Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several years -- even as the cooling La Niña phenomenon had a firm grip on the Pacific. The oceans have been record-warm for the past four years, scientists reported in January. Then in mid-March, climatologists noted that global sea surface temperature climbed to a new high.

Officers killed the man early Saturday outside the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount. The killing risks raising tensions during Ramadan.

A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police.

A Taliban official says a women-run radio station in Afghanistan's northeast was closed for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan