LONDON — LONDON (AP) — British teenager Alex Batty flew back to the U.K. on Saturday, six years after he left home on what was meant to be a two-week family vacation in Spain. Batty never returned from that holiday to his grandmother and guardian in Oldham, near Manchester. Her frantic appeals found no trace … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave LONDON — A British boy who went missing in Europe six years ago has been found — walking along a roadside in southwest France — in a mystery that has electrified the British media and overjoyed his grandmother, who wasn’t sure whether he was still alive. Alex … Read more
STORY: The boy disappeared at the age of 11 during a holiday with his mother and grandfather in Malaga, Spain, in 2017. Greater Manchester Police said the teenager, who left a spiritualist community in the Pyrenees mountains to return to the UK, met with a relative and police officers, who accompanied him on his journey … Read more
For a year, a rogue tomato was missing in action on board the International Space Station (ISS), sparking rumors that an astronaut may have eaten it during a moment of weakness. It turns out that there were actually two missing tomatoes, not just one, found squished in a tiny ziplock bag, and they’re looking a … Read more
STORY: A British teen who was found in France after being missing for six years… is expected to return to his family in northern England in the next few days, police said on Friday (December 15). That’s after he apparently fled a spiritualist community in the Pyrenees mountains. In 2017, Alex Batty disappeared at the … Read more
PARIS — A British teenager who went missing six years ago on a family holiday in Spain has been found in southwestern France, French media reported on Thursday. Broadcasters BFMTV and TF1 cited the prosecutors’ office in Toulouse as saying that Alex Batty, 17, has been found. BFMTV said a delivery driver spotted the adolescent … Read more
A Rochester Institute of Technology student who had been missing for more than three weeks has been found safe. Matthew Grant, 22, was located and has been reunited with his family, according to a press release by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday. Details were not released regarding Grant’s whereabouts or how he was … Read more
The curious case of the conspicuously absent cherry tomato has finally been put to rest eight months after the lab-grown edible went missing. Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI Unlocked In space, no one can hear a tomato scream, even when it’s lost. NASA’s Veg-05 experiment, a project focusing on … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s government is pouring resources into detecting what it suggests are “fake” missing people — cases reported by political opponents to embarrass the government, or kidnapped people who return home but don’t notify authorities. Yet officials make no significant effort to find actual missing people, angering the families of Mexico’s estimated 113,000 … Read more
LUSAKA, Zambia — A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday. The 49-year-old survivor was rescued Tuesday night, according to a statement by Zambia’s Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit. He told rescuers he … Read more