The effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz because of the Middle East war has squeezed energy supplies in imported oil-dependent Bangladesh, but images circulating online that purportedly show motorists sleeping in long lines at petrol stations are AI-generated. While filling stations in the South Asian nation have seen long lines, the circulating images contain numerous visual errors that are tell-tale signs of synthetic content.

A humpback whale stranded for days off Germany's Baltic coast has gotten stuck on another sandbank, a Greenpeace spokeswoman said on Saturday. The unlucky animal had garnered media attention for days, after it got stranded on a sandbank off Germany's Timmendorfer Strand resort, near the city of Lübeck, early on Monday.

Hawaiian stargazers got a particularly special treat recently.