Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez denied allegations Tuesday that she fired the island's secretary of justice amid claims that Vázquez mishandled aid for victims of ongoing earthquakes that have struck...
July 7, 2020
An Australian man says he was never happier to be stopped for speeding. The man was driving on a highway at 60 mph when suddenly he spotted a snake slithering...
July 7, 2020
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked a federal judge to undo an order she issued last month requiring the agency to give soap, cleaning supplies and masks to detainees...
July 7, 2020
A driver in Queensland, Australia, was stopped for speeding on the highway as he was fighting a venomous eastern brown snake, one of the most deadly, as it wrapped and...
July 7, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he tested positive for COVID-19 after downplaying the threat of the disease that has killed more than 65,000 in Latin America's biggest economy. Brazil...
July 7, 2020
After months of downplaying the severity of the virus, Jain Bolsonaro confirmed he tested positive for COVID-19. He said he was already taking hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug unproven against COVID-19....
July 7, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus' severity. Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask and speaking to...
July 7, 2020
Strong explosions were felt on Monday, July 6th in the surroundings of the La Púa Military Unit, in Velasco, Holguín. … Click to Continue »
July 7, 2020
A member of the Pussy Riot protest group has been charged with failing to properly notify Russian authorities about his Canadian citizenship, officials said Tuesday. The charges filed Tuesday came...
July 7, 2020
Former Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan was sentenced to 200 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty Tuesday at Leicester Magistrates' Court to assaulting his former fiancée. The case came a...
July 7, 2020
Whenever Venezuelan media mogul Raúl Gorrín flew to Miami — before he was accused by the feds of stealing billions from his own government — he would stay at his...
July 7, 2020
Iran suffered its deadliest day of the coronavirus outbreak, as the country's health minister said warnings about the spread of the disease had fallen on "deaf ears." Authorities reported on...
July 7, 2020
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for COVID-19 in an escalation of the health crisis that has engulfed Latin America's largest economy. "I'm perfectly well," Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil in...
July 7, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak even as it has ravaged his nation, said Tuesday that he has COVID-19. Confirming his diagnosis...
July 7, 2020
The world's oldest ocher mines were discovered flooded deep in a Mexico cave, scientists said. More than four miles of flooded passages in three cave systems in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula...
July 7, 2020
Japan's disaster management agency says the death toll from recent flooding has risen to 50 and at least a dozen others are still missing. Pounding rain since late Friday in...
July 6, 2020
Two loud explosions shook the surroundings of La Púa, a small town in Holguín in eastern Cuba, on Monday. The explosions seemed to have gone off at a military base...
July 6, 2020
More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air — a change that could alter some...
July 6, 2020
Israel said it successfully launched a new spy satellite into space on Monday as its leaders hinted it was behind a massive fire at an Iranian nuclear site last week...
July 6, 2020
Residents in Spain's northern city of Pamplona dressed up Monday in white clothes and traditional red scarves to mark what should have been the start of their annual San Fermín...
July 6, 2020
Frontman Tom Meighan has left British rockers Kasabian to deal with “personal issues,” the band said Monday. Kasabian said in a statement that Meighan “is stepping down from the band...
July 6, 2020
Tomas Kapler knew nothing about ventilators — he's an online business consultant, not an engineer or a medical technician. But when he saw that shortages of the vital machines had...
July 6, 2020
The Mona Lisa is back in business. Paris' Louvre Museum, which houses the world's most famous portrait, reopened Monday after a four-month coronavirus lockdown. Face masks are a must and...
July 6, 2020
Buchtar Tabuni steeled himself for the prospect of 17 years in prison, unaware that his future would be tied to protests over the fate of another dark-skinned man more than...
July 6, 2020
Donald Trump notoriously kicked off his presidential bid in 2015 by disparaging Mexican immigrants as drug dealers, criminals and "rapists," adding: "And some, I assume, are good people." During his...
July 6, 2020
The world is seeing a rise in diseases caused by viruses that have jumped from animal hosts to the human population, with COVID-19 just one example, a group of experts...
July 6, 2020
Tsinghua University law professor Xu Zhangrun, one of China's few remaining outspoken critics of Chinese President Xi Jinping and the communist government, was taken from his home in Beijing by...
July 6, 2020
Hong Kong asserted sweeping new police powers – from warrantless searches to demands to take down internet posts – as the territory revealed more about how it would implement a...
July 6, 2020
Opposition candidate Luis Abinader is set for a clear victory in presidential elections in the Dominican Republic after his two main challengers conceded defeat and most of the votes were...
July 6, 2020
Opposition candidate Luis Abinader is set for a clear victory in presidential elections in the Dominican Republic after his two main challengers conceded defeat and most of the votes were...
July 6, 2020
Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks such classic Hollywood gangster movies as...
July 6, 2020
Alaa Arnous and his family found the photo of his father Mohammed online last week, the first proof of his fate since he was seized by Syrian government forces seven...
July 5, 2020
Iran on Sunday confirmed that a damaged building at the underground Natanz nuclear site was a new centrifuge assembly center, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iranian officials had previously...
July 5, 2020
Police in Austria say they have detained a 47-year-old Russian man after a 43-year-old compatriot was shot dead near Vienna late Saturday in what Austrian media report is being considered...
July 5, 2020
Anti-racism groups are leading a “de-colonial tour” of Paris on Sunday to call attention to monuments and streets honoring historical figures tied to the slave trade or colonial-era abuses. The...
July 5, 2020
Dominicans will go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president in the first elections held in Latin America since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, but the...
July 5, 2020
At least 16 people were dead and 13 unaccounted for while rescuers were rushing to find survivors in southwestern Japan, where record-breaking torrential rains triggered landslides and flooding, local media...
July 5, 2020
At least 16 people were dead and 13 unaccounted for while rescuers were rushing to find survivors in southwestern Japan, where record-breaking torrential rains triggered landslides and flooding, local media...
July 5, 2020
The Philippines on Sunday reported a record of 2,434 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours as quarantine restrictions eased nearly four months since a lockdown was imposed. The...
July 5, 2020
The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects in Kenya in 70 years is far from over, and their newest generation...
