Three people were killed and 24 were injured Saturday after a bus rolled over during a glacier tour in Canada. The incident occurred around 1 p.m. local time near the...
July 19, 2020
A rocket carrying United Arab Emirates' Mars explorer "Hope" lifted off Monday morning in Japan, launching the Arab world's first interplanetary mission. The Emirates Mars Mission's Hope probe was launched...
July 19, 2020
Countries from the U.S. to South Africa to Australia were struggling to hold down rising rates of the coronavirus, as global deaths from COVID-19 surged past 600,000 in a sign...
July 18, 2020
Saying “we are at the breaking point,” the U.N. secretary-general made a sweeping call Saturday to end the global inequalities that sparked this year's massive anti-racism protests and have been...
July 18, 2020
South Africa was poised on Saturday to join the top five countries most affected by the coronavirus, while breathtaking numbers around the world were a reminder that a return to...
July 18, 2020
Protesters marched in a Paris suburb Saturday to mark the fourth anniversary of the death of a Black man in police custody whose case has mobilized broad anger against police...
July 18, 2020
French officials launched an arson inquiry Saturday after a fire broke out in the famed Gothic Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of the western French city of Nantes....
July 18, 2020
Iran's president on Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak's beginning, as he urged the public to take the...
July 18, 2020
Tens of thousands of people in the Russian Far East city of Khabarovsk took to the streets on Saturday, protesting the arrest of the region's governor on charges of involvement...
July 18, 2020
French prosecutors have launched an arson investigation following a major fire at a 15th century Gothic cathedral in the western city of Nantes on Saturday. The blaze spewed smoke from...
July 18, 2020
After more than six months, Iran handed over to Paris the flight recorders of the Ukraine International Airlines flight that was mistakenly shot down by Iranian forces for analysis. Analysis...
July 18, 2020
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against the way Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. In the evening, numerous people gathered in a Tel Aviv park...
July 18, 2020
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated on Saturday against the way Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. In the evening, numerous people gathered in a Tel Aviv park...
July 18, 2020
EU leaders ended a second day of heated discussions late Saturday without a deal under their belt on a shared economic stimulus package to recoup the damage caused by the...
July 18, 2020
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro berated social isolation measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus, saying they are destroying jobs and compounding pain for Latin America's largest economy. Bolsonaro,...
July 18, 2020
Britain will be "pausing" daily updates on its death toll from COVID-19 after researchers found statistical flaws in the calculations the British Press Association reported on Saturday. The government said...
July 18, 2020
Greece is commemorating one of the greatest naval battles in ancient history this year at Salamis, the claw-shaped island skirting the mainland near Athens. It's where the invading Persian navy...
July 17, 2020
Long lines form every morning in one of the Bolivian cities hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic as desperate people wait to buy small bottles of chlorine dioxide, a toxic...
July 17, 2020
A strange police investigation with possible ties to witchcraft is underway in Canada after lemons full of sewing needles were found by hiking trails around Port Coquitlam, about 25 miles...
July 17, 2020
As concerns mount that Haitian former paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant could become the latest accused torturer to walk free in Haiti, the U.S. government wants Haiti to know that...
July 17, 2020
Cuba is set to open government stores across the island beginning on Monday that will accept U.S. currency to purchase hygiene and food items, and will do away with a...
July 17, 2020
China isn't seeking to confront or replace the United States as the world's top technological power, but will fight back against “malicious slander" and attacks from Washington, a foreign ministry...
July 17, 2020
In the end, Sir Tom didn't need to rise. On a day infused with emotion, Queen Elizabeth II tapped the blade of a sword once owned by her father on...
July 17, 2020
The Vatican has indicated its support for a campaign to provide a proper Christian burial for hundreds of babies and toddlers by first exhuming their bodies from the grounds of...
July 17, 2020
The Taliban have put the son of the movement's feared founder in charge of their military wing and added several powerful figures to their negotiating team, Taliban officials said. The...
July 17, 2020
Rome's city council voted on Friday to rename one of its concert halls after Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, who died last week in the Italian capital. The Music Park Auditorium...
July 17, 2020
Princess Beatrice got married in a private ceremony Friday, with her grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, in attendance, Buckingham Palace said Friday. Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel...
July 17, 2020
One day after Brazil surpassed 2 million coronavirus cases, the World Health Organization said the outbreak has reached a plateau in the country. "The rise in Brazil is no longer...
July 17, 2020
Assa Traoré has been fighting for justice ever since her brother Adama died in the custody of French police on his 24th birthday four years ago. And she's determined to...
July 17, 2020
An influential American commentator has sent shock waves through the Jewish establishment and Washington policy-making circles by breaking a long-standing taboo: He has endorsed the idea of a democratic entity...
July 17, 2020
Dr. Murat Dilmener sometimes bent hospital rules in Istanbul to ensure patients without health insurance got the treatment they needed. He frequently saw poor Turks for free at his private...
July 17, 2020
Fresh coronavirus outbreaks, even in places as far flung as China's western Xinjiang region, are prompting worldwide moves to guard against the pandemic, as the number of confirmed cases globally...
July 17, 2020
From high up in the Himalayan valley of Kashmir to the seemingly endless sprawl of beaches in Kanyakumari, the virus despair has stretched across the large swathes of India, overwhelming...
July 17, 2020
A strong earthquake Friday shook inland Papua New Guinea. The nation's disaster management center said the epicenter was inland near Kokoda and very deep. Shaking was felt in the capital...
July 16, 2020
In the midst of a surge in coronavirus cases, Puerto Rico has reopened to in-bound tourism, and implemented a new airport protocol to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The new...
July 16, 2020
A thousand deaths a day. Since late May, three months after Brazil's first reported case of the coronavirus, it has recorded more than 1,000 daily deaths on average in a...
July 16, 2020
The Vatican told bishops around the world on Thursday they should report cases of clergy sex crimes to police even when not legally bound to do so, in its latest...
July 16, 2020
When Chile confirmed the first cases of COVID-19 in early March amid ongoing violent protests and social unrest over inequality, one of Latin America's fastest growing economies appeared to have...
July 16, 2020
A 25-year-old woman in Japan visited the hospital after experiencing throat pain and irritation typically caused by the seasonal flu. But doctors learned she wasn't alone — literally. One physical...
July 16, 2020
Britain, the United States and Canada accused Russia on Thursday of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a COVID-19 vaccine. The three nations alleged that hacking group APT29, also...
