MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — As only true champions do, Novak Djokovic assessed a tournament where he got within two sets of achieving a record 25th Grand Slam title as something to work on.In an Australian Open final where both men were chasing history, 22-year-old Carlos Alcaraz came back t...

He was the only one sitting when it was over, rubbing his eyes in disbelief.Bad Bunny had made history by winning album of the year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” the first time a Spanish-language album took home the Recording Academy’s top prize.Next stop: Super Bowl.While that emotional win f...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to 10 years in prison and her niece Tulip Siddiq, who is a British lawmaker, to four years in two cases involving a government township project near the capital.Judge Mohammed Rabiul Alam o...

ROME (AP) — Tourists hoping to get close to the Trevi Fountain had to pay 2 euros ($2.35) starting Monday as the city of Rome inaugurated a new fee structure to help raise money and control crowds at one of the world’s most celebrated waterworks.The first tourists to pass through the new tic...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan departed for the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka on Monday and awaited any sanction from the International Cricket Council for refusing to play India in the tournament.In video footage released by the Pakistan Cricket Board, the cricketers were dressed in their new World...

BEIJING (AP) — Beijing on Monday criticized the Dalai Lama ’s first Grammy win, describing the music industry award for an audiobook, narration and storytelling as “a tool for anti-China political manipulation.”The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, took the awar...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Koreans celebrated on Monday as the song “Golden” claimed K-pop’s first Grammy Award, a milestone that critics say highlights the genre’s global appeal and signals broader acceptance in the American mainstream.The Grammy win for “Golden” — from the Netflix ani...

LONDON (AP) — The year is 2016. Somehow it feels carefree, driven by internet culture. Everyone is wearing over-the-top makeup. At least, that’s how Maren Nævdal, 27, remembers it — and has seen it on her social feeds in recent days. For Njeri Allen, also 27, the year was defined by the arti...

STELLA, Wis. (AP) — Kristen Hanneman made a small decision in 2022 that would upend life for her entire town.State scientists were checking private drinking water wells across Wisconsin for a widely used family of harmful chemicals called PFAS. They mailed an offer to test the well outside h...

CAIRO (AP) — Palestinians in Gaza watched with hope and impatience on Sunday as preparations for the reopening of the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt, their vital connection to the world.Israel said the reopening of the crossing is scheduled for Monday as its ceasefire with Hamas pr...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — It might cost more to repair them than to buy new ones. But baby Jesus figurines have such sentimental value in families that every January an area in downtown Mexico City is full of people with the broken religious sculptures looking for a workshop for hands, legs, nose,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America. The yellow-billed bird with black button eyes, which can have an 8-foot (2.4-meter) wingspan and spen...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Peru’s ambassador to the Holy See publicly invited Pope Leo XIV to visit his second homeland on Saturday, as 2026 is shaping up to be an important year for the pontiff’s travel with big trips under study for Africa and South America.In recent days, the president of Equato...

With a scarf dangling from your coat pocket and those gloves left behind at the coffee shop, there are simply more things to lose in winter. That’s not counting your misplaced keys at home or those exasperated moments looking for your phone when you say, “I just had it!”Try not to beat yours...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Trevor Noah once again roamed through the audience during his monologue to open the Grammy Awards, taking pokes at the stars while standing right next to them, but he saved his most pointed jokes for absentees, and elicited an angry post from the president.“ Nicki Minaj is...

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, who were detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held at an ICE facility in Texas, were released following a judge’s order and returned to Minnesota on Sunday, according to Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.The boy and his dad, Adrian Conejo...

Cortisol, what is known as the stress hormone, is the talk of the internet.Wellness influencers warn about the various symptoms of chronically high cortisol: waking up at 3 a.m., swollen “cortisol face” and accumulating belly fat. And many offer diet and exercise routines that they claim wil...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Freezing temperatures and long-term power outages can quickly create dangerous health situations.Even at seemingly routine winter temperatures, the cold can exhaust the body and overwork the heart over time. The indoor risk of hypothermia and frostbite are especially a conce...

NEW YORK (AP) — Once considered an oddity in American homes, bidets are becoming increasingly common as more people seek a hygienic and sustainable alternative to toilet paper or a hand managing certain physical conditions. Toilet paper shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic helped demystify...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Sunday she plans to send humanitarian aid to Cuba this week, including food and other humanitarian aid.Sheinbaum’s comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump said he asked the Mexican leader to suspend oil shipments to th...

NEW YORK (AP) — Tax filing season is underway, and the IRS expects 164 million people will file returns by April 15. The average refund last year was $3,167. This year, analysts have projected it could be $1,000 higher, thanks to changes in tax law. More than 165 million individual income ta...

ATLANTA (AP) — There were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025, a historic low announced Friday by The Carter Center.The new mark comes barely a year after the death of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who often said he hoped to outlive the...

HONG KONG (AP) — Low-priced Chinese electric vehicles and cheap e-commerce goods are gaining ground in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico and local governments and industries are growing alarmed.Latin America plays a strategically important role for China as Beijing forges close...

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Gaza City – Maysera al-Kafarna, a Palestinian woman in Gaza, sorts through blue baby overalls brought for the child she was supposed to have.But her dreams of motherhood have been dashed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which ravaged the enclave’s healthcare system that saves lives, as well as the fertility centres that plan them...

Most people can relate to Elle Duncan’s decision to join Netflix.After nearly 10 years at ESPN, Duncan was looking for a new challenge that would show off her versatility as a broadcaster while also trying to find more of a work-life balance.Duncan believes that will happen by joining the st...

On TikTok, there’s no shortage of tips for identifying a narcissist.Look for “passive aggression,” one influencer suggested.A narcissist is someone who “creates emotional dependency,” another said.Being “extremely charming and charismatic — but kind of dead in the eyes,” one woman explained as she put on her makeup.Decades ago, the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Modest moves for Wall Street overall masked some big swings underneath the surface on Thursday, including for makers of weapons and other military equipment after President Donald Trump said he wants to increase spending on them sharply.The S&P 500 barely budged and inched u...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks hit records Friday following a mixed report on the U.S. job market, one that may delay another cut to interest rates by the Federal Reserve but does not slam the door on it. The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% and topped its prior all-time high set earlier in the week. The...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ticked to more records Monday after bouncing back from losses taken because of worries about the worsening feud between the White House and the Federal Reserve, one that experts warn could lead to higher inflation in the future.The S&P 500 tacked 0.2% onto its pri...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street pulled back from its records on Tuesday following a mixed start to the latest profit reporting season for big U.S. companies. The S&P 500 fell 0.2% from its all-time high set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 398 points, or 0.8%, from its ow...

NEW YORK (AP) — Losses for several banks and Big Tech stocks pulled indexes lower on Wednesday, even though the majority of stocks on Wall Street rose.The S&P 500 slipped 0.5% for its second straight loss after setting its all-time high. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 42 points, or...

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street steadied on Thursday as stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry bounced back following an encouraging report from a Taiwanese chip giant and as oil prices eased sharply.The S&P 500 rose 0.3% and snapped the two-day losing streak it had been on since setti...

NEW YORK (AP) — A surging stock market and a flurry of deal making padded the profits of Wall Street’s two big investment banks, which both saw a double-digit jump in profits in the fourth quarter.Goldman Sachs’s net earnings rose 12% from a year earlier, posting a profit of $4.62 billion, o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged a bit lower on Wall Street Friday as the first week of corporate earnings season ended with markets trading near record levels.The wobbly day for stocks closed out a week of similar movements for major indexes amid profit reports from banks and updates on inflati...

BANGKOK (AP) — European shares mostly fell and U.S. stock futures skidded Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap a 10% extra tariff on imports from eight European countries because they oppose having America take control of Greenland.Germany’s DAX lost 1.3% to close at 2...

The New York Stock Exchange is working on a digital platform that would enable investors to trade digital tokens around the clock.The platform would be separate from the NYSE itself, which operates only on weekdays, and allow for instant settlement of transactions, orders sized in dollar amo...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks slumped on Wall Street Tuesday after President Donald Trump threatened to hit eight European countries with new tariffs as tensions escalate over his attempts to assert American control over Greenland. The losses were widespread, with nearly every sector losing ground....

▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market bounced back from its worst day since October on Wednesday after President Donald Trump said he reached the framework for a deal about Greenland, an island he’s long c...

DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — Veteran actor T.K. Carter, who appeared in the horror film “The Thing” and “Punky Brewster” on television, has died at the age of 69.Carter was declared dead Friday evening after deputies responded to a call regarding an unresponsive male in Duarte, California, accordin...

The Golden Globes had some predictable stuff, like “One Battle After Another” and “Adolescence” cleaning up and host Nikki Glaser making fun of the age of Leonardo DiCaprio’s partners.But there were also some sweet moments, like when “Adolescence” star Erin Doherty, who played a child therap...

NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Cuomo is returning to SiriusXM, putting him on the air with morning and evening talk shows.He will host a two-hour weekday show centered on listener calls on the satellite radio company’s P.O.T.U.S. channel, starting Jan. 20 at 7 a.m. Eastern. Guests on his first few sh...

An audience of 8.7 million viewers watched the Golden Globes on Sunday, according to Nielsen, a decline of almost 7% from the year prior. Sunday’s telecast on CBS, hosted by Nikki Glaser, didn’t quite reach the viewership levels of the two previous Globes on CBS. In the network’s first year...

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

MILAN (AP) — Crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli will be among the headline performers for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Feb. 6, joining the previously announced pop diva Mariah Carey, organizers said Sunday.The opening ceremony will be centered in Milan’s landmark San Sir...

Ariana Grande, Teyana Taylor, Timothée Chalamet and a sea of other stars said goodbye to color at this year’s Golden Globes, opting instead for black. And many in the crowd stuck with tried and true old Hollywood glamour Sunday. But even in basic black, the red carpet had plenty of personal...

MILAN (AP) — Colman Domingo, Liam Hemsworth and Noah Schnapp were among the celebrities who packed the Ralph Lauren front row during Milan Fashion Week on Friday for the launch of a Milan-centric season that includes dressing Team USA for the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics.Domingo was fresh o...

MILAN (AP) — The Olympic spirit permeated Milan Fashion Week, closing Monday, from Canadian designers Dsquared2 cheeky tribute to the Games, Emporio Armani’s in-store parade of Team Italia’s uniforms and Ralph Lauren’s celebrity-packed runway show, strong on ski resort wear as it prepares to...

MILAN (AP) — Valentino Garavani, the jet-set Italian designer whose high-glamour gowns — often in his trademark shade of “Valentino red” — were fashion show staples for nearly half a century, died Monday. He was 93.“Valentino Garavani was not only a constant guide and inspiration for all of...

MILAN (AP) — Ricky Martin and Hudson Williams joined a star-studded front row Monday for the first Giorgio Armani menswear runway collection under the sole creative direction of Leo Dell’Orco following the iconic designer’s death in September. The collection previewed on the final day of Mil...

PARIS (AP) — Pharrell Williams opened a celebration year for Louis Vuitton’s monogram — marking the house’s 130th anniversary of its most recognizable signature — with a Fall-Winter 2026 men’s show that was equal parts brand pageant and movie set. Inside the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris...

PARIS (AP) — Valentino Garavani’s death cast a long shadow over the opening day of Paris Fashion Week menswear Tuesday, with front-row guests and industry figures mourning the passing of one of the last towering names of 20th-century couture — an Italian designer whose working life was close...

ROME (AP) — Rome was paying its last respects to the legendary Valentino on Wednesday at the start of a two-day public viewing for a fashion designer whose high-glamour gowns and trademark shade of red became an iconic symbol of Italian elegance.Valentino Garavani, who died aged 93 at his Ro...

PARIS (AP) — Dior ’s menswear show arrived with a stripped-back set and a loud signal of confidence: neon-yellow wigs that read like a flag of authority planted in the Paris runway, after a couple of runway wobbles from their new designer.In an annex of the Rodin Museum lined with curtain fa...

PARIS (AP) — Issey Miyake brought a monastic calm to Paris on Thursday, staging its IM Men show inside the medieval Collège des Bernardins and sending out sweeping, robe-like silhouettes that matched the venue’s stillness.Stone vaulting and filtered light gave the fall 2026 runway a spiritua...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pledge allegiance to her hands, her team, her vibes: Taylor Swift once again leads the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Award nominees with nine. She’s followed by Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Alex Warren, who are tied with eight each.The iHeartRadio Music Awards honor the most pla...

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sonia De Los Santos is the latest performer to cancel an appearance at the Kennedy Center in Washington. She had been scheduled to give two concerts for young people on Feb. 7, followed by a “creative conversation” with the audience. De Los...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Weir, the guitarist and singer who as an essential member of the Grateful Dead helped found the sound of the San Francisco counterculture of the 1960s and kept it alive through decades of endless tours and marathon jams, has died. He was 78. Weir’s death was announced...

A$AP Rocky’s first full-length album in eight years, “Don’t Be Dumb,” and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting again in Netflix’s “The Rip” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as sele...

NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy award-winning music producer Antonio “L.A.” Reid reached a settlement Monday with a former record company executive who alleged in a lawsuit that he sexually assaulted her and ruined her career.The terms of Reid’s settlement with Drew Dixon were not made public.Smiling...

NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Noah will be hosting the Grammy Awards for the sixth consecutive year, but this time, it’s being billed as a farewell gig. The Recording Academy announced Tuesday that the South African comedian is returning “one final time” for the Feb. 1 show, for which he will also...

NEW YORK (AP) — John Forté, the Grammy-nominated musician known for his work with the Fugees and the Refugee Camp All-Stars among others, has died at age 50. He was found dead Monday afternoon in his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, according to police. Chilmark Police Chief Sean Slavin said...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own surprise cultural exchange in a surprise jam session drumming to K-pop hits.The musical performance between Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ten years ago, Kim Gordon — a revolutionary force in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, the ’80s New York no wave scene and the space between art and noise — debuted solo music. At the time, she was already decades into a celebrated, mixed-medium creative career. The midt...

NEW YORK (AP) — The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. It’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024, which held the previous record.That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing be...

NEW YORK (AP) — After a nearly four-year musical hiatus, the K-pop giants BTS are back. Well, almost.On Thursday morning, the entertainment company BigHit Music shared on social media that the septet — RM, Jin, Jimin, V, Suga, Jung Kook and j-hope — will release a new album on March 20 title...

NEW YORK (AP) — In this world, it’s just him: Harry Styles has announced that his long-awaited, fourth studio album will arrive this spring.Titled “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” and out March 6, the album is Styles’ first full-length project in four years. It follows the 2022, crit...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Saturday at San Francisco’s Civic Center to celebrate the life of Bob Weir, the legendary guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead who died last week at age 78.Musicians Joan Baez and John Mayer spoke on a makeshift stage in front o...

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by...

After more than 40 guitar-shredding years, Megadeth is going out on their own thunderous terms.The Grammy-winning thrash metal pioneers’ self-titled 17th and final studio album, out Friday, quickly establishes that this is no sappy farewell. “Today, I may bleed, but tonight yo...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Duckwrth manifested a 2026 Grammy nomination for his album while in the recording studio. He just didn’t know it.The singer, songwriter and producer would pretend to press an imaginary Grammy button whenever he and his friends finished a new track.“It would be certain mome...

New York (AP) — Taylor Swift, Kiss’ Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Christopher “Tricky” Stewart, Alanis Morissette and Kenny Loggins make up the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees.Swift’s songwriting has undeniably shaped contemporary pop music trends — and she’ll no doubt bring extra a...

NEW YORK (AP) — Take it easy ... and go quadruple diamond. The Eagles’ 1976 album “Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” the bestselling album of all time in the U.S., has officially sold over 40 million units. That’s according to new certification from the Recording Industry Association of America...

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Styles is getting back out on the road. The English musician announced his “Together, Together” tour on Thursday. It’s a 50-date run made up of residencies in Europe, the U.K., Brazil, Mexico, the U.S. and Australia.Styles’ tour launches May 16 with six nights in Amster...

More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists.The new AI features announced Thursday...

The promise of artificial intelligence was front and center at this year’s CES gadget show. But spicing up a simple machine like a refrigerator with unnecessary AI was also a surefire way to win the “Worst in Show.” The annual contest that no tech company wants to win announced its decisions...

HONG KONG (AP) — DeepSeek, the Chinese tech startup that rivals OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has been gaining ground in many developing nations in a trend that could narrow the gap of artificial intelligence adoption with advanced economies, a new report suggested.In the Thursday report, researchers fr...

LONDON (AP) — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing non-paying users from generating or editing images after a global backlash erupted over sexualized deepfakes of people, but the change has not satisfied authorities in Europe. The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media p...

Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes. The parent company of Facebook on Friday announced agreements with TerraPower, Oklo and Vistra for nuclear power for its Prometheus AI d...

NEW YORK (AP) — Google said Sunday that it is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers to turn the Gemini app into a virtual merchant as well as an assistant.An instant checkout function will allow customers to mak...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, as concerns grow among global authorities that it is being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual ima...

Apple will rely on Google to help finish its efforts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology’s latest craze.The deal allowing Apple to tap into Google’s AI technology was...

Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Monday became the fourth Big Tech powerhouse to be valued at $4 trillion, a once seemingly unfathomable milestone that’s become more like a rite of passage amid an artificial intelligence arms race.Alphabet reached the threshold just four months after Google do...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developin...

It won’t be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing on local reservoirs. Microsoft is trying anyway.The software giant’...

BANGKOK (AP) — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok won’t be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X. The announcement late Wednesday followed a global backlash over sexualized images of women and children,...

HONG KONG (AP) — The United States and Taiwan reached a trade deal Thursday that cuts tariffs on Taiwanese goods in exchange for $250 billion in new investments in the U.S. tech industry.The deal is the latest President Donald Trump has struck — such as those with the European Union and Japa...

LONDON (AP) — Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary. The online crowdsourced encyclopedia revealed that it has signed up AI companies including Amazon, Meta Platforms, Perplexity, Microsoft and Fra...

NEW YORK (AP) — Elon Musk’s Grok keeps getting into trouble, and this time, more of the world’s governments are trying to intervene. First launched in 2023, Grok is Musk’s attempt to outdo rivals such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in building an AI assistant powered by a large lang...

LONDON (AP) — Laws that will make it illegal to create online sexual images of someone without their consent are coming into force soon in the U.K., officials said Thursday, following a global backlash over the use of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to make sexualized deepfa...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday tried to step up pressure on the operator of the nation’s largest electric grid to take urgent steps to boost power supplies and keep electricity bills from rising even higher.Administration officials sa...

OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren’t paying for a premium version of the chatbot.The artificial intelligence company said Friday it hasn’t yet rolled out ads but will start testing them in the coming weeks.It’s the latest effort by the San Francis...

NEW YORK wit (AP) — What sounds like President Donald Trump narrating a new Fannie Mae ad actually is an AI-cloned voice reading text, according to a disclaimer in the video.The voice in the ad, created with permission from the Trump administration, promises an “all new Fannie Mae” and calls...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump took center stage in his whirlwind visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, overshadowing the yearly gabfest among national leaders, executives and other elites in the Swiss Alpine snows.While some experts highlighted busines...

Kyiv, Ukraine – In late 2025, Ukraine was shaken by a major corruption scandal centred on the state energy sector, raising uncomfortable questions for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the country fights Russia’s invasion.The investigation – often referred to as Operation Midas and led by Ukraine’s anticorruption agencies, the Natio...

Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old British pro-Palestine activist, has ended a hunger and thirst strike in prison after his health deteriorated rapidly, with fears he was at high risk of a heart attack.Khalid, who is being held on pre-trial remand at the Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London, ended his protest on Monday, after being rushed to i...

Here is where things stand on Wednesday, January 28:Fighting At least four people were killed in a Russian drone attack on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram. Zelenskyy added that four people were still missing, and that two people were injured in the attack. In U...

Most European countries have either turned down their invitations to join United States President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for overseeing the reconstruction of Gaza – or politely suggested they are “considering” it, citing concerns.From within the European Union, only Hungary and Bulgaria have accepted. That is a better trac...

Madrid, Spain – After losing his left arm in a farming accident, Joel Caceda struggles to work delivering packages.His tough job is typical of many that migrants are forced to take when they arrive in Spain without any legal papers.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Trump suspends immigrant visas for 75 countries: Who’s...

A Russian air attack has killed two people in Kyiv region’s Bilohorodska community, and a drone attack killed another person in central Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, according to local authorities.The deadly attacks came overnight on Wednesday, just hours after a deadly drone attack on a commuter train in northeastern Ukraine’s...

Three British activists from the proscribed Palestine Action group are on hunger strike seeking bail and a fair trial, with friends and relatives warning they are close to death but determined to continue until their demands are met.Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed have refused food for 70 and 63 days respectively as part of a rolling...

Following the abduction of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro last week, the administration of US President Donald Trump has stated that it wants to quickly restore the country’s oil production and expand its mining sector.“You have steel, you have minerals, all the critical minerals, they have great mining history that’s gone ru...

The Trump administration has once again threatened to take control of Greenland either by acquiring it or through the use of military force to “deter our adversaries in the Arctic region.”Greenland, which is a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, already hosts the Pituffik Space Base, which the US operates in coordination with Dan...

After the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the United States on January 3, nearby countries that host large Venezuelan communities, including Colombia and Peru, have warned of a potential new influx of refugees if the country is destabilised.The Venezuelan diaspora remains one of the largest in the world with at...

Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office one year ago as the 47th president of the United States after campaigning again on his Make America Great Again slogan and picking up from where he left off during his first term.During the past 365 days, the Trump administration has implemented significant economic, diplomatic and social po...

The US has announced the Gaza ceasefire is moving to phase two, where “demilitarisation, technocratic governance, and reconstruction” will be the focus.Hamas leaders and representatives of other Palestinian factions in Gaza are in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks, but deep uncertainty remains regarding the next steps.Most of...

The internationally recognised government of Yemen, known as the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), says its forces have recaptured two strategic southern provinces, reversing a month-long takeover by the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC).In early December 2025, the STC, a UAE-backed secessionist force, seized the...

BANDUNG, Indonesia (AP) — Nineteen members of Indonesia’s elite marine force are among 42 people missing after being swept away or buried by a deadly weekend landslide that tore through a mountainside in West Java province, officials said Monday.The marines were training in rugged terrain an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he is increasing tariffs on South Korean goods because the country’s legislature has yet to approve the trade framework announced last year.Trump said on social media that import taxes would be raised on autos, lumber and pharmaceutical dr...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan will decide by next Monday whether to participate in the T20 World Cup after disagreeing with the International Cricket Council’s move to bring Scotland into the tournament in place of Bangladesh.The Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi, who met with prime m...

RAIPUR, India (AP) — Ishan Kishan and captain Suryakumar Yadav blasted half-centuries for India to beat New Zealand by seven wickets and lead their Twenty20 series 2-0 on Friday.Kishan smacked 76 off 32 balls with 11 boundaries and four sixes. Yadav top-scored with 82 not out off 37 balls, w...

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — A construction crane crashed onto a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand on Wednesday, triggering a derailment that killed at least 32 people and injured dozens more. The crash occurred in Nakhon Ratchasima, some 200 kilometers (135 miles) northe...

BANGKOK (AP) — A construction crane collapsed onto an elevated road near Bangkok, killing two people on Thursday, a day after another crane fell onto a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand and killed 32 people.The twin tragedies led Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to annou...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s construction industry is under intense scrutiny following a series of high-profile deadly accidents. These include a crane falling onto a moving passenger train this past week and the collapse of an office tower a year ago that killed nearly 100 workers.Public conce...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Monday held North Korea responsible for the human rights violations of four plaintiffs lured to the North by Pyongyang’s postwar false promise of living in “paradise on Earth,” ordering its government to pay them 22 million yen ($143,000) each, a decision wel...

The first time Patrick Thaw saw his University of Michigan friends together since sophomore year ended was bittersweet. They were starting a new semester in Ann Arbor, while he was FaceTiming in from Singapore, stranded half a world away.One day last June he was interviewing to renew his U.S...

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As a candidate, President Trump pledged to boost the stock market, bring back manufacturing jobs and improve other elements of the economy. A year after his return to office, his record is mixed.

With their sights set on an income-generating investment they could also live in, two Californians set out to buy a traditional home in the city of Atami.

Guinea-Bissau’s military government has set a date for new elections following the ousting of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a coup late last year, according to a statement by the army leader.“All the conditions for organising free, fair and transparent elections have been met,” said a decree read on Wednesday by Major-General H...

In December, as it often has during the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the British government urged accountability, expressing concerns about the mass-scale death and devastation that civilians have suffered.But reporting has shown that, behind the scenes, the United Kingdom rejected more...

The French navy has diverted an ‍oil tanker, suspected of being part of Russia’s sanctions-busting “shadow fleet”, ‍towards the port of Marseille-Fos for further investigation, according to reports.The office of the ​prosecutor in the southern French city of Marseille, which handles matters related to ‌maritime law and is investiga...

Rwanda has taken legal action against the United Kingdom’s refusal to disburse payments under a now-scrapped, controversial agreement for Kigali to receive deported asylum seekers, according to a Rwandan official and UK media reports.Rwanda launched arbitral proceedings against the UK through the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbi...

South Sudan’s army, following territorial losses in recent weeks, has announced a major military operation against opposition forces, raising fears for civilian safety.In a statement on Sunday, army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said Operation Enduring Peace would commence as he ordered civilians to evacuate three counties in Jonglei st...

A new Minnesota website lays out evidence to counter what officials have called federal misinformation after immigration agents fatally shot two residents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, deepening an unprecedented divide, experts said Monday. Minnesota also went to c...

US President Donald Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum (WEF), where the issue of Greenland will be front and centre.Trump’s long-running fixation on acquiring Greenland, an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark, has escalated into a transatlantic imbroglio, with threats...

The United States is expected to host a signing ceremony on Thursday for President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” (BoP) on the margins of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.Trump, who is to meet global leaders this week at the WEF, is pitching the board as the next phase of his administration’s 20-point peace pla...

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump said the US needs “ownership” of Greenland to defend itself from adversaries like China and Russia, but said he “won’t use force” to acquire the self-ruling island, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.Across the world, various natio...

United States President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he had reached a “framework of a future deal” on Greenland with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.He also withdrew his threat to impose 10 percent trade tariffs on eight European nations objecting to the sale of Greenland to the US – set to rise to 25 percent later in...

On Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump made clear to other world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, that he was unflinching in his demand to acquire Greenland, even as he said for the first time that he did not plan for the US to take the land by force.Trump, who talked up his tariff-based negotiation strategy, cited Greenl...

Former United States Special Counsel Jack Smith has defended his prosecution of President Donald Trump, rejecting Republican claims that the cases were politically motivated.Testifying before lawmakers at the House Judiciary Committee, Smith said the two federal cases, one over Trump’s handling of classified documents and the other...

Glittering towers lining the Mediterranean coastline, a “New Gaza” and “New Rafah” in the offing, with more than 100,000 housing units alongside orderly industrial parks – and even a new airport.All without consultation with the people this development is supposed to benefit.This is the skeleton of a “masterplan” for post-war Gaza,...

Family members have identified the man who was shot dead by United States federal agents during an immigration raid in the city of Minneapolis as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old American citizen. The shooting of Pretti on Saturday came as Minneapolis continues to mourn the death of another US citizen, Renee Good, who was killed...

The killing of a citizen of the United States by a federal agent during a demonstration in Minnesota’s Minneapolis city against Trump’s crackdown on immigrants has caused outrage and triggered more protests.US citizen Alex Pretti, 37, is the second person fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents this month.R...

The United States no longer views China as a top security priority, according to the Pentagon’s 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to focus on the Western Hemisphere in a break from a decade of foreign policy that saw Beijing as the biggest threat to US security and economic inter...

A United States aircraft carrier strike group is heading towards the Gulf as tensions build with Iran.The US military last staged a major build-up in the Middle East in June – days before striking three Iranian nuclear sites during Israel’s 12-day war with Tehran.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Why Qatar is betting on...

Fifteen years have passed since the Arab Spring protests erupted in Egypt.Inspired by the successful uprising in Tunisia just 11 days earlier, when demonstrators succeeded in bringing down the country’s president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the Egyptian people wanted freedom and their voices to be heard.For 18 days, millions took to...

Gregory Bovino, the senior Border Patrol commander who has been leading the federal immigration enforcement effort in Minneapolis, is being moved out of the city, according to reports quoting anonymous sources.His expected exit comes amid intense scrutiny of the federal crackdown, following two recent fatal shootings involving immi...

At the World Economic Forum last week in Davos, Switzerland, Jared Kushner, a real estate developer and son-in-law of United States President Donald Trump, unveiled a “master plan” for post-war Gaza during a presentation.The plan, which was contrived without any consultation with Palestinians in Gaza, promises to rebuild Gaza from...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia ’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints.One of the leaders is Abdikani Ali Mohamed, a teenage-faced colonel whose authorit...

PRETORIA (AP) — Dozens of people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in the South African capital Thursday to protest the U.S. intervention in Venezuela and the capture of former president Nicolas Maduro.The protests were led by members of the South African Communist Party, an ally of the Afri...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia’s government on Thursday denied an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized food aid earmarked for impoverished civilians.The U.S. State Department s...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland, waving Somali flags and chanting patriotic songs in a show of national unity.The protest on Thursday night took place at Taleh Square...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships launched a week of naval drills with host South Africa off the Cape Town coast Friday as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela and its move to seize tankers carrying Venezuelan oil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia as the federal government ramps up its immigration crackdown in the state, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Friday during a vi...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country through DNA testing.The couple was awarded citizenship in a private ceremony in the capital of Conakry on Friday. They are scheduled t...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of its poorest people.Not fa...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — President Yoweri Museveni and his political opponents in Uganda held their final rallies on Tuesday before an election that authorities will oversee with soldiers in the streets — deployments that have alarmed opposition figures who see signs of the authoritarianism th...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has thrust the breakaway territory into the international spotlight, causing an uproar in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East as a surprise new factor in regional power struggles. For Israel, the decision reignites questio...

Donald Trump’s administration said Tuesday it will end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Somalia, the latest move in the president’s mass deportation agenda. The move affects hundreds of people who are a small subset of immigrants living in the United States with TPS protections...

The Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it will spend a record $9 billion in 2026, maximizing its spending in key areas such as global health. At the same time it will begin reducing the number of staff positions it has by as much as 500 over five years. This announcement comes in the...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Flooding caused by weeks of torrential rains in northern South Africa forced the famed Kruger National Park to suspend visits and evacuate some guests and staff members by helicopter on Thursday. At least 19 people have died in other parts of the region since the rains be...

NKOMAZI, South Africa (AP) — Army helicopters rescued people stranded on rooftops and hundreds of tourists and workers were evacuated from one of the world’s biggest game reserves, as torrential rains and flooding in three countries in southern Africa killed more than 100 people, authorities...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa launched an investigation Friday over the participation of Iranian warships in naval drills off its coast after reports that organizers ignored the president’s instructions that the ships only take up observer status so as not to inflame tensions w...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa declared a national disaster Sunday over torrential rains and floods that have killed at least 30 people in the country’s north, damaged thousands of homes and washed away roads and bridges.The declaration was made by the head of the National Disas...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A truck and a school minibus were in collision in South Africa’s Gauteng province Monday, killing at least 13 children, authorities said.Preliminary reports indicated at least 11 schoolchildren died at the scene, with two others succumbing to their injuries in the hospita...

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — More than 300,000 people have been displaced by flooding in a province in Mozambique, its governor said Monday. Authorities had already announced that around 40% of the Gaza province has been submerged by floodwater following weeks of torrential rain in parts of sou...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The president of South Sudan has dismissed his interior minister, the wife of a detained opposition leader with whom he was running a unity government following a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war.President Salva Kiir on Monday evening removed Interior...

KADUNA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian police recognized that simultaneous church attacks occurred in northwestern Kaduna state over the weekend, after initially dismissing reports.“Subsequent verification from operational units and intelligence sources has confirmed that the incident did occur,” B...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Togolese authorities said Tuesday they have extradited Burkina Faso’s former leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba following a request by the military government there. The former junta leader has lived in Togo since his ouster in 2022. He is wanted in his country on suspic...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — There was the pregnant woman who missed her medical checkup, afraid to visit a clinic during the Trump administration’s sweeping Minnesotaimmigration crackdown. A nurse found her at home, already in labor and just about to give birth.There was the patient with kidney cance...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Gunmen attacked a village in western Niger over the weekend, leaving at least 31 people dead, student organizations and a resident said Tuesday. The attack took place Sunday in the commune of Gorouol in the Tillabéri region, according to a joint statement from the Union...

ZÁRATE, Argentina (AP) — The vast field of over 5,800 electric and hybrid vehicles gleamed on the cargo deck of the BYD Changzhou, an Chinese container vessel unloading Wednesday at a river port in eastern Argentina. In other places, such a scene would not be noteworthy. Chinese automaker BY...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Two teenage girls died Thursday of their injuries in this week’s school bus crash in South Africa ’s Gauteng province, raising the death toll to 14, authorities said, as the bus driver was charged with murder. The private minibus was transporting 16 students to various pr...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Torrential rains and severe flooding across parts of southern Africa have killed more than 100 people in three countries, destroyed thousands of homes and caused tens of millions of dollars’ worth of damage in one of Africa’s premier wildlife parks.Mozambique,...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — King Mohammed VI of Morocco is appealing for fraternity with African nations as rights groups warn of a rise of hate speech in the country following a chaotic final in the Africa Cup of Nations.Host Morocco was beaten 1-0 in extra time by Senegal in a game Sunday that s...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a bi...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A global crackdown on human traffickers and migrant smugglers coordinated by Interpol led to the arrest of more than 3,700 suspects and aided over 4,400 potential trafficking victims around the world, the law enforcement organization said Monday. Interpol said 14,000 of...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Refusing to let a tumultuous soccer game strain diplomatic and economic ties, Morocco and Senegal pledged Monday to give fresh momentum to their relationship and boost trade and investment between the two African nations.The prime ministers of Morocco and Senegal signed...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military said Monday it has broken a siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a key town in the central Kordofan region during the country’s civil war.In a statement, the military said it had opened a route leading to Dilling town in South Kordofan provi...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A group of Nigerian military officers will stand trial for allegedly plotting to overthrow the West African nation’s government, the Nigeria Defense Headquarters said Monday, citing findings from an investigative panel.At least 16 officers were arrested in October over...

SIAYA, Kenya (AP) — Rebecca Anyango stood outside the house she has called home for 26 years, wondering how long it will remain hers.As a widow, she’s been threatened with eviction for years by her late husband’s family, who claim she has no inheritance rights. This year they filed a lawsuit...

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — The southern African nation of Malawi began a cholera vaccination rollout this week in a bid to stem the threat of the disease that kills tens of thousands of people globally each year.Cholera is avoidable when there is access to clean water and largely treatable with...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — As floods ravage Mozambique, crocodiles are appearing in submerged towns and responsible for at least three deaths.In the town of Xai-Xai, the provincial capital of Gaza province and one of the worst-affected areas in the country’s south, authorities have warned resid...