Peter Higgs, who claimed the existence of a new particle that came to be named after him (as well as God), has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh (UoE) announced.

The Vatican has effectively called the growing trend of sex-change surgery and surrogacy another threat to humanity.

A Brazilian Supreme Court Justice has launched a probe into Elon Musk’s company, X, for spreading fake news and initiated a separate investigation targeting Musk for potential obstruction.

All people on board a burning ferry were miraculously safe Friday, including many passengers who jumped into the sea to escape the large fire that engulfed the vessel in the Gulf of Thailand, officials said.

Pope Francis’s appealed to pray for peace and urged leaders to negotiate on the future of Ukraine as the war-torn nation was reeling Sunday from massive Russian strikes that, besides soldiers, also killed more than a dozen civilians over the weekend. Russia, in turn, accused Ukraine of hitting Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The reported attacks came amid calls by Kyiv for better air defenses and calls for a world summit on peace.

Some 100,000 Hungarians, many waving flags, marched through Budapest on Saturday in the largest demonstration in years against the country’s perceived authoritarian leadership.

The nationalist left government’s pro-Russia candidate, Peter Pellegrini, has won Slovakia’s presidential election with about 53 percent of the vote, in an outcome due to worry the West.

Voters in Slovakia were returning to the polls Saturday for the second round of their small country’s presidential election, in which they choose whether to move towards the European Union or Russia.

The United States pledged Thursday that Ukraine will eventually join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance despite Moscow’s opposition and massive overnight Russian attacks.

The Salafi jiahdist Islamic State terror group last week called on its supporters to carry out “lone wolf” attacks on Christians and Jews in Europe, Israel, and the United States, i24News reports.

With thousands dying on the battlefields, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed legislation lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 to shore up the army’s dwindling forces over two years into the war with Russia.

Amid worldwide debate about the effect of Artificial Intelligence technology on the global workforce, Thailand, this week, introduced its first AI reporters on one of its leading television news channels, the Washington Times reports.

At least nine people were killed, 900 injured, and dozens of buildings damaged in Taiwan’s most powerful earthquake in 25 years, authorities said Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faced his most significant political challenge in recent memory Tuesday as official results confirmed that his party suffered its worst defeat in more than two decades in this weekend’s local elections.

Furious protestors were seen burning American and Israeli flags in Iran on Tuesday, just hours after Tehran vowed revenge for a reported Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Syria that killed at least a dozen people.

A U.S. official stated that the United States informed Iran it “had no involvement” and lacked prior knowledge of an Israeli attack on a diplomatic facility in Syria, which resulted in the death of a high-ranking Iranian general, Axios reported on Tuesday.

A child has died and two others have been seriously wounded in a shooting at a school in Finland carried out by a minor, police said.

Czech and Polish intelligence services say they have uncovered a Russian network to influence the outcome of the European elections in June, including paying politicians for pro-Kremlin views.

Hungary’s longtime nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has been criticized over his perceived authoritarian style, faces arguably one of the most significant upheavals in his 14-year rule: thousands of Hungarians have demanded his resignation after a prominent critic released a recording allegedly implicating a loyal ally and top minister in a high-profile corruption case.

Ukraine says it has come under massive Russian air strikes on Easter Sunday despite Pope Francis’s appeals for peace and a prisoner swap between Kyiv and Moscow. Russia confirmed Sunday that it conducted a massive strike on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and natural gas industry, though Kyiv also managed to attack sites in Russia.