Legend has it that harvesting local Stemilt cherries around the full moon makes the fruit taste much sweeter.
Due to Freya's friendly nature, crowds would ignore warnings not to get close to her and take pictures, putting both themselves and the walrus at risk.
This year's celebration focuses on raising awareness of barriers to intergenerational solidarity, especially ageism, that detrimentally affects both the young and elderly.
A 63-year-old woman died after a loose beach umbrella impaled her in the chest at a beach in South Carolina on Wednesday.
At least 34 people sustained injuries in a crash between two rollercoaster trains at a theme park in Germany on Thursday.
In a tragic incident reported from Germany, a 57-year-old woman died after falling from a moving rollercoaster at a leisure park.
National Spoil Your Dog Day happens once a year, but that doesn't mean you can't spoil them during the other 364 days.
China has reported cases of a potentially fatal new virus called Langya, which is believed to have been transferred from shrews to humans.
A 15-year-old boy was mauled to death by a giant crocodile near a lake in Ternate City, Indonesia
In a tragic incident reported from Bangladesh, a British family of five lost three members within the span of just one week.
Today, we celebrate the half of a billion cats roaming among us. Here are 4 fun cat facts you should keep in mind while observing this holiday.
Cheers! Let's celebrate drinking beer.
The pony was forced to leave the local pub after a complaint was filed to the Torbay Council.
The United Nations' secretary general, António Guterres in a dire warning said that the world is just one misstep away from nuclear annihilation.
The body of the pilot, who is thought to have jumped or fallen off a plane mid-air during an emergency landing, was found behind a house.
A giant TV screen fell off and injured two performers during boy band Mirror's concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum on Thursday.
Piles of discarded unwanted clothes have been washing up on the beaches of Accra, creating an environmental catastrophe.
A 26-year-old pregnant woman managed to deliver her baby minutes before she died after being mowed by a truck in the Firozabad city of Uttar Pradesh in India.
The Italian capital, Rome, has been romanticised for decades, but what the movies choose to not show has been revealed by a poll by Times Out magazine.
As many as 21 people, including 18 women and children, died after the boat carrying more than 100 people capsized in the Indus River.
Three unfinished sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani were found hidden in one of his paintings by curators.
India is expected to overtake China as the world's most populous country by next year, according to a United Nations report.
A 3-year-old child, Sholom Tauber, died after being accidentally left inside a car unattended for hours in the parking lot of a South Florida preschool.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand has been living the life that many of us cannot even imagine of living.
A six-year-old boy died while his father is fighting for life in an alleged case of food poisoning at a holiday resort in Egypt.
An Austrian woman was viciously mauled to death by a shark while snorkelling at the bay of Sahl Hasheesh on the Red Sea coast on Friday.
Days after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 10-year-old rape victim had to travel all the way to Indiana from Ohio to get an abortion.
An 8-year-old boy, Joe, who had been missing for more than a week, was found alive in a storm drain near his parents' house in the city of Oldenburg, Germany.
A US exploration team has managed to successfully unearth a ship that had sunk during World War II
At least 22 young people, some of them as young as 13, were found dead inside a popular at a night club in the city of East London, South Africa.