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While, naturally, the U.S.-centered Billboard Hot 100 chart mostly contains songs recorded in English, occasionally an international hit will become an inescapable global sensation, dominating the ...

The 2025 College Football Playoff championship will feature plenty of starlight. Between Ryan Day, Marcus Freeman, Riley Leonard, Jeremiah Smith and Caleb Love, there are a host of high-profile ...

A man from Cornwall captured footage of a whale leaping from the sea off the coast of Cornwall in an incredible display. The mighty animal was filmed breaching the water several times as it ...

In a post on social media, Project Jonah said another stranding had taken place in Christchurch, involving a juvenile beaked whale that came ashore in New Brighton. Project Jonah was called to ...

Days before Donald Trump takes the Oath of Office, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts have dropped a fiery new song, “Big Change.” “Big change is comin,'” Young sings. “You know what you ...

It’s been 25 years since Coldplay released one of the biggest hits of all time, and this song isn’t going anywhere. With Paradise, and other popular songs from Mylo Xyloto (2011), the British ...

Jonah Habedank, a senior at La Salle High School, died by suicide in December. His parents recently posted his story on Facebook, and it has now been shared thousands of times. Jonah was a ...

A ‘Blue Whale’ submarine weighting 5.5 ton has been deployed to monitor saboteurs working for Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. Russian and Chinese vessels routinely circulate its waters ...

The Wildlife Trust of India’s “Pan India Whale Shark Project” has rescued and released 1,001 whale sharks that were accidentally entangled in fishing nets, which the agency says is a ...

Musician and writer David Rothenberg is currently compiling the best whale songs ever recorded, a collection of which is to be released later this year by Important Records. Here he looks at the human ...