Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A woman looks out from a changing room as she prepares to swim in the frozen Songhua river in Harbin in ...

The frigid swim was the culmination of a year of daily training. (AP Video shot by Caroline Chen and Olivia Zhang) Residents watch a woman jump into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua river ...

Russian mermaid performer Mariia Zelenina said she was attacked by a Chinese sturgeon at China’s Xishuangbanna Primitive ...

FUKUOKA--China won just a single gold medal at last year’s swimming world championships in Hungary. But on the second day of this year’s competition in Japan, the Chinese claimed two golds in ...

Residents prepare to swim in a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua river in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. Andy Wong/AP ...

Yu Xiaofeng leaps as she jumps into a pool carved from ice on the frozen Songhua river in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ...

As the EU faces opposing geopolitical forces at play, the former Lithuanian foreign minister says it is time to toughen up.