Owerri (Nigeria) (AFP) – The Governor of Nigeria's Imo State visits the prison in Owerri where 1,800 inmates escaped after a heavily armed gang attacked the facility using explosives. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison, engaging guards in a gun battle and breaking out inmates, the national corrections authority said in a statement.
As program manager for Grevy's Zebra Trust in Kenya, Sheila Funnell lives and works among the most endangered zebras to ensure they have a future.
A huge Asian water monitor lizard visited a 7-11 in Thailand. A bystander caught shoppers' nervous laughs and screams as the lizard climbed a shelf.
A medical expert says George Floyd died from a lack of oxygen, which damaged his brain and caused his heart to stop. Dr. Martin Tobin is a lung and critical care specialist from Chicago. (April 8)
Leatherback sea turtles have been plying the world's oceans for tens of millions of years, but scientists say a rapid decline in their numbers means they could disappear from U.S. West Coast waters within decades. (April 8)
Just next to Nepal's Mayadevi temple, known as where Buddha was born more than 2,600 years ago, hundreds of people wait outside a makeshift hospital hoping their fading eyesight will be restored by eye surgeon Dr. Sanduk Ruit. (April 8)
An apartment fire in Queens, New York has injured 21 people, including 16 firefighters, and displaced hundreds of residents. About 400 firefighters responded to the the blaze that started Tuesday afternoon, WABC-TV reported. (April 7)
At least five people are dead after what authorities are calling a "case of a mass shooting" at a home in York County, South Carolina. CNN's Amara Walker tells us the latest.
On the south side of Clemson University's campus cemetery, dozens of white flags with pink ribbons mark the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school and the plantation on which it sits.
A former Mrs. Sri Lanka forcefully removed the crown from the newly appointed beauty pageant queen after falsely claiming she was ineligible to take part.
The rising Chinese market is too promising for European companies to walk away from, said Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, regarding the recent worrying situation in the bilateral trade ties. Trade between China and the European Union (EU) has been advancing in recent years, with China becoming the largest trading partner of the latter.
Zimbabwe officials have set up additional vaccination centers in community areas across the capital city of Harare as a way of decongesting the main centers that had been overwhelmed as the nation entered the second phase of its inoculation drive.
