New York City posted a job listing this week seeking someone to lead its long-running battle against rats. The official job title is "director of rodent mitigation," although it was promptly dubbed the rat czar.
U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron renewed their commitment to fighting Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Thursday in a White House meeting where the allies also acknowledged tensions over handling the economic stress of the war.
One of Ukraine's most decorated Olympians is auctioning his medals — two golds and a bronze — in hopes of raising a six-figure donation to contribute to the war effort in his native land.
The trial of a Hong Kong newspaper publisher who was arrested in a crackdown on a pro-democracy movement has been postponed after the territory's leader asked China to effectively block him from hiring a British defence lawyer.
A member of the Royal Family's household has left her role after making "unacceptable and deeply regrettable" comments about race and nationality to a woman at a grand reception at Buckingham Palace, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.
