Millions of moths mass on Madrid

Millions of moths have engulfed Madrid in a population explosion blamed on spring rains, a sudden blast of summer heat and winds that have wafted them in as unwelcome guests to the Spanish capital.

Millions of moths have engulfed Madrid in a population explosion blamed on spring rains, a sudden blast of summer heat and winds that have wafted them in as unwelcome guests to the Spanish capital.

Incoming high school senior Ratziel is enrolling this week at Urdaneta City National High School in Pangasinan, and he will have to write down his full name. It consists of 40 first names—plus a surname.

A Hungarian man who sawed off one of his arms by accident below the elbow managed to drive 15 kilometers (10 miles) to hospital in Austria clutching the severed limb, police said Sunday.

A group of policewomen took an unusual approach to crowd control at a May Day protest in Indonesia Wednesday, breaking into a performance of “Gangnam Style” to keep demonstrators happy.

Even ambassadors, it turns out, are turf-conscious when it comes to waiting in the supermarket checkout line.
How do you say “best wishes” to a departing traveler? After an uproar on social media, airport authorities scrambled to correct a funny—or embarrassing—greeting recently flashed on a LED display at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) Terminal 1, which left spectators either amused or mortified.

A late-stage cancer patient has saved the life of an ambulance driver who suffered a heart attack, by taking the wheel of his vehicle and driving him to hospital, French medical officials said.

The caretaker of a housing complex near Florence in Italy used a knife to scare off a thief trying to steal copper wiring and called in the police to arrest him.

French police were left baffled Wednesday following the discovery of a charred corpse hanging from a railway cable above tracks in Paris.

Just hours after his dramatic election as leader of the Catholic world, an Italian journalist in Rome said the first thing Pope Francis did was to call her up for a friendly chat.

His half brother may be the most powerful man in the world but that stardust seemed not to rub off on Malik Obama as he failed miserably to win a county gubernatorial seat in Kenya’s recently concluded polls.

Two circus camels, Simbas and Judas, disappeared in the middle of the night in central France and are still missing two days later, the director of the circus said Monday.

Paquito Ochoa, the executive secretary, is a far cry from Paquito Diaz, the late movie actor.