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Updated: Jul. 15, 2020 at 8:47 AM EDT
A squirrel in metropolitan Denver has tested positive for bubonic plague, and on the other side of the world, a human died from the disease that ravaged humankind a few centuries ago.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 5:39 AM EDT
|By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
The World Health Organization reported late Sunday the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press
Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark’s longest closure since World War II.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 3:40 AM EDT
An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail Monday in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2020 at 2:39 AM EDT
Multiple witnesses described the dog as a pit bull, but police could not confirm the breed.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 2:19 AM EDT
|By NICK PERRY Associated Press
Experts say a number of factors have helped New Zealand wipe out the disease, including its isolated location in the South Pacific that gave it vital time to see the devastating spread of the virus in other countries.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2020 at 6:00 PM EDT
Officials at the World Health Organization said Monday that of about 80,000 people who have been sickened by COVID-19 in China, more than 70% have recovered and been discharged from hospitals.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2019 at 6:28 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
The court has made its decision regarding the fate of men who killed Jamal Khashoggi.
Updated: Dec. 20, 2019 at 5:12 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
Christmas won't be coming to Notre Dame Cathedral this season.
Updated: Dec. 9, 2019 at 5:57 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
The Russian flag and national anthem have been banned.
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Updated: Nov. 6, 2019 at 7:53 AM EST
Criminal investigators in northern Mexico say a suspect has been arrested and is under investigation for possible connections with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 4:09 AM EDT
|By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press
A fire early Thursday burned down structures at Shuri Castle on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, nearly destroying the UNESCO World Heritage site.
Updated: Oct. 31, 2019 at 2:42 AM EDT
|By ASIM TANVEER Associated Press
A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train’s brakes.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2019 at 4:35 AM EDT
|By NINIEK KARMINI and MARGIE MASON Associated Press
Indonesian investigators found plenty of blame to go around for a Boeing 737 Max crash that killed 189 people a year ago.
Updated: Oct. 19, 2019 at 4:08 AM EDT
|By JILL LAWLESS and RAF CASERT Associated Press
Prime Minister Boris Johnson grudgingly asked the European Union late Saturday to delay Brexit after the British Parliament postponed a decision on whether to back his divorce deal.
Updated: Oct. 18, 2019 at 1:52 AM EDT
Terrifying moments were caught on camera in Argentina.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2019 at 1:38 AM EDT
|By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press
Among the reported deaths were those whose homes were buried in landslides. Other fatalities included people who got swept away by raging rivers.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 6:03 AM EDT
|By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the U.S. will send fighter jets and additional air defenses to the Saudis to help defend the kingdom against Iran amid the heightened tensions.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 5:19 AM EDT
|By MARK LEWIS and ELIAS MESERET Associated Press
The 2019 Nobel Peace has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2019 at 2:43 AM EDT
|By MEHMET GUZEL and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
No U.S. troops were hurt in Friday's explosion at the small U.S. outpost, and the artillery strike marked the first time a coalition base was in the line of fire since Turkey's offensive began.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2019 at 11:05 PM EDT
|By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
North Korea said Thursday it has carried out its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in three years, in an apparent bid to dial up pressure on the United States ahead of a weekend resumption of their nuclear diplomacy.
Updated: Sep. 27, 2019 at 2:46 AM EDT
|By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press
A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2019 at 2:11 AM EDT
|By EDITH M. LEDERER and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
Fallout from the Sept. 14 attacks is still reverberating as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly.
Updated: Sep. 18, 2019 at 8:44 PM EDT
|By ROB GILLIES Associated Press
Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign for national elections was hit Wednesday by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a costume party in 2001.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2019 at 5:24 AM EDT
|By RENATA BRITO Associated Press
A charity rescue ship with 82 migrants aboard said Saturday it has received permission to sail to a tiny southern Italian island, in a possible sign Italy's hard line against such vessels might be easing somewhat under the new government.
Updated: Sep. 13, 2019 at 4:00 AM EDT
|By NANNAPAT PUROD Associated Press
Pope Francis will visit Thailand and Japan in November in a visit expected to highlight his call for complete nuclear disarmament and honor the small Catholic communities in each country.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2019 at 8:33 PM EDT
|By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press
In a session that ran past midnight, Parliament enacted a law to block a no-deal Brexit next month, ordered the government to release private communications about its Brexit plans and rejected Johnson's call for a snap election to break the political deadlock.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2019 at 6:46 AM EDT
Pope Francis says he was stuck for 25 minutes in a Vatican elevator and had to be rescued by firefighters.
Updated: Aug. 2, 2019 at 8:45 PM EDT
North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country's ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2019 at 3:39 PM EDT
Egan Bernal has become the first Colombian to win the Tour de France as the three-week race ended with the 21st and final stage on the Champs-Elysees.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2019 at 5:09 PM EDT
|By ROB GILLIES and IAN HARRISON Associated Press
Gunfire broke out and a stampede ensued as fans celebrated at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Raptors, leaving four people shot and thousands fleeing less than a block from where the players and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat on stage.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2019 at 8:07 PM EDT
|By CBS News
Another American tourist died this week at a resort in the Dominican Republic. Leyla Cox, 53, came to the island on June 5 to celebrate her birthday.
Updated: Jun. 5, 2019 at 10:27 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Police in the Dominican Republic are investigating an attack on a U.S. tourist in Punta Cana.
Updated: May. 10, 2019 at 3:27 PM EDT
Meghan was the fastest rising girl's name for 2018, moving from number 1,404 in 2017 to 703.
Updated: May. 8, 2019 at 8:08 AM EDT
|By CBS
We have a first glimpse of the new royal baby!
Updated: Apr. 25, 2019 at 12:10 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
Prince Harry has attended a service commemorating war dead from Australia and New Zealand as he and his wife Meghan await the birth of their first child.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2019 at 11:55 AM EDT
|By Staff
Monday marks the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Updated: Apr. 5, 2019 at 8:21 PM EDT
|By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press
It marks the first sweep of arrests to target individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October.
Updated: Apr. 3, 2019 at 5:28 AM EDT
|By CNN
A legendary Paris museum is giving you the chance for the sleepover of a lifetime.
Updated: Mar. 26, 2019 at 3:26 PM EDT
|By The Associated Press
One of Germany's richest families, whose company owns a controlling interest in Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Pret a Manger and other well-known businesses, plans to donate millions to charity after learning about their ancestors' enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler and use of forced laborers under the Nazis, according to a report Sunday.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2019 at 9:10 AM EDT
|By The Associated Press
An infant boy in Italy has died as the result of a circumcision performed by his parents at home, according to Italian media reports on Sunday.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2019 at 3:56 AM EDT
|By Philip Issa
Elimination of the last IS stronghold in Baghouz marks the end of the militants' self-declared caliphate, which at its height blanketed large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2019 at 6:18 AM EDT
|By Nick Perry and Juliet Williams
Hundreds of Muslim men at the park sat in socks or bare feet. One man in the front row was in a Christchurch Hospital wheelchair.
Updated: Mar. 10, 2019 at 8:56 PM EDT
|By Associated Press
All 157 people on the plane were killed.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 10:15 AM EST
|By NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press
Catholic religious orders from around the world apologized Tuesday for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family-like communities blinded them to sexual abuse and led to misplaced loyalties, denial and cover-ups.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 9:02 AM EST
A German court has ruled that a dog owner isn't fit to carry a firearms license after his dog shot him with a rifle.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 7:39 AM EST
|By The Associated Press
Chanel's iconic couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, whose accomplished designs as well as trademark white ponytail, high starched collars and dark enigmatic glasses dominated high fashion for the last 50 years, has died.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2019 at 11:50 AM EST
|By CNN
A trend is starting in small Italian communities to get more people to move there!
Updated: Dec. 3, 2018 at 1:32 PM EST
|By TIA GOLDENBERG, Associated Press
A Saudi dissident has filed a lawsuit against an Israeli surveillance company, claiming its sophisticated spyware targeted him and helped lead to the killing of his friend, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2018 at 9:56 PM EST
|By CNN
The tit-for-tat trade war between the U.S. and China appears to be moving forward.