A massive coral reef reaching more than 1,640 feet high has been discovered in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia — the first in 120 years, according to researchers. The...
October 27, 2020
Pope Francis' decision to forego wearing a mask has been noticed, with some concern, by the commission of Vatican experts he appointed to help chart the Catholic Church's path through...
October 27, 2020
Italy braced Tuesday for more protests in cities nationwide against virus-fighting measures like regional curfews, evening shutdowns for restaurants and bars and the closures of gyms, pools and theaters —...
October 27, 2020
Kanye West, the eccentric rapper and producer who jetted off to Haiti in the middle of a global pandemic last month, is claiming that the president of Haiti gave him...
October 27, 2020
The long-running royal scandal that has riveted Belgium and damaged those involved reached a new milestone when former King Albert II reunited with the daughter he fathered out of wedlock...
October 27, 2020
Storm-weary Louisiana was once again under a hurricane warning again on Tuesday as Zeta swirled across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on a path that could hit New Orleans Wednesday night. Zeta,...
October 27, 2020
A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven students and wounding 112...
October 27, 2020
Vietnam scrambled Tuesday to evacuate more than a million people in its central lowlands as a strong typhoon approached while some regions are still dealing with the aftermath of recent...
October 27, 2020
Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday while whipping the resorts around...
October 27, 2020
Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday while whipping the resorts around...
October 27, 2020
Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday while whipping the resorts around...
October 27, 2020
Hurricane Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, closed in on the Caribbean coast of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain...
October 27, 2020
In the final weeks before Election Day, Colombian politicians have popped up in South Florida politics, offering messages of support on social media for Republican candidates like President Donald Trump...
October 26, 2020
Zeta strengthened to a hurricane Monday afternoon as it continued on a track for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula resorts and then likely move on for a possible landfall on the central...
October 26, 2020
Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus on Monday began a strike to demand that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko resign after more than two months of continuing mass protests...
October 26, 2020
Britain's Prince Harry says it took him many years and the experience of living with his wife, the former Meghan Markle, to understand how his privileged upbringing shielded him from...
October 26, 2020
A strong typhoon blew out of the Philippines on Monday after displacing more than 120,000 people, leaving several fishermen missing and causing at least six vessels to sink or run...
October 26, 2020
A strengthening Tropical Storm Zeta was expected to become a hurricane Monday on a track for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula resorts and then likely move on for a possible landfall on...
October 26, 2020
Nick Gutiérrez, president of the National Association of Cuban Landowners in Exile, said the owners in exile are not looking to kick Cubans out of their homes in the island,...
October 26, 2020
Concepción Beltrán's family was never notified that their farms – mostly sugarcane and tobacco fields – had been nationalized by the revolutionary government in 1959. The lands had been in...
October 26, 2020
When he took power in 1959, Fidel Castro denied he was a communist, but he soon began the most ambitious nationalization process in Latin American history. In just nine years,...
October 26, 2020
A Syrian opposition spokesman and a war monitor say an airstrike on a training camp in the last rebel enclave in northwestern Syria has killed over 50 fighters. Youssef Hammoud,...
October 26, 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of violating the new cease-fire announced the day before in a bid to halt the fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh...
October 26, 2020
While most music stars are rescheduling tour dates to 2021, Harry Styles is looking farther ahead and making plans to headline his own arena — one he's putting his money...
October 26, 2020
Thailand's Parliament began a special session Monday that was called to address tensions as pro-democracy protests draw students and other demonstrators into the streets almost daily demanding the prime minister's...
October 26, 2020
A fast-moving typhoon forced thousands of villagers to flee to safety in provinces south of the Philippine capital Monday, flooding rural villages and ripping off roofs, officials said. There were...
October 26, 2020
Thailand's Parliament began a special session Monday that was called to address tensions as pro-democracy protests draw students and other demonstrators into the streets almost daily demanding the prime minister's...
October 25, 2020
Andrew Scott and Ian McKellen were among acting winners as Britain's Laurence Olivier Awards celebrated the best of the London stage in bittersweet fashion Sunday night — most U.K. theaters...
October 25, 2020
A group of pro-Azerbaijani protesters gathered near the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami on Sunday afternoon, decrying what they say is aggression from Armenians over escalating tensions between the two...
October 25, 2020
Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a...
October 25, 2020
After 11 p.m., Milan is a ghost town. The piazzas are empty, the streets dark and quiet. The silence is broken by the occasional rumble of a bus, streetcar or...
October 25, 2020
A 59-year-old man spearfishing near the Great Barrier Reef in Australia suffered “catastrophic” injuries Sunday in a shark attack, officials say. Paramedics airlifted the man from Britomart Reef to a...
October 25, 2020
Tropical Depression No. 28 became Tropical Storm Zeta early Sunday morning, as predicted, making the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season the fastest to get to 27 named storms. The 2005 season...
October 25, 2020
Women's rights activists in Poland staged protests during Sunday church services in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation against a tightening of the nation's already restrictive abortion law. In the fourth...
October 25, 2020
Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red cap. In a surprise...
October 25, 2020
Pro-democracy protesters in Thailand gathered again Sunday in Bangkok, seeking to keep up pressure on the government a day ahead of a special session of Parliament called to try to...
October 25, 2020
Pro-democracy protesters in Thailand gathered again Sunday in Bangkok, seeking to keep up pressure on the government a day ahead of a special session of Parliament called to try to...
October 25, 2020
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a Cabinet meeting Sunday to prepare a new state of emergency to stem surging coronavirus infections, a move that could impose curfews and other...
October 25, 2020
The United Nations announced Saturday that 50 countries have ratified a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons triggering its entry into force in 90 days, a move hailed by anti-nuclear...
October 25, 2020
Afghanistan claimed Sunday it killed a top al-Qaida propagandist on an FBI most-wanted list during an operation in the country's east, showing the militant group's continued presence there as U.S....
