Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected allegations that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of his top political foe, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and accused U.S. intelligence agencies of...
December 17, 2020
It was late Friday night when Usama Aminu heard gunshots, at first thinking they had come from the nearby town. As soon as he and the other students at the...
December 17, 2020
Russia will find out Thursday if its name, flag and anthem will be banned from the next two Olympics and all world championships for up to four years because of...
December 17, 2020
Russia will find out Thursday if its name, flag and anthem will be banned from the next two Olympics and all world championships for up to four years because of...
December 17, 2020
Russia will find out Thursday if its name, flag and anthem will be banned from the next two Olympics and all world championships for up to four years because of...
December 17, 2020
The European Union's top court ruled on Thursday that Volkswagen breached the law by installing on its cars a so-called defeat device to cheat on emission tests and cannot argue...
December 17, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced on Thursday. It said the president took a test “as soon as the first symptoms appeared.”...
December 17, 2020
Quarrel, rape, adultery. Tricky, greedy, sycophantic. Chinese singer Tan Weiwei chants each word methodically in a two-line string of vulgarities and insults. The 16 words in her new song share...
December 17, 2020
The World Health Organization said Thursday that countries in the Asia-Pacific region are not guaranteed to have early access to COVID-19 shots and urged them to adopt a long-term approach...
December 16, 2020
Anger, fear and exhaustion. Anxiety has overwhelmed many parents in Nigeria's northern Kankara village who await word on their sons who are among the more than 330 kidnapped by extremists...
December 16, 2020
BERLIN — A record number of deaths was reported in Germany on Wednesday due to the coronavirus as the country entered a nationwide lockdown in a bid to break a...
December 16, 2020
Tom Cruise has launched an expletive-laden rant at colleagues on the set of his latest "Mission: Impossible" movie, after he reportedly spotted two workers failing to respect social distancing rules....
December 16, 2020
Some people see a waterfall and are reminded of nature's beauty, while others see one and immediately want to plunge off of it. That's what a pair of kayakers in...
December 16, 2020
SINGAPORE – During the height of Hong Kong's protests last year, Pastor Roy Chan led a ragtag crew of middle-age and elderly church volunteers who would turn-up at pro-democracy demonstrations...
December 16, 2020
Dr. Paul Farmer, the acclaimed doctor and anthropologist who has devoted nearly four decades to fighting deadly epidemics and delivering health care to millions throughout the world, especially in Haiti...
December 16, 2020
The ruling on whether Russia can keep its name and flag for the Olympics will be announced on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday that three of...
December 16, 2020
Berlin police raided homes and jewelry shops Wednesday on suspicion they could be connected to efforts to fence a massive 100-kilogram (220-pound) Canadian gold coin — piece by piece —...
December 16, 2020
Former Belarus presidential candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya urged the European Union to step up its support for embattled democracy protesters in her country, as she picked up the EU's top human...
December 16, 2020
A Dutch court on Wednesday rejected a restitution case brought by heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned a painting by Wassily Kandinsky that was bought by the city...
December 16, 2020
In Haiti, they are acting like COVID-19 doesn't exist. Mask-wearing is an exception and not the norm; bands are playing to sold-out crowds; and Kanaval, the three-day pre-Lenten debauchery-encouraging street...
December 16, 2020
The terrorism trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 Paris attacks on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket ends Wednesday after three months punctuated by...
December 16, 2020
When Andrew Lincoln steps onstage at London's Old Vic Theatre as Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol,” he looks out on an empty auditorium. The spectators are beyond the theater...
December 16, 2020
After living in a camp for three years, 70-year-old Merhi Hamed Abdullah returned to his village west of the city of Mosul to find it in ruins — his first...
December 16, 2020
Workers have returned to factories, students are back in the classroom and once again long lines form outside popular hot pot restaurants. In major cities, wearing a surgical mask —...
December 16, 2020
New Zealand this year pulled off a moonshot that remains the envy of most other nations: It eliminated the coronavirus. But the goal was driven as much by fear as...
December 15, 2020
Rescuers who found a man clinging to a log in a raging, icy river between two waterfalls on Vancouver Island knew they had to work fast Saturday. “We know that...
December 15, 2020
Rescuers who found a man clinging to a log in a raging, icy river between two waterfalls on Vancouver Island knew they had to work fast Saturday. “We know that...
December 15, 2020
The founder of the world-famous Just for Laughs comedy festival has been found not guilty on charges of rape and indecent assault. The accusations against Gilbert Rozon stemmed from a...
December 15, 2020
A respiratory therapist was the first in Puerto Rico to get the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday following the delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech supplies to the island. Yahaira Alicea, who works...
December 15, 2020
A respiratory therapist was the first in Puerto Rico to get the coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday following the delivery of the Pfizer-BioNTech supplies to the island. Yahaira Alicea, who works...
December 15, 2020
Rebels from the Boko Haram extremist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for abducting hundreds of boys from a school in Nigeria's northern Katsina State last week in one of the largest...
December 15, 2020
Pressure is building in Europe for quick approval of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's Covid-19 vaccine, with German authorities saying they're optimistic that sign-off can be pushed forward by a...
December 15, 2020
Pressure is building in Europe for quick approval of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's Covid-19 vaccine, with German authorities saying they're optimistic that sign-off can be pushed forward by a...
December 15, 2020
Pressure is building in Europe for quick approval of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's Covid-19 vaccine, with German authorities saying they're optimistic that sign-off can be pushed forward by a...
December 15, 2020
Pressure is building in Europe for quick approval of Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's Covid-19 vaccine, with German authorities saying they're optimistic that sign-off can be pushed forward by a...
December 15, 2020
A respiratory therapist who treated the first two COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Puerto Rico became the first person in the U.S. territory to be vaccinated against the virus on Tuesday....
December 15, 2020
A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for killing and dismembering nine people, most of whom had posted suicidal thoughts on social media, in a case that...
December 15, 2020
One-and-a-half-meter-society has been voted the Dutch word of the year by a (social) distance. Anderhalvemetersamenleving, a compound noun describing life under the Dutch government's 1.5-meter (5-foot) social distancing requirement, was...
December 15, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the U.S. presidential election after weeks of holding out. Putin's message to Biden came a day after the Electoral...
December 15, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the U.S. presidential election after weeks of holding out. Putin's message to Biden came a day after the Electoral...
