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Tens of thousands of pets — if not hundreds of thousands — were left in places like New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina because disaster response agencies told people to leave pets behind. Chris Hondros/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chris Hondros/Getty Images Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see “every star in the sky.” It was early September 2005, a little more than a week after Hurricane Katrina had torn across the Gulf Coast — and Hemeter, who’d snuck past a…

Hearing petitions against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision drive in Bihar, the Supreme Court last week expressed surprise that “the 1,60,813 Booth Level Agents (of various political parties, registered with it) have so far filed only two objections”. It also noted that some parties had submitted that their Booth Level Agents (BLAs) were “not being permitted to submit objections”.In fact, despite all the talk around the Rahul Gandhi-Tejashwi Yadav-led Vote Adhikar Yatra against the SIR, a total of 10 “objections” plus “claims” have been filed by party BLAs officially with the EC since the draft electoral rolls were published…

After a hiatus of more than a year — during which she insisted she had not retired — Venus Williams returned to the highest level of tennis, with a first-round match at the U.S. Open on Monday.

When President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ivan Chenin left his comfortable life as a student in Moscow to deliver aid as a volunteer to the separatist Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics of eastern Ukraine, which Russia now claims as its “new territories”.After returning from a trip to the occupied areas of Ukraine last year, Chenin jumped further into the fray, enlisting in the Thunder Cascade volunteer unit.“I served as an operator of a reconnaissance UAV [drone],” Chenin told Al Jazeera.“My duties included surveillance and reconnaissance of enemy territory. If a target was detected, I…

Farah Khan and her beloved cook Dilip have once again taken over the internet, and fans can’t get enough. Known for their quirky banter and effortless chemistry, anything featuring the duo is bound to go viral. This time, it’s Farah’s latest Instagram reel that has the internet in splits. In the video, Dilip is seen dancing to “Badli Si”, the newly released track from The Ba***ds of Bollywood, which marks the directoral debut of Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. The song has already caught attention, but it’s Dilip’s moves, and the comments they sparked, that have become the real…

Rescue crews said they evacuated more than 14,000 people from Kasur and 89,000 from Bahawalnagar.Pakistani officials have started evacuating tens of thousands of people after neighbouring India released water from overflowing dams and swollen rivers into low-lying border regions.The move on Tuesday came a day after New Delhi alerted Islamabad about possible cross-border flooding, the first public diplomatic contact between the two countries since a four-day war in May.The latest flood alert and evacuation drive by Pakistan comes as heavy monsoon rains continue to batter both South Asian countries, with at least 800 people reported killed in Pakistan since late…

President Trump visits the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on August 21 in Washington, D.C. The Trump administration has deployed federal officers and the National Guard to the District in order to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under federal control and assist in crime prevention in the nation’s capital. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Veteran defense lawyers and law enforcement experts have been warning about the potential for overreach since the federal government muscled its way into policing decisions in the nation’s capital nearly three weeks ago. Inside the federal courthouse in Washington,…

While swimwear and sandals are perhaps my favorite attire (I’m from Florida, after all), I’m also looking forward to crisp fall weather in my adopted home of Paris—and the cozy knits that come along with it. Americans close out the season with Labor Day weekend festivities, but in France, the end of summer holidays is marked by what the French call la rentrée, or “the return.” There’s the same excitement in the air as the first day of school, but instead of class, we’re meeting over wine-fueled soirées and showing off our tans from sailing trips and days basking on…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP hide caption toggle caption Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP MELBOURNE, Australia — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused Iran of organizing two antisemitic attacks in Australia and said the country was cutting off diplomatic relations with Tehran in response on Tuesday. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization concluded the Iranian government had directed arson attacks on the Lewis Continental Kitchen, a kosher food company, in Sydney in October last year and on the…

Trump adviser Kari Lake holds up a photograph, which she says shows an empty Voice of America (VOA) newsroom, as she speaks during a U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on June 25, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America A senior federal judge ordered Trump administration official Kari Lake to submit to questioning under oath in ongoing litigation over her efforts to effectively dismantle Voice of America despite Congressional mandates that it be maintained. U.S District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Lake was “verging on contempt of court” for…