After three days of unwavering grief in Greece following the sinking of a vessel carrying hundreds of migrants to Europe, two brothers had a tearful reunion. Meanwhile, UN officials and human rights groups called on European authorities to get tougher on human traffickers and demanded safer migration routes for asylum seekers.
Fifteen Hawksbill and six Green turtles of varying ages were released back into the wild by Dubai's Turtle Rehabilitation Project in order to mark World Sea Turtle Day. They were found washed up on the shore, and rescued to an aquarium facility where they could recover before their celebratory release.
Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who, by leaking the Pentagon Papers, revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by then President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died of pancreatic cancer.
A truck driver who expressed hated of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die.
Pope Francis on Friday was discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring, with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now "better than before" the hospitalization.
The U.S. Justice Department has begun to examine an agreement between the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabian backers of LIV Golf to determine whether it violates federal antitrust statutes, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
