An Australian man who was feared dead after being captured by Russian forces is alive, foreign minister Penny Wong has announced. Oscar Jenkins, 32a teacher who signed up to fight for Ukraine against Russia, was taken captive in December last year. A video showed him being struck by a Russian interrogator, sparking fears for his […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops in Russia’s Kursk border region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. He made the comments days after Ukraine began pressing new attacks in Kursk to retain ground captured in a lightning incursion in August that resulted in the […]
The family of an Israeli hostage who was filmed in a new proof-of-life video by Hamas is “unrecognisable” despite the terror group’s apparent efforts to improve her appearance, according to her family. Liri Elbag was one of six soldiers to be kidnapped from the Nahal Oz base, near the border with Gaza. She is one […]
A striking photo captures the moment a venomous green pit viper devours a brown tree frog in a rainforest in Taiwan, as the frog forlornly takes a final gulp of air. The gruesome shot has been shortlisted in the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. Green pit vipers (Trimeresurus) have bright green scales and […]
A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her day.
Israel wasted no time after Bashar al-Assad’s fall to bomb all the Syrian military assets it wanted to keep out of the rebels’ hands – striking nearly 500 targets, destroying the navy, and taking out, it claims, 90% of Syria’s known surface-to-air missiles. But it is Israel’s capture of Syria’s highest peak, the Mount Hermon […]
Footage of a United States U-2 spy plane that captured imagery of the Chinese surveillance balloon that flew over the continental United States which was later shot down over the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Space.com | photos courtesy: US Department of Defense / Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Shifting […]
Russian state media reported that a British volunteer for the Ukrainian Army was captured amid fighting in the Kursk region.
NASA has released the clearest images ever compiled of Earth’s magnetosphere radiation belt. But the spacecraft that accomplished the feat wasn’t only designed to detail the vital atmospheric region shielding the planet from harmful cosmic rays—it’s in the early stages of a multi-year journey to Jupiter. Launched on April 14, 2023, the European Space Agency’s […]
