A drone has been converted into a flying flamethrower in central China in a fiery campaign to eradicate more than 100 wasp nests. Blue Sky Rescue, a volunteer group that...
December 12, 2020
World leaders are staging a virtual gathering Saturday to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris climate accord, which set a goal for keeping global temperatures from rising above levels...
December 12, 2020
The Arecibo Observatory was born in the mid-20th century from a confluence of earthly and celestial forces: William E. Gordon, the scientist who devised the massive radio telescope, wanted to...
December 12, 2020
Days after Puerto Rico surpassed more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths, Gov. Wanda Vázquez, citing the increased cases and hospitalizations on the island, delivered some sobering news to those looking forward...
December 12, 2020
Britain's Prince William and his family attended a Christmas show in London on Friday night, where he paid tribute to medical staff and other frontline workers for their efforts during...
December 12, 2020
Italy could soon reclaim a record that nobody wants — the most coronavirus deaths in Europe — after the health care system again failed to protect the elderly and the...
December 12, 2020
Italy could soon reclaim a record that nobody wants — the most coronavirus deaths in Europe — after the health care system again failed to protect the elderly and the...
December 12, 2020
Italy could soon reclaim a record that nobody wants — the most coronavirus deaths in Europe — after the health care system again failed to protect the elderly and the...
December 12, 2020
The only thing the survivors can agree on is that hundreds of people were slaughtered in a single Ethiopian town. Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in...
December 11, 2020
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said Friday that a preliminary probe has found “a reasonable basis at this time to believe” that crimes against humanity and war crimes have been...
December 11, 2020
The House and Senate are negotiating a proposed change to the allocation of employment-based visas for high-skilled immigrants that could win approval this month, leading to longer wait times for...
December 11, 2020
After postponing the decision for several years, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel announced on Thursday night the expected monetary unification between the island's two currencies will begin in January. The Cuban...
December 11, 2020
Calls grew Friday for tougher lockdown measures soon in Germany as the country's disease control center reported record daily increases in both coronavirus cases and deaths. The Robert Koch Institute...
December 11, 2020
Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group on Friday criticized charges filed by a prosecutor against the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers over the massive explosion in Beirut's port, describing it...
December 11, 2020
Fans of an Israeli soccer club long associated with anti-Arab racism gathered Friday in a show of support for an Emirati businessman's purchase of a stake in the organization, welcoming...
December 11, 2020
Lawmakers in Argentina's lower house on Friday passed a bill that would legalize abortion in most cases, responding to long-sought demands from women's rights activists. The bill, which needs approval...
December 11, 2020
Lawmakers in Argentina's lower house on Friday passed a bill that would legalize abortion in most cases, responding to long-sought demands from women's rights activists. The bill, which needs approval...
December 11, 2020
International aid groups say at least four staff members have been killed in the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The Danish Refugee Council says its three staffers killed last month...
December 11, 2020
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc's net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels,...
December 11, 2020
During their daily morning round of the intensive care unit, hospital staffers and medical students pause outside room No. 10, abruptly emptied of the patient who lost his nearly month-long...
December 11, 2020
European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding...
December 11, 2020
Cuban leaders Miguel Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro announced the country will begin currency unification on Jan. 1, 2021. … Click to Continue »
December 11, 2020
Two former high-ranking government officials in Haitian President Jovenel Moïse's administration and an ex-cop turned influential gang leader have been sanctioned by the Trump administration for their involvement in a...
December 10, 2020
Cuba has announced it will open its centralized Soviet-style economy to foreign investments with Cuban minority participation, a key change because, until now, Cuba has insisted on keeping a majority...
December 10, 2020
A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million euros (dollars) that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf's airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said...
December 10, 2020
A surrealist painting worth more than a quarter million euros (dollars) that was forgotten by a businessman at Duesseldorf's airport has been recovered from a nearby recycling dumpster, police said...
December 10, 2020
To tell the troubling story of the Netherlands' deep historical links to the slave trade, the country's national museum is making it personal. The Rijksmuseum will open a major exhibition...
December 10, 2020
A military parade was held Thursday in the Azerbaijani capital in celebration of the peace deal with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh that saw Azerbaijan reclaim much of the separatist region along...
December 10, 2020
South Africa is seeing a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases and bracing for increased hospitalizations and deaths, said the country's health minister Zweli Mkhize. "It is important for us to...
December 10, 2020
The Lebanese prosecutor probing last summer's port explosion in Beirut filed charges on Thursday against the caretaker prime minister and three former ministers, Lebanon's official news agency said. Judge Fadi...
December 10, 2020
Ghassan Hasrouty spent most of his life working at the silos in Beirut's port, unloading grain shipments to feed the country even as fighting raged around him during the 1975-90...
December 10, 2020
India is facing two public health emergencies simultaneously: critically polluted air and the pandemic. And Surinder Singh, a bus driver in the capital New Delhi, is trapped between them both....
December 10, 2020
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed,” leaving poor people around the globe watching preparations for inoculations against the coronavirus in some rich nations...
December 10, 2020
Following the publication of a report by the National Academies of Sciences concluding that directed microwave energy may have harmed U.S. officials in Cuba and China, Republican senators Marco Rubio...
December 9, 2020
With Canada becoming the third country after Britain and Bahrain to grant emergency approval for use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, there is still no roll out date on when...
December 9, 2020
Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Tindall is pregnant with her third child, her husband announced Wednesday. Former rugby star Mike Tindall, who has two daughters with Zara — 6-year-old Mia and...
December 9, 2020
Canada's health regulator on Wednesday approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, days ahead of possible approval in the United States. Health Canada posted on it is website that the vaccine made by...
December 9, 2020
Thousands of Cubans have started to join other migrants in caravans heading for the U.S. southern border to apply for political asylum, Cubans in Latin America have told el Nuevo...
December 9, 2020
South Korea has reported 686 new cases of the coronavirus, tying its second-highest daily jump since the emergence of the pandemic, as a resurgence driven by the greater capital area...
