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The 8-year-old rescue dog, who was once deemed too friendly to sniff out drugs, found the body of the earthquake’s 13th victim.

Saturday’s stabbing attack in Sydney horrified a country not used to such acts.

Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport's first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in the sport's popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54.

The neighboring United Arab Emirates also experienced its largest rainfall in 75 years, with a year’s worth of rain falling on Dubai alone.

A year’s worth of rain fell in one day in some areas across Oman and the United Arab Emirates, bringing cities to a standstill.

Cars drive through a flooded street following heavy rains in Dubai on Wednesday. While some have speculated that cloud seeding could have contributed to the extreme weather, scientists said this was very unlikely. |

A large-scale outage on Wednesday affected residents' ability to call the 911 emergency number in parts of Nebraska and Texas, the entire state of South Dakota and Las Vegas, according to local authorities.

Galena, a 6-year-old shorthair, was found in an Amazon warehouse a week after she climbed into a 3-by-3-foot cardboard box at her owner’s home.

Protesters had occupied a building for over a week, leading the university to shut down the campus.

The university called in law enforcement officers to help after “horrific acts of violence” occurred on campus Tuesday night, an official said.