Books are kept in hermetically sealed plastic sacks for disinfection, at the Pannonhalma Archabbey's library in Pannonhalma, Hungary on July 3. Bela Szandelszky/AP hide caption toggle caption Bela Szandelszky/AP PANNONHALMA, Hungary — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save
A Palestinian boy mourns over the body of his 12-year-old friend, Abdullah Ahmed, who was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a drinking water distribution point, at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 13, 2025. Abdel Kareem Hana/AP hide caption toggle caption Abdel Kareem Hana/AP DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli
Members of the Indian Army's engineering team prepare to remove the wreckage of an Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India June 14, 2025. Basit Zargar/AFP via Getty hide caption toggle caption Basit Zargar/AFP via Getty A pair of switches that
An apartment building in the city of Sumy after Russia struck it with a Shahed drone early this year. "We need more air defense, we need more everything," said Anton Svachko, a member of Ukraine's parliament from the city. Anton Shtuka for NPR hide caption toggle caption Anton Shtuka for NPR SUMY, Ukraine — That
US President Donald Trump participates in a multilateral lunch with visiting African Leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2025 JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images LAGOS, Nigeria — The presidents of the West African countries of Senegal
Enlarge this image In the visitor center in the town of Civitella Alfedena inside Italy's National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise, you can see wolves rescued inside the park. Paolo Picciotto/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paolo Picciotto/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the visitor center in the town
President Donald Trump speaks alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Netanyahu and Trump are to meet again on Monday. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America WASHINGTON — Israel Prime
The MingKwai typewriter's keys enable the typist to find and retrieve Chinese characters. Elisabeth von Boch/Stanford hide caption toggle caption Elisabeth von Boch/Stanford STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese
