More than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm off South Africa and rescued by members of the public.

A town in Japan is building a large black screen to block the view of the country’s iconic Mount Fuji, in an effort to fend off misbehaving foreign tourists.

On April 30, 1968, police arrested nearly 700 protesters who had occupied buildings at Columbia, including Hamilton Hall. Fifty-six years later, pro-Palestinian activists have taken over the same building.

A U.K. mom says “the unthinkable happened” when she was handed the wrong baby in a hospital maternity ward and cared for the infant for several hours.

Pro-Palestinian student groups described the students who have occupied Columbia University's Hamilton Hall since early Tuesday as an "autonomous" subgroup of those involved in the encampment that had overtaken the Ivy League campus' West Lawn.

In its information war against the U.S., Russia is seeking to exploit divisions over Israel’s offensive in Gaza to aggravate political tensions among Americans.

Columbia University administrators shut down much of the school Tuesday, upending campus life for virtually all students and staff members in the wake of ongoing student protests over the Israel-Hamas war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken continues his diplomatic push for a temporary cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas. NBC News International Correspondent Raf Sanchez reports from Tel Aviv.

Lidia Stepanivna Lumikovska was eventually picked up by a police unit that specializes in frontline evacuations. “I survived that war,” she said, referring to World War Two, “and I am surviving this war.”

Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Bélizaire as the Caribbean country’s prime minister Tuesday.

Retired Mexican Roman Catholic bishop Msgr. Salvador Rangel, who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels was located and taken to a hospital after apparently being briefly kidnapped.

As Russian forces approached her village in eastern Ukraine, Lidia Stepanivna Lumikovska decided to leave her village and walk to safety.