little closer, and with the benefit of hindsight, the picture becomes incredibly sinister.