Flooding across Alaska has inundated scores of homes, with several of them knocked from their foundations by large ice chunks, and shut one of the state's few east-west highways down to one lane.
Ukraine's military said it had made new advances on Wednesday in heavy fighting near the eastern city of Bakhmut, and that Russia was continuing to send in new units including paratroopers.
Many of the Sudan's hospitals have been forced to close because of bombings and a lack of supplies and staff — especially in the capital of Khartoum, where most of the fighting is taking place.
Kami Rita Sherpa, a Nepali mountain guide, scaled Mount Everest for a record 27th time on Wednesday, beating his own record, a government official and his hiking company said.
There's a two-out-of-three chance within the next five years that the world will temporarily reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change, a new World Meteorological Organization report forecasts.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a pitch Wednesday for even closer ties between Canada and South Korea, appealing to the historical links of shared sacrifice while tiptoeing around the thorny — even stark — policy differences between the two nations.
