JUST IN: After two people climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and unfurled a banner on top of its spire Wednesday afternoon, one of the climbers appeared to propose to the other.
BREAKING: Two people have climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in New York City, holding a banner from the skyscraper's antenna reading, "When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace."
As of now it's unclear how the pair reached the top of the building as police work to get them down from the spire, 1,454 feet above the ground.
Gorilla in the African forest tried to keep an injured elephant alive after a leopard attack, but researchers were left in tears when they saw what happened next.
In the Congo Basin rainforest, a trail camera captured a young elephant stumbling through the trees with deep scratches along its side, believed to be from a leopard attack.
The elephant tried to keep walking, but its body finally gave out and it collapsed onto the forest floor.
Hours later, a lone gorilla appeared.
At first, it stood back, watching the elephant from a distance like it was trying to understand what was wrong. Then it slowly moved closer, gathered leaves, and pushed them toward the elephant’s mouth as if it was trying to help it eat.
But the elephant was too weak. When the gorilla realized the animal wasn’t getting up, it sat beside it, placed one hand gently on its head, and stayed there while the elephant took its final breaths.
Researchers watching the footage said the hardest part came after.
The gorilla began gathering leaves and placing them over the elephant’s body, almost like it was trying to cover it with whatever the forest could give.
Nobody knows exactly what the gorilla understood in that moment.
But the footage showed one thing clearly.
It tried to save the elephant, and when it couldn’t, it stayed to make sure it didn’t die alone.
As the World Cup begins, a Palestinian child who lost both legs in Gaza still runs after his football between tents, refusing to let Israel take away his dream.
Yet amid genocide, displacement, and unimaginable loss, this child continues to chase the game he loves, carrying a dream Israel failed to destroy.
According to UNRWA and humanitarian organizations, Gaza is home to the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history, thousands of children forced to rebuild their lives after losing limbs, homes, and futures.