The “raft” was captured by NASA Earth Observatory days after an underwater volcano 130 feet deep may have erupted near the island of Tonga.
Author: Joshua Bote, USA TODAY
Adoring fans of ‘jumbo-sized’ cat weighing 26 pounds crash shelter’s website
Weighing in at 26 pounds, Mr. B — short for Beejay — is a precious big cat waiting to be adopted at the Morris Animal Refuge in Philadelphia.
Man flees police on mobility scooter in low-speed chase as onlookers cheer ‘Go old man!’
The video shows Charlie Durham, a double amputee, speeding on his scooteras a police officer attempted to pull him over in New Zealand.
A man was bitten in the arm by Fidel Castro’s old crocodile in Sweden
The man, who was in his mid-70s, was attending a crayfish party — a summer celebration customary in Sweden — at Stockholm’s Skansen Aquarium.
Man sentenced to 8 years in prison for smuggling erectile dysfunction drugs from China
John Lee pled guilty to conspiracy, smuggling contraband, and filing a false tax return. Lee sold pills with tadalafil, the ingredient found in Cialis.
Waiter shot dead by customer who waited too long for sandwich in France, witnesses say
The unidentified customer shot the waiter in the shoulder with a handgun. The restaurant is in the Paris suburb of Noisy-le-Grand.
Amazon pays warehouse workers to say good things on Twitter. The campaign is getting backlash online
Last August, Amazon began paying several workers to tweet positively about their experience as fulfillment center workers.
Report: Uber spent $200K a year on balloons for staff anniversaries; stickers to be used instead
To cut back on costs, Uber is cutting helium balloons, which cost the company over $200,000 a year, a report says.
A man who switched to more affordable insulin died. Here’s what happened in the viral story
Josh Wilkerson, 27, died in June from complications due to Type I diabetes. He switched to over-the-counter insulin after losing his insurance last year.
Over $1 billion worth of cocaine seized in Germany’s largest bust
Officials said Friday that they inspected a shipment labeled soy beans. What they found was 10,000 pounds of cocaine — worth over $1 billion.