Thai officials said Thursday they approved the transfer back to Tehran of three Iranians who were involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot, as Iran released a 33-year-old Australian academic...
November 26, 2020
Thai officials said Thursday they approved the transfer back to Tehran of three Iranians who were involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot, as Iran released a 33-year-old Australian academic...
November 26, 2020
Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the “Hand of God” goal in 1986 and led his country to that year's World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine...
November 25, 2020
The Trump administration on Wednesday effectively killed a contentious proposed mine in Alaska, a gold and copper prospect envisioned to be nearly as deep as the Grand Canyon and could...
November 25, 2020
A judge has refused Johnny Depp permission to appeal against a British court's ruling that he assaulted ex-wife Amber Heard. Earlier this month a High Court judge rejected Depp's claim...
November 25, 2020
Iran on Wednesday freed a British-Australian academic who had been detained in the country for over two years, in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, state TV announced. The television...
November 25, 2020
A man caught Nov. 4 by South Korean security forces near the border says he escaped North Korea by vaulting over a 10-foot fence topped with barbed wire, officials say....
November 25, 2020
Iran has freed Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a British-Australian academic who has been detained in Iran for more than two years, in exchange for three Iranians held abroad, state TV reported Wednesday....
November 25, 2020
K-pop band BTS has earned its first Grammy nomination, a long-awaited feat for the South Korean act that has been reshaping the global pop landscape with record-breaking songs and well-mobilized...
November 25, 2020
A zoo in Denmark has figured out a way for Santa to greet children while staying safe from COVID-19 – by placing him in a giant snow globe. This footage,...
November 25, 2020
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, opened up in a New York Times op-ed about a miscarriage she suffered in July. Markle wrote the day started as an ordinary one,...
November 25, 2020
With domestic violence on the rise amid the coronavirus pandemic, activists are holding protests Wednesday from France to Turkey and world dignitaries are trying to find ways to protect millions...
November 25, 2020
The six migrants listen attentively to Mbaye Babacar Diouf, whose own journey across the Atlantic to a job nursing COVID-19 patients in Spain and giving back to the community through...
November 25, 2020
The Duchess of Sussex has revealed that she had a miscarriage in July. Meghan described the experience in an opinion piece in the New York Times on Wednesday. She wrote:...
November 25, 2020
Ethiopia's prime minister is rejecting a growing international consensus for dialogue and a halt to deadly fighting in the country's Tigray region as “interference,” saying his country will handle the...
November 25, 2020
Pakistan's Christian transgender people, often mocked, abused and bullied, say they have found peace and solace in a church of their own. Shunned by other churches, they can raise their...
November 24, 2020
At a shelter in this northern Honduran city, Lilian Gabriela Santos Sarmiento says back-to-back hurricanes that hit with devastating fury this month have overturned her life. Her home in what...
November 24, 2020
A book that looks at The Beatles from a playful kaleidoscope of angles won Britain's leading nonfiction literary award on Tuesday. Craig Brown's “One Two Three Four: The Beatles in...
November 24, 2020
Restorers at Paris' fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral have completed key preliminary work by successfully removing all the perilous roof scaffolding, officials said Tuesday. The removal of the 200 tons of...
November 24, 2020
Armando Pérez Roura, a powerful and controversial voice on Miami's Cuban radio stations for decades, died in Miami at 92. … Click to Continue »
November 24, 2020
Armando Pérez Roura, a powerful and controversial voice on Miami's Cuban radio stations for decades, died in Miami at 92. … Click to Continue »
November 24, 2020
Cambridge University launched an appeal Tuesday to find two valuable notebooks written by Charles Darwin after they were reported as stolen from the university's library. The notebooks, estimated to be...
November 24, 2020
Cambridge University launched an appeal Tuesday to find two valuable notebooks written by Charles Darwin after they were reported as stolen from the university's library. The notebooks, estimated to be...
November 24, 2020
A court in Berlin heard Tuesday how witnesses alerted police after seeing a man dump a wig, clothes and a bicycle in a river last year, allowing officers to swiftly...
November 24, 2020
An Egyptian celebrity has sparked an uproar after a photo of him with an Israeli pop star was posted online, prompting angry rants from newscasters and actor-singer Mohamed Ramadan's suspension...
November 24, 2020
The baby was born on the run from war. Her first bath was in a puddle. Now she cries all night in a country that is not her own. Wrapped...
November 24, 2020
Armando Pérez Roura, a powerful and controversial voice on Miami's Cuban radio stations for decades, died early Monday at Mercy Hospital from a heart attack. He was 92. Thousands of...
November 23, 2020
A sinkhole in Canada was oozing neon green water — but it was completely normal, reports said. A mysterious sinkhole appeared in Toronto last week, and it looked like it...
November 23, 2020
Mexico's Roman Catholic Church announced the cancellation Monday of what's considered the world's largest Catholic pilgrimage, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mexico's Episcopal Conference said...
November 23, 2020
Over the objections of Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Antony Blinken won the blessing of the Senate in 2014 as second-in-command at the Department of State under then-President Barack Obama....
November 23, 2020
Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and the media that spread their...
November 23, 2020
In a signal of rebirth, the Donizetti theater in the northern Italian city of Bergamo, devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, reopened this weekend after three years of renovations. But the...
November 23, 2020
When the eccentric rapper Kanye West made headlines last month claiming the president of Haiti had gifted him an island to which a Texan had already laid development claims, it...
November 23, 2020
Israeli media reported Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia for a clandestine meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which would mark the first known encounter...
November 23, 2020
Israeli media reported Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia for a clandestine meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which would mark the first known encounter...
November 23, 2020
Chinese authorities are testing millions of people, imposing lockdowns and shutting down schools after multiple locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered in three cities across the country last week. As...
November 22, 2020
Ethiopia's military is warning civilians in the besieged Tigray regional capital that there will be “no mercy” if they don't “save themselves” before a final offensive to flush out defiant...
November 22, 2020
A video went viral Sunday in Germany of a confrontation at a coronavirus protest, where a young woman compared herself to a famous Nazi resistance fighter and then was accused...
November 22, 2020
Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Sunday, as the country went to the polls for presidential and legislative elections marred by ongoing...
November 22, 2020
President Vladimir Putin says Russia is willing to work with whomever is officially declared the next president of the United States, but that he won't offer congratulations until the winner...
