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Climate advocates march with signs outside the downtown San Diego headquarters of Sempra Energy on May 14, 2021.

Climate Advocates Push San Diego's Sempra Energy For Change

Climate advocate rallied to urge San Diego-based Sempra Energy to change how it does business and to stop lobbying for fossil fuels.

Blend, a Kurd from Iraq, considers himself lucky. He has only spent 14 days in a camp on the Belarusian side of the border and five days in the woods after crossing to the Polish side. When his kidney problems started to become unbearable because of lack of food and water for the last days, and he couldn't walk longer, volunteers from Polish aid organizations arrived to help.

This photographer captured how activists helped migrants at the Poland-Belarus border

Polish-based photographer Kasia Strek documented what it was like for migrants and people in Poland as the crisis evolved at the border in November.

Katie Ledecky of Team United States reacts after winning gold in the Women's 800m Freestyle at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday.

USA's Katie Ledecky Three-Peats And Wins Olympic Gold Again In 800-Meter Freestyle

U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky has won Olympic gold again in the 800-meter freestyle. She repeated her gold medal swim at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics to win at the Tokyo Olympics.

The new ocean-view deck is pictured at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla campus during construction, on Dec. 15, 2021. After the neighborhood lobbied to keep it, the towering pine tree was relocated a few feet to the south to allow for excavation and expansion.

In photos: A first look at MCASD's La Jolla campus expansion

With an April reopening date, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's La Jolla campus is finalizing construction and almost ready to hang art — including a special exhibition featuring Niki de Saint Phalle's 1960s works.

Conservative member of Parliament Neil Parish speaks at a business breakfast on June 1, 2016. He says he will resign after admitting that he watched porn in the House of Commons.

British lawmaker Neil Parish resigning after watching porn in the House of Commons

The member of Parliament says he watched pornography twice in the House of Commons in a "moment of madness." The Conservative Party suspended him Friday over the allegations.

Sandy Khabbazeh makes a pot of Syrian coffee on a stove in Oakland, N.J., on Nov. 22, 2015.

Gas stoves leak climate-warming methane even when they're off

A study finds tiny leaks from loose fittings added up to more emissions than when stoves were in use. The impact of U.S. gas stoves on climate change amounts to the same effect as a half-million cars.

A stacker-reclaimer next to a stockpile of coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia is a major coal producer. A new draft agreement at the climate summit in Scotland calls for ending coal power.

Draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit looks to rapidly speed up emissions cuts

The draft, circulated at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, calls for an end to coal power and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian speaks in Weimar, Germany on Sept. 10, 2021. France said Sept. 17 it was immediately recalling its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia after Australia scrapped a big French conventional submarine purchase in favor of nuclear subs built with U.S. technology.

France Recalls Ambassadors To The U.S. And Australia Over Snubbed Sub Deal

France said it was "unacceptable behavior" for Australia to abruptly drop a $40 billion submarine purchasing agreement with France in favor of a new deal with the U.S. and U.K.

Activists demonstrate in front of a ship carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea this spring. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Russian oil. However, most countries have not, and refineries around the world still import Russian oil.

Despite U.S. sanctions, oil traders help Russian oil reach global markets

Russia is still making billions of dollars on oil exports since invading Ukraine. That crude is still flowing abroad thanks in part to a controversial group of oil traders.

Broadway performers at the Tony Awards on Sunday.

Highlights From The Tony Awards

Moulin Rouge! The Musical took home 10 awards, including the night's biggest: Best musical. The Inheritance won for best play, and A Soldier's Play for best revival.

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