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A North Carolina mother says her 14-year-old son, who was traveling alone, almost ended up in the wrong country after he was put on the wrong connecting flight in Newark Liberty International Airport.

From trading recyclable items for transportation passes to requiring all public buses be electric, countries are thinking of creative ways to reduce carbon emissions. Climate change continues to threaten countries on every continent. Here is a look at what some of the top polluters and most eco-friendly countries are doing to try to curb their greenhouse gas emissions.

Six passengers were killed when a Danish train crossed a bridge that had been closed to cars because of high wind Wednesday, and authorities investigated if falling cargo from a passing freight train caused Denmark’s deadliest railway accident in 30 years. Authorities said the two trains were traveling in opposite directions on the bridge linking s Denmark’s islands. Aerial TV...

Scientists say an impact crater bigger than Washington, D.C. is hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in Greenland, NBC News reported. The crater, which would be the first ever discovered under a continental ice sheet, is more than 19 miles wide and 1,000 feet deep. Researchers believe it formed “after ice began to cover Greenland, so younger than...

It’s premiere night of season three and Cary Deuber is here to talk about big storylines to watch for, including her new business venture and her relationships with the other ladies.

Following his arrest and conviction of assault, drug possession and resisting arrest in Sweden earlier this week, G-Eazy, who was born Gerald Gillum, is “grateful” to be a free man — so said the rapper on social media earlier today. On Friday, G-Eazy avoided jail time but was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay 80,000 krona (around...

G-Eazy has been arrested in Sweden. Video footage obtained by TMZ shows the “Him & I” rapper getting loaded into a police car in Stockholm, hours after performing in the city with his girlfriend, Halsey, on Wednesday night. TMZ reports that G-Eazy was partying in a club and “acting belligerent” when security approached the rapper to get him to calm...

Danish submarine inventor Peter Madsen was found guilty Wednesday of torturing and murdering Swedish reporter Kim Wall before dismembering her body during a private submarine trip. He was sentenced to life in prison. Copenhagen City Court Judge Anette Burkoe said she and two jurors unanimously decided Wall’s death was a murder, finding Madsen also guilty of sexual assault and the...

Prince Henrik, the French-born husband of Danish monarch Queen Margrethe who publicly vented his frustration at not being the social equal of his wife or their son in line to become Denmark’s king, died late Tuesday. He was 83. He was diagnosed with dementia last year and his health has worsened recently. Henrik had been transferred earlier in the day...

The Danish inventor accused of torturing and killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a private submarine trip before dismembering her body is an intelligent man “with psychopathic tendencies,” a Danish prosecutor said as the murder trial opened Thursday. Peter Madsen, 47, was standing trial at Copenhagen City Court accused of torturing Wall, 30, before he either cut her throat or...

Inventor Peter Madsen was charged Tuesday with killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall during a trip on his private submarine, with prosecutors saying he either cut her throat or strangled her before dismembering her body and dumping it into the sea. Prosecutor Jakob Buch-Jepsen called the case “very unusual and extremely disturbing.” Madsen, 47, is charged with murder, dismemberment and indecent...

She was a promising young journalist, tested in trouble spots throughout the world, reporting on a Danish inventor famed for building what was thought to be the world’s largest private submarine. The story seemed to present little danger, but it cost Kim Wall her life. The Swedish journalist’s dismembered, naked torso was found on a southern Copenhagen coast in late...

The mayors of London, Los Angeles, Paris and several other major world cities are pledging to ban gasoline and diesel vehicles from “large parts” of their cities by 2030. Some cities are moving even faster to reduce emissions, and the announcement Monday by leading metropolitan areas is a bid to encourage others to do the same.

The body of a woman has been found in the Baltic Sea near where a missing Swedish journalist is believed to have died on a privately built submarine, Danish police said late Monday. A female torso without legs, arms or a head was found by a passer-by, said the head of the investigation, Jens Moller Jensen. “We have recovered the...

Copenhagen police said Thursday they are looking for a body in the case of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip on a home-built submarine. “It is our clear presumption that we are looking for a dead person,” Chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen said. Moeller Jensen said in a YouTube clip released Thursday by the Copenhagen police that “we are...

Some Copenhagen, Cope, Husky and Skoal smokeless tobacco products are being recalled after reports of metal objects have been found in the tobacco in six states.

Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian stewardess who miraculously survived a plunge from 33,000 feet after her plane exploded in mid-air in 1972, died last week. She was 66. Serbia’s state TV said Saturday Vulovic was found dead by her friends in her apartment in Belgrade. The cause of death was not immediately known. Vulovic was working as a Yugoslav Airlines flight...

China’s push for a global climate pact is partly because of its own increasingly pressing need to solve serious environmental problems, observers said Sunday.