An Australian family got a shocking serp-prize when they found a poisonous snake curled up among several stuffed animals on their child’s bed.Like something out of a horror movie, or someone’s worst nightmare, the red-bellied black snake was discovered in the child’s bedroom on Sunday morning in the town of…

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn into a second term in office.Ramaphosa, first elected in 2018, was administered his oath in a public ceremony Wednesday by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.Ramaphosa’s African National Congress, the party to which revolutionary geopolitical figure Nelson Mandela once belonged, won its narrowest-ever plurality,…

United Kingdom businessman and candidate to become a member of parliament, Steve Endacott, campaigned using an AI-generated avatar known as “AI Steve” that engages real-time with locals on various subjects and puts forth policy ideas before asking them for their suggestions.Endacott said his goal was to showcase artificial intelligence’s ability…

A fire at a military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital caused explosions, killing nine people and injuring more than 40.The cause of the fire is not yet known, but local residents panicked, thinking the explosion was an armed attack.The explosions follow political turmoil fueled by a controversial presidential election that…

A climate activism group vandalized an ancient landmark in the United Kingdom as part of a wider protest against fossil fuels.Just Stop Oil, the organization behind the Wednesday incident, is demanding “the incoming UK government commit to working with other governments to agree an equitable plan to end the extraction…

The Israel Defense Forces’ announcement that it has approved plans for an “offensive in Lebanon” is “another step towards a significant escalation” against the terrorist group Hezbollah, a former IDF spokesperson tells Fox News Digital.  The IDF released a photo this week showing a meeting of top generals discussing war…

The high price of tobacco in Gaza has given rise to a cigarette smuggling industry that now threatens United Nations aid convoys, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.Cigarettes can cost as much as $25 each in the war-torn region, and gangs have found ways to smuggle…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un signed a mutual aid pact on Wednesday, bringing the two nations closer than ever since the fall of the Soviet Union.The pact, which both leaders emphasized is a landmark agreement between the countries, reportedly covers defensive security, humanitarian…

An American solider arrested in Russia earlier this year was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on Wednesday, according to Russian state media via The Associated Press.Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, will serve three years and nine months in a Russian penal colony for theft and threats of murder…

Muslim pilgrims have wrapped up the Hajj, or pilgrimage, in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in the city of Mecca.The three-day stoning ritual in Mina, a desert site…