The Chinese women's soccer team has won back-to-back games in the Olympic qualifying tournament after spending almost two weeks quarantined in an Australian hotel because of concerns over the coronavirus...
February 10, 2020
Two Russian children died in a collision of two speedboats off a Thai resort island Monday. The victims were a 12-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl. Twenty other passengers from...
February 10, 2020
The Australian Parliament is expected to pass a motion on Monday calling for Israel to immediately extradite a former school principal wanted on dozens of charges of child sex abuse....
February 10, 2020
Ruling party lawmakers have proposed legalizing marijuana in Nepal, where it has been used for generations and was famed during the counterculture '60s. Forty-six members of the ruling Communist Party...
February 10, 2020
Authorities in northern Thailand began releasing bodies to relatives Monday after security forces cornered and killed a soldier who carried out the country's worst mass shooting in an hourslong siege...
February 10, 2020
One of the men was hospitalized with kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another was nearly unrecognizable to his wife when he was wheeled into a courtroom. A third was...
February 10, 2020
One of the men was hospitalized with kidney failure and 11 broken ribs. Another was nearly unrecognizable to his wife when he was wheeled into a courtroom. A third was...
February 10, 2020
Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that a recent deluge in eastern parts of the country has...
February 10, 2020
Mainland China reported another rise in cases of the new virus Monday after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grew by 97 to 908, with...
February 10, 2020
Conservationists on a Sea Shepherd vessel out to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise came under gun fire in the upper Gulf of California over the weekend by men in small...
February 9, 2020
A former military policeman being investigated for his possible involvement in the 2018 murder of a Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and activist was killed by special forces Sunday in Brazil's...
February 9, 2020
An art critic has destroyed a contemporary piece at Mexico's premiere art fair, setting off a spirited debate about what constitutes art. Critic Avelina Lésper said she accidentally shattered the...
February 9, 2020
The U.S. ambassador to Israel has cautioned Israel against “unilateral action” in annexing West Bank settlements, warning that such a move could endanger the Trump administration's recently unveiled Mideast plan....
February 9, 2020
Sirirat Kualraksa blinked back tears as the ambulances delivered gurneys bearing cloth-shrouded bodies to the morgue of a public hospital on Sunday, hours after a vengeful Thai soldier killed 29...
February 9, 2020
The tiny rider sat — well, was tied — atop the towering steed that would carry him to victory in the annual llama races at Ecuador's Llanganates National Park. Wellington...
February 9, 2020
An Iranian rocket failed to put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, state television reported, the latest setback for a program the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile...
February 9, 2020
Manchester City's Premier League game against West Ham on Sunday was called off due to a storm battering northern Europe , as were matches in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands....
February 9, 2020
The Latest on a virus outbreak that began in China (all times local): 11:45 p.m. The acting head of U.S. Homeland Security says the U.S. is taking the necessary steps...
February 9, 2020
Thousands of people marched in Morocco's capital Sunday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan for the Mideast and to oppose what they see as the Moroccan government's lenient...
February 9, 2020
Syria's military vowed on Sunday to keep up its campaign to regain control of the whole country, days after capturing large chunks of territory from the last rebel holdout in...
February 9, 2020
Egyptian police arrested an activist and researcher who was a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government, the interior ministry and a human rights group said Sunday. Patrick George Zaki,...
February 9, 2020
Call them riders in the storm. While much of northern Europe hunkered down Sunday and hoped that Storm Ciara would blow over quickly with its hurricane-force winds, an intrepid band...
February 9, 2020
A soldier went on a shooting rampage in northeastern Thailand, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens more. Police and military personnel hunted the gunman overnight in a shopping...
February 9, 2020
Irish politicians are facing messy talks over the creation of a new government as an exit poll suggests that the parliamentary election ended in a dead heat between the country's...
February 9, 2020
Kenya police say four Chinese migrant workers have been arrested following a widely circulated video appearing to show one of them caning a Kenyan worker for arriving late at a...
February 9, 2020
Dozens of artists and activists gathered in India's capital on Sunday to demand an end to violence against women in a country where such crimes are rising despite tough laws...
February 9, 2020
Voters in Azerbaijan were choosing a new parliament Sunday in an early election after a short and low-key campaign. President Ilham Aliev, in power since 2003, called the election in...
February 9, 2020
Swiss voters are delivering their verdict Sunday on a measure that would make it illegal to discriminate against people because of their sexual orientation. Switzerland's parliament has approved the move...
February 9, 2020
Spain has confirmed its second case of the new virus from China and a plane evacuating more than 200 people from the Chinese city at the center of the epidemic...
February 9, 2020
A surge of violence in Cameroon's English-speaking regions threatens to derail the the West African nation's parliamentary election on Sunday, as militant separatists kidnap scores of candidates and warn civilians...
February 9, 2020
Pakistan's military said Sunday that an army helicopter rescued two mountain climbers, an American and a Finn, who were stranded on a peak in the country's north. The brief military...
February 9, 2020
At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have...
February 9, 2020
KABUL, Afghanistan – Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, a U.S. official said. In a statement, Col. Sonny Leggett,...
February 9, 2020
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus has risen to 811 in mainland China, the country's National Health Commission said Sunday. The death toll has therefore surpassed that of...
February 9, 2020
BANGKOK – A shooting spree by a Thai soldier ended early Sunday when police shot and killed the man in a shopping mall where he had holed up overnight after...
February 9, 2020
The Latest on a virus outbreak that began in China (all times local): 3:35 p.m. Hong Kong has lifted a quarantine on the World Dream cruise ship after clearing all...
February 9, 2020
Shops and businesses shut in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday and authorities imposed a lockdown in some parts of the disputed region's main city after separatists called for a strike to...
February 9, 2020
A Pakistani police official said Sunday that Indian soldiers fired at civilian areas along the highly militarized frontier in divided Kashmir, killing one civilian and wounding five others. Chaudhry Zulqarnain,...
February 9, 2020
For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as...
February 9, 2020
Torrential rain lashing Australia's east coast on Sunday has extinguished a major wildfire and caused widespread flash flooding. Rain put out the Currowan Fire south of Sydney late Saturday after...
