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The rescue took place last Friday on the Fee Glacier above Saas-Fee in the southern Swiss Alps

Hiker in Alpine crevasse rescued by a Chihuahua

When it comes to mountain rescues, St Bernards may have met their match, with a Chihuahua being hailed for helping save a man who fell into a glacier crevasse in Switzerland.

News Lens • 07 Jul

Atomic bomb survivor Hidetaka Takiguchi listens to a student as she speaks during a preview of the artwork Motomachi High School in Hiroshima

Hiroshima students relay atom bomb horror with artworks

Trudging through the ruins of Hiroshima after the US atom bombing four days before in 1945, five-year-old Masaki Hironaka clutched his mother's hand and silently vowed to protect her.

News Lens • 06 Jul

A swimmer jumps in the water at the Grenelle safe bathing site on the Seine river on its opening day

Paris opens Seine for swimming for first time since 1923

Parisians rushed for a dip in the Seine as the authorities opened the river to public swimming for the first time since 1923 after an extensive clean-up operation spurred on by it being used as a venue in the Paris Olympics.

News Lens • 06 Jul

A Harlequin Tree frog seen at Kubah National Park in Kuching, capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo

'Frogging' takes off in Borneo's jungle

Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean rainforest, scanning with torches for some of the jungle's most unlikely stars: frogs.

News Lens • 04 Jul

Vue de la plage d'Herlin à Belle-Ile-en-Mer, dans le Morbihan, France. (Photo by Brigitte MERLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

US couple risk France trial over stolen shipwreck gold

An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck, after French prosecutors requested the case go to court.

News Lens • 03 Jul

Planet Earth viewed from space with glowing city lights. Europe view. World with shine sunrise from the space. Textures furnished from public domain NASA https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/55167/earths-city-lights

Possible interstellar object zooms through solar system

An object from outside the solar system has been spotted hurtling towards the sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said.

newslens • 02 Jul

Thierry Tortosa, paleontologist and curator of the Sainte-Victoire national reserve, shows dinosaur eggs found at the Mount Sainte-Victoire site

Eggs en Provence: France's unique dinosaur egg trove

At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalised by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a palaeontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils.

News Lens • 02 Jul

The number of companies and institutions taking part, and getting no financial gain in return, has increased four-fold

Copenhagen summer offer: Pick up rubbish, get free stuff

Mexican tourist Rocio Gomez spent an hour boating on Copenhagen's canals free of charge in exchange for picking up rubbish in the water, part of a city programme for rewarding eco-friendly tourists.

News Lens • 02 Jul

Tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra on April 23, 2025

Most world heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding

Almost three quarters of the globe's cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN's cultural agency said.

News Lens • 01 Jul

Man films himself in front of tornado in South Dakota

One man casually filmed himself in front of a large tornado funnel in the US city of Gary, saying to the camera: "Just a little tornado behind me."

News Lens • 01 Jul

Norwegian 1 kroner coins on top of 200 kroner and 100 kroner bills

Thousands in Norway wrongly told they won big on lottery

A Norwegian lottery company has apologised to 47,000 people who were mistakenly told they had won huge sums in a lottery, with the firm blaming a currency conversion error.

News Lens • 01 Jul

Dalai Lama suggests 600-year-old institution to continue

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, his given the strongest indication yet that the 600-year-old institution would continue after his death, at prayer celebrations for his 90th birthday.

News Lens • 30 Jun

People on sinking Tuvalu seek Australia's climate visas

More than one-third of the people in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, have applied for a landmark climate visa to migrate to Australia, according to official figures.

News Lens • 29 Jun

Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama attends a prayer ceremony

'Simple monk': the Dalai Lama, in his translator's words

With his flowing red monk's robes, beaming smile and contagious laugh, the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has been the charismatic global face of his people's cause for decades.

News Lens • 27 Jun

north korea leader kim jong un attends the opening of the Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area

Pools, slides as North Korea set to open tourist resort

North Korea has completed construction on a massive tourist resort boasting colourful water slides and swimming pools, state media said, a pet project of leader Kim Jong-un.

News Lens • 26 Jun

Gilded imperial furniture went under the hammer

Napoleon collection sells at auction in Paris for €8.7m

Artwork and curios linked to Napoleon Bonaparte, including one of his iconic bicorne hats, has sold for €8.7 million in Paris, according to Sotheby's.

News Lens • 26 Jun

Palestinian photographer and Instagram star Motaz Azaiza speaks during a discussion with scholar Noura Erakat

The reluctant fame of Gazan photojournalist Motaz Azaiza

At a church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hundreds of people gathered recently for a weeknight charity fundraiser hosted by a celebrity guest.

News Lens • 26 Jun

Takamatsu Gushiken has voluntarily searched for Japan's war dead for more than four decades

Japanese volunteer searches Okinawa for WWII remains

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human remains have lain forgotten since World War II.

News Lens • 25 Jun

Sasha Cordle with one of her horses - tests show the spring water on her property is laced with 'forever chemicals'

Toxic threat sparks resistance in Georgia towns

Sasha and Jamie Cordle thought their small farm in rural Georgia would be a ladder out of working-class struggle, and a gift for their children and grandchildren.

News Lens • 25 Jun

General view of Sfera con Sfera by Arnaldo Pomodoro in Trinity College Library in Dublin, Ireland, on November 2024 (Photo by Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

Renowned Italian sculptor Pomodoro dies aged 98

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, renowned for his huge bronze spheres, including one at TCD, has died a day before his 99th birthday.

World • 24 Jun

Activists unveiled a banner in St Mark's Square

Greenpeace joins protests over Bezos's Venice wedding

Greenpeace has added its voice to protests against this week's celebrity wedding in Venice between American tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and journalist Laura Sanchez.

Environment • 24 Jun

Trond Robertsen patrols between barracks at the weather station at the North Coast of remote Norwegian territory Bear Island (Bjornoya)

Meteorologist with a first-row seat to climate change

In the cold of the Norwegian Arctic, meteorologist Trond Robertsen manually recorded precipitation levels for over two decades, witnessing first hand the effects of climate change.

News Lens • 23 Jun

The observatory is named after pioneering US astronomer Vera C Rubin

Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory reveals first images

The team behind the long-awaited Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile published their first images, revealing breathtaking views of star-forming regions as well as distant galaxies.

News Lens • 23 Jun

Experts work on remains found during an excavation to install a gas pipeline in Lima, Peru

Peru gas workers find thousand-year-old mummy

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.

News Lens • 20 Jun

Mokoko (L) and Labubu in an exhibition room at Pop Mart's theme park Pop Land in Beijing

Labubu dolls ride China soft-power wave

Small, fuzzy and baring sharp teeth, Chinese toymaker Pop Mart's Labubu monster dolls have taken over the world, drawing excited crowds at international stores and adorning the handbags of celebrities such as Rihanna and Cher.

News Lens • 20 Jun