One Battle After Another actress Chase Infiniti wore a trompe de l'oel sheath dress by Thom Brown inspired by the Venus de Milo, stacked with more than 1.5 sequins to create a rainbow mural-esq facade for her attendance at the 2026 Met Gala ceremony, this year themed as a "Costume Art" exhibit. See Full Story>
Mount Dukono, an active volcano on the Indonesian archipelago Island of Halmahera, erupted as a group of 20 hikers set out on an expedition, killing three people, two Singaporean men and an Indonesian woman near the rim of the crater, according to the National Disaster Management Agency. See Full Story>
Authorities in China continue to investigate the cause of an explosion at the Huasheng Fireworks Manufacturing & Display Company plant in the city of Changsha, Hunan province, which killed at least 26 people and injured 61 others, prompting a halt to production of the products near the region. See Full Story>
The National Mining Agency (ANM) says a buildup of gases at a coal mine in Sutatausa, a municipality of the Colombian province of Cundinamarca, approximately 45 miles (km) north of Bogota, killed nine miners working 2,000ft (600m) underground, with three managing to escape. See Full Story>
An opposition faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack involving several gunmen and a building collapse at a security post near the border of Afghanistan in the Bannu district of Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, which left 14 officers dead. See Full Story>
