BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — In the courtyard of a psychiatric ward in Mali’s capital, a small group of patients acts out scenes of a village dispute to the beat of a djembe, a traditional West African drum.
Stephen Griffin, a resident at River Valley Skilled Nursing and Therapy, focuses intently on his card during a spirited game of Singo Bingo.
(AP) – Multiple powerful tornadoes ripped across Florida hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday, tearing off roofs, overturning vehicles and sucking debris into the air as the black V-shaped columns moved through.
Millaine Finch, left, helps her student, Kyi Williams with his work during class.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with several dozen legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could only just imagine what the extinct beast’s head looked like.
Skylar Adams is focused while working on schoolwork during class.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A severe solar storm is headed to Earth that could stress power grids even more as the U.S. deals with major back-to-back hurricanes, space weather forecasters said Wednesday.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
A plan to buy 55,000 Bibles for Oklahoma classrooms has been modified to be less specific and allow multiple vendors to supply the religious text and U.S. historical documents wanted by Republican State Superintendent Ryan Walters. The State Department of Education said Tuesday it worked with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to modify the bid requirements. It also extended the deadline for responses by a week to Oct. 21.