The dog days of summer arrived at Nationals Park.

Two men who were struck by lightning on a Colorado peak were flown to safety in what is believed to be the highest helicopter rescues on record in the mountainous state.

Thousands and thousands of Pitbull fans dressed up for his London shows this week wearing bald caps, a white shirt, black tie and drawn-on facial hair, before swarming to the city’s O2 Arena.

Pitbull's getting used to looking out at a crowd and seeing thousands of look-alikes staring back at him.

In the heart of Spain’s capital, the famous Sobrino de Botín restaurant proudly holds the title of being the world’s oldest restaurant.

The leaders of a sex-focused women’s wellness company that promoted “orgasmic meditation” have been convicted of federal forced labor charges.

A runaway pet zebra has been captured in Tennessee.

Throngs of people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

An Australian woman on trial for the triple murder of her estranged husband's relatives and the attempted murder of another has told the Supreme Court in the state of Victoria that she carefully planned the July 2023 lunch where her dinner guests were poisoned with death cap mushrooms.

A hungry wild elephant has caused havoc in a grocery store in Thailand after strolling in from the Khao Yai National Park and helping himself to the food on the shelves.

Visitors to historic sites in North Dakota will soon have flush toilets available.

About 250 million honeybees took to the skies when a commercial truck carrying them overturned in Washington state near the Canadian border.

A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and displayed on the floor of an art gallery in the city of Nelson has been removed from display after protests.

An Alaska man escaped unscathed after being trapped by a 700-pound boulder for three hours during a hike in a remote area last weekend.

Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday.

There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee.

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in South Africa on Tuesday.

An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat reached his destination Saturday.

The top dog in a race among the six iconic Wienermobiles from Oscar Mayer proved to be the one representing the Southeast.

It’s called the Palm Dog contest, but the winner of the annual Cannes Film Festival tradition was a Panda.

Pato O'Ward hopes spending the morning milking a cow will help him finally clear out the negative karma keeping him from winning the Indianapolis 500.

A monk has been hospitalized after an altercation at a monastic community in Greece, linked to a longstanding religious dispute.

In New Zealand’s Parliament, every legislator has the chance to advance a proposed law, no matter how unpopular, thanks to an unusual lottery where bills are selected by random draw from a cookie tin.

A woman who was able to sneak onto a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass last year has been convicted of a stowaway charge.

There's another artificial intelligence blunder impacting news organizations.

A pet kangaroo was on the loose in Colorado.

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

More than 12,000 chicks at a Delaware distribution center were found left in a USPS truck for more than three days.

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.

Stars in glamorous gowns often peacock on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, but one attendee Saturday night literally came as a bird.

Heather Donahue starred in the low-budget hit movie “The Blair Witch Project” and has been embroiled in a spat with locals in her tiny Maine town after she started marking trees to help people find their way in the dense forests.

Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of U.S. first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown.

The feijoa, not the kiwi, is the unofficial fruit of New Zealand, but it remains unknown to much of the world.

The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world.

It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age.

Liam and Olivia have, for a sixth year together, topped the list of names for babies born in the U.S. in 2024.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave.

Former Celtics great Paul Pierce was so confident in his team in Game 2 against the Knicks, he said he would walk to work barefoot “in my robe” if they lost for a second straight game in the second-round series.

New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people.

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first time.

Baseball players from major leaguers to Little Leaguers are using sliding mitts as a form of self-expression, even if at some levels, they're not needed at all.

May the 4th be with you.

The backcountry sport of burro racing is a grueling feat of endurance that tests the sudden urge to stand still.

Size differences didn't cause any issues when the world's tallest and smallest dogs met up for a playdate last month.

A slab of Brooklyn wall that the artist Banksy emblazoned with a bandaged, heart-shaped balloon is emerging after more than a decade in storage.

During the War of 1812, residents of Rockport, Massachusetts, hurled rocks at British soldiers using their stockings as slings.

A runaway kangaroo shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday.

A New York zoo is hand-feeding a baby vulture with a realistic bird puppet to ensure it survives to maturity.

Police in Japan say that climber who was airlifted with altitude sickness from near the peak of Japan’s Mount Fuji last week returned to the slope and was rescued for a second time just four days later.

A rare perfect break of 147 at the world snooker championship has earned a lucky fan $33,000.

The Los Angeles Kings have brought back the harmonica-playing senior citizens whose rendition of the national anthem caused a sensation before their playoff opener.

In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital.

For Sonia Pérez, stepping into Havana’s Doña Alicia restaurant felt like entering a movie.

A 24-year-old American YouTuber who visited a restricted island in the Indian Ocean last month with a Diet Coke as offering for an isolated tribe has been further detained.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last few years.

Residents of a small Michigan community stood side by side to help a local bookstore move 9,100 books — one by one — from its former site to a new location about a block away.

At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a herd of African elephants was caught on video running over to protect their young by encircling them during a 5.2 magnitude earthquake.

A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak.

German police in Cologne have detained five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who had tried to climb the city’s famous cathedral.

Animal lovers now have a place to hang out with the “it” animals of the moment.

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pecked by an ostrich at a wildlife park in Texas.

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, has been discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies.

Torpedo bats drew attention over the weekend when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers in one game.

Bodega cats in New York City are widely loved feline workers in the Big Apple's convenience stores.

A Hawaii boat captain who rebuilt her whale-watching tour business after losing three boats in the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire captured iPhone footage her of golden retriever barking excitedly when a humpback swam near them over the weekend.

The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy, melancholy eyes of Peter Lorre.

From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day is celebrated with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes.

Left homeless after Hurricane Milton destroyed the Tropicana Field roof on Oct. 9, the Tampa Bay Rays began their season as renters at Steinbrenner Field, the spring training headquarters for the Yankees, playing the Colorado Rockies in the final major league opener.

Two British service members have admitted they broke and stole half of a statue of Paddington Bear.

Yellowstone National Park has a new thermal vent spewing steam in the air that could be visible to tourists once visitors flock back into the park.

When the COVID pandemic practically shut down Nashville's animal shelters, a volunteer photographer tried something different to get more dogs adopted.

Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises and late-night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at New Zealand's parliament in Wellington.

The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds.

A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace has been convicted along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art valued at more than $6 million.

The Chicago River is once again glowing kelly green as the city opens its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

A Michigan judge came up with a creative way to punish Walmart shoplifters: wash cars for free in the community when spring arrives.

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided as an “SOB” — a state “Seal on a Bedsheet.”.

A house cat named Aggie has found her way back to her owner two months after the LA wildfires.

Authorities say a man passing through security at a New Jersey airport was found to have a live turtle concealed in his pants.

A Cheeto shaped like the beloved Pokémon Charizard has sold at auction for a total cost of $87,840.

A bucktoothed llama that spends his days comforting chronically ill children at a North Carolina camp founded by NASCAR royalty has been crowned the world’s oldest llama in captivity.

A dolphin weighing more than 900 pounds appeared to fall out of the sky before landing in a small fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand, shocking the three men on board.

Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London square with a frying pan in hand to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, or “Pancake Day.”.

It’s timber over Tinder in a forest in northern Germany where the Bridegroom’s Oak has connected lovers for more than a century.

Czech cold-water swimmers have set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip.

Hollywood’s never-ending awards season can make it easy to get a little lost in the run-of-the-mill “best” categories.

A Gator took on a gator.

A horse that fell through the ice of an upstate New York pond was saved by rescuers who pulled together fiercely on ropes to free the animal from the frigid water.

Baby white rhino Nova has given her first open-air media show, jumping and frolicking with her mother Ellie in her enclosure at the Pairi Daiza zoo.

Authorities in Colorado say thieves nabbed a pair of high-priced bulldogs from a pet store after one of them allegedly faked a seizure to distract employees while an accomplice grabbed the puppies from a pen and ran out.

Colombian police apprehended a 40-year-old man attempting to smuggle several bags of cocaine concealed beneath a meticulously attached toupee.

A luxury home that had been on the verge of tumbling into Massachusetts' Cape Cod Bay due to erosion has been demolished.

A Michigan veterinarian says she rescued a distressed dog.

A vacation photo posted online by Shanghai-based designer Guo Qingshan and captioned “Puppy Mountain” has become a sensation in China.

Adrian Wojnarowski is cleaning out his office of cell phones and press passes, and even offering dinner dates in a bid to raise name, image and likeness funds for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball program.

The trial of three men accused in the theft or sale of an 18-carat gold toilet that was a pricey piece of satirical art is underway in Britain.