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Police officers in California's San Luis Obispo County rushed to help when they received a message that someone from the environmental organisation Conservation Ambassadors had called the emergency number 911. It turned out to be... a capuchin monkey.more

Rising heat and humidity as a result of climate change means that some 8 million Americans will be exposed to extreme heat of up to 52 degrees Celsius later this year, according to a study by the First Street Foundation (FSF).more

The president of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Albert Bourla, received a positive test for the presence of the coronavirus, which he announced on Twitter.more

The FBI seized top secret files in a search of former US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week, documents show. Agents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked "TS/SCI", a designation for material that could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to US national security.more

Salman Rushdie's agent has said "the news is not good" after the author was stabbed at an event in New York state. He was attacked on stage, and is now on a ventilator and unable to speak, Andrew Wylie said in a statement, adding that the author, 75, may lose one eye.more

Among the documents that FBI agents searched for during a search of Donald Trump's property were those related to nuclear weapons, the Washington Post reported, citing sources known to the investigation. The newspaper did not say whether the agents found the documents they were looking for.more

The International Ski Federation (FIS) has announced that the return of the World Cup ski jumping competition to the USA, scheduled for February 2023, will not take place, and the competitions that were to be held in Iron Mountain have been canceled.more

As a result of the activation of anti-vaccine movements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate of routine vaccination is declining in many countries, warns Professor Peter J. Hotez in Nature. According to him, vaccination in children and adults is at risk in the US and worldwide.more

A search resulted in FBI agents carrying boxes of documents out of former US President Donald Trump's Florida estate, CNN reported yesterday, citing its sources. According to the station, investigators were already interested in documents taken by Trump from the White House to Florida.more

People who have not taken two vaccines and booster doses against coronavirus will get into trouble, warns President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor Dr Anthony Fauci. This will be a problem especially in autumn and winter.more

Whoever commits offenses against China will inevitably be punished, warned Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. In this way, he commented on the ongoing visit of US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, against which Beijing is vehemently protesting.more

US President Joe Biden announced that the leader of Al-Qaeda, Ajman al-Zawahiri, one of the co-organizers of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was killed on Saturday night.more

Friday's US Mega Millions lottery draw saw the jackpot fall when $1.28 billion was in the pot. The winning ticket was purchased in Illinois.more

On Thursday, July 28, Ashley Ness gave birth to quadruplets at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. This alone is quite unique, but even more unique is the fact that the four toddlers were two pairs of identical twins - two girls and two boys. This is the case every 10 million pregnancies.more

The Republican and Democrat group starts a new party in the US called Forward. The party is expected to attract a centrist, moderate electorate disappointed by the deep divisions on the American political scene, reports CNN.more

Owned by US billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, yesterday reported its first-ever drop in revenue volume due to reduced advertising spending during the economic downturn, the AP reported.more

Six US F-22 Raptor fighter jets have been deployed to Poland as part of a NATO 'air cover' mission, the US Air Force Europe and Africa Command announced yesterday. The aircraft will be stationed at an air base in Łask.more

The remains of a powerful Chinese rocket that delivered a new module to the space station will fall to Earth early next week, the US Space Command (SPACECOM) reported, quoted by CNN.more

As much as $ 1.02 billion will be the jackpot of the jackpot in the next Mega Millions lottery draw in the US, the Associated Press reported. This is the effect of several months of accumulation.more

Yuri Borisov, the new head of Russia's state space agency Roskosmos, has announced that his country will leave the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 and build its own orbital station, writes the Associated Press.more

Billionaire Elon Musk's friendship with Google co-founder Sergey Brin has ended due to Musk's alleged affair with Brin's wife. The Google co-founder is in the midst of a divorce and has decided to pull out of his investment in Musk's companies, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday behind anonymous sources.more

While the war is still raging in Ukraine, Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, has taken up "swinging the nuclear saber", reports Richard K. Betts, professor at the Institute for War and Peace Studies, in Foreign Affairs. Arnold A. Saltzman at Columbia University in New York.more

Google has fired one of its engineers who said the company's artificial intelligence system has feelings.more

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday morning and is experiencing "very mild symptoms" of the disease, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre reported. She added that Biden has started treatment with the drug Paxlovid.more

The American chain Starbucks intends to close "many cafés" in the domestic market, announced CEO Howard Schultz in a video shared on Twitter. He justified his decision on security grounds, including nuisance from the homeless and drug addicts.more