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Silicon Valley's favorite festival, Burning Man, was hit by a massive dust storm that messed up travel plans for tens of thousands of its participants.

More than 70,000 people traveled over the holiday weekend to Nevada's Black Rock Desert, about 100 miles from Reno, to occupy Black Rock City, the temporary town created to host Burning Man, the annual eccentric and offbeat camping event filled with art, music, creative endeavors and all manner of curious activities.

The body of a hiker was found on a remote trail in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona in what was the sixth death reported in the sprawling park this month, the authorities said.

The Grand Canyon, one of the most celebrated natural wonders in the United States, known for its deep valleys and rust-colored views, has been the site of multiple deaths this summer, raising concerns about hiker safety at the park.

A British man defaced a home preserved in time at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii in Italy, where Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

A California man who tried to intimidate flight attendants on an American Airlines flight using plastic silverware from a service cart and a glass champagne bottle, and then tried unsuccessfully to open an exit door and the cockpit, was sentenced on Wednesday to 19 months in prison.

In the middle of the pandemic, my phone pinged with an email from InterNations, an expat group I had joined after spending time in Switzerland.

A jury awarded more than $2 million to the family of a 76-year-old man who died after suffering severe burns from a 150-degree shower at a Kentucky motel.

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A Ryanair flight had to turn around after an argument broke out soon after takeoff.

Severe turbulence on an Air Europa flight to Uruguay from Spain on Monday injured more than two dozen passengers, officials said, leaving several with neck and skull fractures, in at least the second case of severe injuries from turbulence worldwide in less than a month.

A man tried to smuggle more than 100 live snakes to mainland China in his pants with just adhesive tape and canvas bags.

An American Airlines flight was diverted this week after authorities said a 25-year-old man exposed himself and urinated in the airplane's aisle mid-flight.

Delta Air Lines is ushering in a new era with the opening of its first Delta One Lounge.

Because of a rental car mishap, it was well after dark by the time Catherine Dupree and her father arrived in Canakkale, a city in northwestern Turkey, during a vacation in 2006. As they drove around the city, trying in vain to navigate to their hotel (this was well before the days of reliable mapping apps, like Waze), Ms. Dupree’s father spotted a man walking his dog and asked him for help.

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A man died after entering a plane's engine at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday.

A person died on Wednesday after they “ended up” inside a running plane engine at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, officials said, although the circumstances of the person’s death remained unclear.

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At the height of his success, John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil fortune comprised 1.5% of the gross domestic product of the United States, according to the Library of Congress. He was the world's first billionaire, with a net worth of $1.4 billion in 1937 (around $29.5 billion today), and the richest individual in the world at the time, according to Harvard Business School.

What comes to mind when you hear the words “death valley?” Some sort of desolate hellscape, I would imagine. In fairness, in the summer it’s one of the hottest places on Earth. With temperatures routinely over 120, you’d be forgiven thinking it was a place absent of all life. The truth is more surprising. While even the ultra-dry Death Valley gets rain sometimes, the last year has been exceptionally wet. It got a year’s worth of rain just between October, 2023 and April, 2024.