MUNICH — Johann Westhauser, the spelunker trapped in Germany's deepest cave after becoming injured by falling rock on June 8, reached the surface Thursday in a rescue effort that relied on help from six countries.
SÃO PAULO – Jozy Altidore has been ruled out of the U.S. national team's World Cup match against Portugal on Sunday because of a strained left hamstring, a long-anticipated announcement made by the U.S. Soccer Federation on Thursday.
President Luis Guillermo Solís released a decree granting public sector workers permission to do what they almost certainly would have been doing anyway: watching Costa Rica play Italy and England in the World Cup.
In the great debate about climate change, James Bolag is a maverick: The renowned photojournalist headed to the Arctic Circle with a team of assistants, set up cameras among the fjords, and filmed time-lapse footage of the melting glaciers.
Heavyweights England and Uruguay must resurrect their World Cup hopes or face the prospect of an early flight home when they collide in a Group D fixture on Thursday at 1 p.m.
"Fabien Cousteau is on the ocean floor right now, and he's not coming up for air until July." So begins Svati Kirsten Narula's story in the Atlantic magazine about the undersea adventure called Mission 31.
The Internet is full of strange and bewildering neologisms, which anyone but a text-addled teen would struggle to understand. So the fine, taxpayer-funded people of the FBI — apparently not content to trawl Urban Dictionary, like the rest of us — compiled a glossary of Internet slang.
DiCaprio highlighted the lack of enforcement in protected areas around the world, including his experience at Costa Rica's Cocos Island, in his remarks at the Our Oceans conference Tuesday in Washington, D.C.
