This year's El Nino is on track to be the strongest on record, threatening to unleash extreme weather across the globe and make 2027 the hottest recorded year by far.
Rapper Kanye West's announcement of two stadium concerts in Russia later this year has sent the local media and political scene into a frenzy, with President Vladimir Putin's spokesman even asked on Thursday if a planned meeting was on the cards.
Australian wildlife workers have launched an unprecedented effort to vaccinate wild populations of little penguins against the highly contagious H5N1 avian influenza.
A complicated mission to save a NASA satellite from burning up in the atmosphere has failed, the US space agency said, as the rescue spacecraft could not be controlled.
Six years after stepping down as working royals, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving back to the United Kingdom within weeks, British press reported.