Author: Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY

The University of Canberra’s library was evacuated last week after a suspected gas leak turned out to be a durian, the particularly pungent fruit.

Birgitte Kallestad died earlier this week. A stray puppy she rescued in the Philippines bit her months ago, but doctors didn’t know she had rabies.

A Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plagueafter eating raw marmot meat, sparking a quarantine that trapped tourists for days, officials said.

A Mongolian couple died from the bubonic plagueafter eating raw marmot meat, sparking a quarantine that trapped tourists for days, officials said.

A clean-up team in Nepal recently brought down more than three tons of garbage from Mount Everest in an effort to rid the peak of pollution.

More than half of Austrians surveyed didn’t know six million Jewish people were killed in the Holocaust, a new survey released on HaShoah found.

In a tweet that sparked disbelief and social media jabs, the Indian Army said its mountaineer spotted footprints of the “mythical beast ‘Yeti.'”

Antarctic’sHalley Bay colony of emperor penguins has seen a “catastrophic breeding failure” over the past three years linked to melting sea ice.

Seven members of the radical Muslim group National Thowfeek Jamaath killed at least 290 people on Easter Sunday, Sri Lankan officials said.

At least 290 people were killed in a string of suicide bombings carried out by a domestic militant group in Sri Lanka. Here’s what we know now.