DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday, hospital and local authorities said, as health workers were wrapping up the second phase of an urgent polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak in the territory. The vaccination drive was launched … Read more
Seemingly every tourist in Rome knows the key to returning to the Eternal City is to toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish. The result: Hoards of visitors packing the Baroque monument any given day, taking selfies and betting on a return trip. Officials are now considering a plan to manage … Read more
VENICE, Italy — The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival is coming to close Saturday, with the world premiere of Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2” and the awards ceremony. With no real consensus pick going into the evening, eyes are focused on what the Isabelle Huppert-led jury will bestow prizes … Read more
A bomb threat that forced a flight operated by India’s Vistara Airlines to make an emergency landing in Erzurum in eastern Turkey was a false threat, the local governor says. Turkish officials had said a piece of paper with “bomb on board” written on it was found in a toilet on the aircraft, prompting bomb … Read more
Alex Nelke and Ola Forsmark never forgot that evening together in Thailand. Eyes meeting across the dancefloor. Drinking on the beach, side-by-side. Attempting to climb a mountain in the middle of the night. Swimming in the dark. Laughing together as they ran across the sandy beaches. “I remember thinking he’s a really special person, from … Read more
A pet owner has had the shock of a lifetime when her beloved cat padded through the cat flap four days after it was thought to have been cremated. Nicci Knight, of North Yorkshire, was on holiday with her family in Turkey when neighbours broke the news they had found her cat, Ted, drowned in … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Scooting on his electric skateboard through a southern Mexico City neighborhood, Arturo Hernández spots a likely target for his next action and uploads a photo to social media calling his followers to help. A couple of days later, he and several of them are swinging sledgehammers at a thick layer of concrete … Read more
A Florida surgeon mistakenly removed a man’s liver instead of his spleen, causing him to die on the operating table, a lawyer for the man’s widow alleges. William Bryan, 70, of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, underwent surgery on August 21, at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast hospital in Miramar, Florida, because of spleen abnormalities, according to … Read more
Sergio Mendes, the celebrated Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit Mas Que Nada made him a global superstar and helped launched a long, Grammy-winning career, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID. He was 83. The death on Thursday of the Brazilian pianist, songwriter and arranger was confirmed in a statement by his … Read more
A US couple is suing an Atlanta hospital — in the country’s southeast state of Georgia — for allegedly losing part of a patient’s skull after it was removed during brain surgery because “several bone flaps” were lacking identification. Fernando and Maria Cluster are accusing staff at Emory University Hospital Midtown of negligence that led … Read more
