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

The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian are chasing after Apollo 13’s maximum range from Earth. A total solar eclipse also awaits them as the moon blocks the sun, exposing snippets of shimmering corona.

A Turkish government-owned drilling ship is expected to arrive in Somali waters later this week.