OSLO, Norway (AP) – Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway has undergone a successful lung transplant at a hospital in Oslo, the country’s royal house said Wednesday.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Visitors to the Acropolis can now see the Parthenon’s western side looking whole for the first time in about 220 years.
NEW YORK (AP) – Infant mortality in the U.S. dropped to a new all-time low in 2025, according to preliminary government data. There were slightly fewer than 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2025, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – A zoo in Taiwan’s capital received a pair of endangered red pandas from China on Saturday, in the first exchange of animals in more than a decade as tensions between the two sides run high.
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) – A zoo in Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana has presented its newest residents: three Siberian tiger cubs who were born there under two weeks ago.
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – A museum in Georgia’s oldest city on Wednesday welcomed a truckload of treasures from the earliest period of U.S. history – 17 cannons that experts believe sank to the bottom of the Savannah River during the American Revolution and remained undiscovered for nearly 240 years.
TORONTO (AP) – Canada’s government endorsed a plan Wednesday to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park in Ontario to aquariums in the United States and Spain – a plan that could save them from mass euthanasia if the deal goes through.
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) – On a drizzly Saturday morning late last month, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound mixers and balky zippers.
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