Japan has deployed more than 2,000 troops and firefighters from across the country to fight a forest fire in a northeastern coastal city that has damaged dozens of homes and forced the evacuation of more than 1,200 people. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares of forest in Ōfunato since it started last Wednesday, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.
France and Britain are proposing a one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine that would cover air, sea and energy infrastructure attacks but not include ground fighting, French President Emmanuel Macron and his foreign minister said.
Check out highlights of carnival celebrations — a period of public revelry usually during the week before Lent in Roman Catholic countries featuring processions, music, dancing and the use of masquerade.
James Harrison, who according to the Australian Red Cross was the world's most prolific blood and plasma donor, has died at age 88.
A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, a success for the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial neighbor ahead of astronaut missions.
