Australia's indigenous people have a 50,000-year-old solution to bushfires

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A teenager is believed to have died from an asthma attack triggered by the raging Australia bushfires — and now her heartbroken family is calling for better air-quality monitoring, according to reports. Courtney Partridge-McLennan, 19, suffered a...

Liam Hemsworth's rumored romance with Gabriella Brooks is heating up fast! The actor and the 21-year-old model were spotted kissing on the beach in Australia on Jan. 12. They were all smiles in their swimsuits, and even took their PDA into the ocean!

More than 1 billion birds, reptiles and mammals may have been killed by the fires sweeping across Australia, according to a new estimate from the University of Sydney. Chris Dickman, a University of Sydney professor from the science faculty, had to...

A 7-year-old Oregon girl died over the weekend at Cannon Beach and her 4-year-old brother is still missing after they were swept out to sea with their father.

Australia's beleaguered prime minister, Scott Morrison, has admitted there were things he "could have handled much better" in the bushfire crisis and will propose a royal commission into the disaster.

A 6-year-old boy who has been battling cancer got a surprise standing ovation from his classmates when he returned to school after finishing his last round of chemotherapy.

A South Carolina high school teacher was arrested after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student, authorities said Monday. Anna Elizabeth Jeanette Patton, 22, lured the teenager by sending several steamy messages and nude photos via text and...

A high school basketball coach in California was arrested on suspicion of groping a 14-year-old female student, authorities said. Elijah Kim, 30, a junior varsity boys basketball coach at Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, was busted about 3:45 p...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have gone on vacation this summer. 2024 could be, according to some data, the worst year ever for overtourism. How should we think about vacation in a way that doesn't cause harm to others?

At least nine people have died as severe weather and tornadoes have ravaged parts of the Midwest and South and rounds of crippling snow and ice have blanketed areas from Kansas to Michigan.

The bomb left in a van by the couple who slaughtered a cop and three people during an anti-Semitic rampage in Jersey City was powerful enough to have killed or maimed victims as far as five football fields away, federal officials said Monday. David...

Like father, like son. Tiger Woods is caddying for his son Charlie this weekend at a junior event, and footage surfaced online of Woods’ 10-year-old kid swinging a golf club like a seasoned pro. Charlie displays a picture-perfect swing in the video...

Firefighters battling raging brushfires in Australia say they may have finally turned the tables on the blaze thanks to cooler weather and milder winds. “This fire took a major run about seven or eight days ago, and with the weather changing now,...

Over the past few decades, vacant and underutilized churches have become a familiar sight in American cities.

Nearly 950 earthquakes and aftershocks have hit Puerto Rico since Dec. 31, leaving 2,000 people in shelters, nearly a million without power until Monday and hundreds of thousands without water. The damage runs at least $110 million, yet relief...

At least six people have died and 16 others have been injured after a massive sinkhole swallowed up a bus picking up passengers in northwestern China, the latest in a recent string of deadly road collapses in the country.

Apps from Chinese developers have been gaining popularity on Indian app stores for some time. Last year, as many as 44 of the top 100 Android apps in India were developed by Chinese firms. But things have changed this year as local developers put on...

Apps from Chinese developers have been gaining popularity on Indian app stores for some time. Last year, as many as 44 of the top 100 Android apps in India were developed by Chinese firms. But things have changed this year as local developers put on...