Iran’s largest lake has largely dried out and people are resorting to praying for rain in some areas

Coordinated terrorist attacks turned Paris into a theater of blood and calamity 10 years ago Thursday, with gunfire on café terraces, explosions by a stadium and a nighttime massacre at the Bataclan concert hall leaving 132 people dead and hundreds injured. The night reshaped France’s sense of safety and purpose, hardening security while deepening a civic reflex for solidarity that endures a decade on. Paris is marking the Thursday anniversary with a sequence of tributes led by President Emman

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and careful recordings of birdsong to reveal that one of those birds was actually new to science. It was a hidden species that no one had