With just a few days left in the regular season, the AL West might make a particularly mediocre kind of history.

The Oxford English Dictionary has officially added over a dozen Caribbean words."

After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.

A Mississippi wildlife rescue gives abandoned and injured baby raccoons their best chance of survival through a program they call “raccoon boot camp.”.

A truck driver who spent two decades building a massive scale model of his native New York City was delighted when it went viral on TikTok.

Police investigating a money laundering case in Norway have recovered thousands of U.S. silver coins.

Dolly Parton’s megawatt smile and big wavy locks are gracing cornfields across the U.S. and in Canada this fall.

A Paris court has awarded Kim Kardashian 1 euro in compensation for an armed robbery she experienced in 2016.

Brigid Lynch was working along a wooded creek in a mountainous part of the San Francisco Bay Area on a habitat restoration project when something that didn’t look like the rocks she’d been studying caught her eye.

A grave-digging contest in a Hungarian cemetery showcases the skills of the trade and aims to shake off death-related taboos.

The Metropolitan Opera in New York requires auditions for everyone on stage.

Yordan Alvarez is the frontrunner for AL MVP and a potential Triple Crown winner.

British police are working to recover 70,000 pints of stolen Guinness.

Young people across Latin America are gathering on beaches, parks and other public spaces to take part in "aura battles," a trend that has moved from the internet to the real world.

A 91-year-old man who goes by the nickname Grey Beard has reclaimed his record as the oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail.

With screams and giggles, Minnesota fairgoers are taking delight in the magic of the Tilt-A-Whirl ride as it turns 100 years old.

Archaeologists in Peru have unveiled skeletal remains near Huaca Pucllana, an ancient pyramid in Lima.

Kimie Smothermon runs the Guinea Pig Sanctuary in Salisbury, Massachusetts, caring for nearly 400 guinea pigs.

Rome’s ancient Nero’s Bridge has reemerged from the Tiber River as exceptionally low water levels expose parts of the historic structure near St. Peter’s Basilica.

More than 200 gold statuettes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart have disappeared from Salzburg, officials said Wednesday.

The only person to break the sound barrier in a car has earned another world record, this time in a show of force for hydrogen power.

The first and only person to break the sound barrier in a car has his eye on another speed record.

Zendaya, Kylie Jenner and Demi Moore have all walked the red carpet in Fecal Matter.

A deluge of 90,000 rubber ducks poured out of a truck and into the Chicago River.

A wildfire that swept across mountains and coastal areas west of Athens has left hundreds of animals displaced.

A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert.

Dogs are catching waves at the World Dog Surfing Championships in Northern California.

A book on Greek antiquities has been returned to an Australian public library about 150 years late, with water damage from years bricked into a fireplace.

A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom.

Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by clinging to an orangutan plushie, is marking his first birthday Sunday.

Luverne, Minnesota, now boasts the world's tallest nutcracker, Verne the Patriot, standing at over 65 feet.

Three new women's world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, Wisconsin.

For more than two centuries, a fallen Revolutionary War soldier was unknown and unnoticed.

Erling Haaland has become a social media sensation during the World Cup.

Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and elves from around the world have gathered in Aalborg, Denmark, for the annual World Santa Claus Congress.

More than 800 pounds of peanut butter have been spread across a museum floor in the Netherlands.

The Nathan’s Famous hot dog eating contest is marking the United States’ 250th birthday with chomp and circumstance.

A dog walker in Buenos Aires has turned a pack of 13 pups into local celebrities by dressing them in Argentina jerseys.

Neil, a 2,200-pound elephant seal, has returned to his birthplace on the Australian coast, causing quite a stir.

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Humpback whales are increasingly spotted off Rio de Janeiro as their population recovers from past commercial whaling.

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica tucked in a drawer.

An escaped giraffe has managed to stay a few steps ahead of a private ranch owner and local officials in Texas Hill Country for nearly two weeks.

Merlín the duck, Mexico’s unofficial World Cup mascot, stole the spotlight at President Claudia Sheinbaum’s news briefing.

World Cup tickets, flights and hotel rooms are expensive.

As World Cup fever grips Mexico City, an unlikely star has emerged.

Brazilian fans visiting Philadelphia for the World Cup are avoiding dressing the Rocky statue in their team colors.

Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez may have scored for Mexico, but Merlin the duck stole the show.

A New York man has gone viral for a prediction he made in his high school yearbook six years ago that the New York Knicks would win an NBA title in 2026.

Australian officials say they confiscated more than 100,000 illegal live cockroaches from a breeder in May in the country's largest-ever seizure of exotic invertebrates.

A former urban explorer says the most unpleasant part of exploring New York City’s sewer system was the cockroaches, not the rats, smells or ever-present dangers.

A rare albino buffalo named after U.S. President Donald Trump for his distinctive blond tuft is drawing crowds at a Bangladesh zoo.

A series of bizarre sightings of people popping in and out of New York’s vast, subterranean sewer system in recent days has the whole city wondering what exactly is going on.

Thousands of people in New Zealand have attended one of the world’s best-known steampunk festivals.

American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team’s training session Friday.

A study details a surprising new way into how pigeons find their way home.

Dozens of soon-to-be graduates of a Michigan high school eschewed their cars and trucks and arrived in tractors, ATVs, golf carts and more.

A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades.

An Australian farmer has found a live frog in a bag of lettuce.

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the “no shirt, no problem,” mantra.

Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett, and the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit.

Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations.

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive ruby, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the country.

Storm chaser Ashton Lemley was helping search through a Mississippi trailer park destroyed by tornadoes when he heard a kitten meowing from the rubble.

People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season.

The radio station WKRP isn't dead, and it's now live on air in Cincinnati.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.

Albany residents love Nipper, a giant dog statue perched atop a warehouse for nearly seven decades.

A French teen faces charges in Singapore after posting a video of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back.

If you can't visit the original Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, you might find a dead ringer nearby.

Two paramedics helped deliver a baby girl on a Delta flight as it landed in Portland, Oregon.

A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, sparing the critter from the kettle because of its remarkable coloration.

A sheep at Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill, Vermont, gave birth to a rare batch of six lambs earlier this month.

The Palm Beach Zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate.

Seattle Mariners starter Logan Gilbert can thank his jersey for stopping at least one earned run Wednesday.

Two friends have claimed a bizarre record by driving a decades-old British three-wheel car about 14,000 miles from the U.K. to the southern tip of Africa for the longest trip by a three-wheel vehicle.

Three people in California have been sentenced for insurance fraud involving a person in a bear costume damaging high-end cars.

About 1 million bees temporarily took over an interstate exit ramp in East Tennessee after a beekeepers’ truck crashed and set them loose.

A suspected purse snatcher was rounded up after being chased through the streets of Manhattan by a mounted New York police office and his horse.

Two male runners in South Africa who were discovered fraudulently competing on behalf of female colleagues in a top marathon have been disqualified.

In September 1963, before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in the southern Illinois town of Benton.

Yuji, a 6-week-old patas monkey, wakes up every day clinging to a stuffed dog.

Germans are preparing a rescue operation for a sick humpback whale stranded off the Baltic Sea coast.

Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh.

They're called meat raffles, and they're a tradition in a few pockets of the U.S. They're featured mainly at neighborhood bars or at American Legion or VFW posts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York state.

A Parisian art enthusiast has won a Pablo Picasso painting with a $117 raffle ticket.

The world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity has celebrated her 69th birthday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has dismissed rumors about his health by doing jumping jacks and jogging outside his office.

In Havana, a special underwater bus has become essential as Cuba faces its worst energy crisis in decades.

A statue has been unveiled of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki at the Seattle Mariners' T-Mobile Park.

A Buffalo-area man has given up his legal battle to reclaim his seized alligator, Albert.

Xander Schauffele’s tee shot on the par-5 eighth hole at Augusta National came to rest in somebody’s merchandise bag.

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal will no longer print its rival the Las Vegas Sun for the first time in decades, sharpening a longtime legal dispute between the southern Nevada newspapers.

Reports of the death of Jonathan, the world’s oldest living land animal, have been greatly exaggerated.

A lost border collie has been rescued alive after her owner fell from a tall waterfall in New Zealand bush.

A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench.