U.S. meteorologists say an El Nino has formed.

The opening of a Canadian-U_S_ bridge across the Detroit River that President Donald Trump previously threatened to block has been delayed due to “outstanding issues.”.

Israel’s Supreme Court is considering whether to extend the detention of a prominent Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, who was seized 17 months ago in Gaza.

The European Central Bank on Thursday became the first major central bank to raise interest rates in response to the Iran war.

President Donald Trump said the U_S_ would hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” threatening in a social media post to “assume total control” of Iran’s oil and gas industries, including the key Kharg Island, in the “not too distant future.”.

U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey has resigned because he says the government isn't willing to spend enough on the military at a time of rising threats.

The future of "Doctor Who” is uncertain after the BBC canceled a planned Christmas special.

Authorities say rescuers have recovered the remains of all 22 soldiers aboard a military helicopter that crashed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir the previous day.

French singer and actor Patrick Bruel faces preliminary charges of rape, attempted rape, sexual assault, and harassment involving several women between 2008 and 2019.

A court in Thailand has sentenced two Uyghur men to death for a 2015 bombing at Bangkok's Erawan shrine.

Chandelier and lamps reminiscent of “Harry Potter” or “Titanic” have been installed in Mexico City's busy Hidalgo metro station.

Pope Leo XIV has traveled to the Canary Islands, an epicenter of the European migration debate.

French and Swiss authorities are imposing pandemic-like border restrictions as the G7 summit begins.

Foreign workers building a sprawling $350 million American Consulate in Milan say they were paid less than $2 an hour after being promised fair wages.

President Donald Trump says the U_S_ will hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT,” and threatens in a social media post to “assume total control” of Iran’s oil and gas industries, including the key Kharg Island, in the “not too distant future.”.

The mayor of a quake-hit southern Philippine town is pleading for air force helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in places isolated by landslides.

About 75,000 voters in northwest England are about to make a significant decision.

Hostilities between the U.S. and Iran have escalated, with Iran retaliating against U.S. air and cruise missile strikes.

Markets on Wall Street were poised to open with strong gains following another sell-off of artificial-intelligence stocks that dragged U.S. markets sharply lower.

A reactor at the world’s largest nuclear power plant in Japan has resumed operations.

Two leading House Republicans are meeting with Taiwan’s opposition leader as she travels to Washington this week.

Saudi Arabia has ended its five-year ban on Lebanese imports, a significant move to rebuild relations between Lebanon and Gulf countries.

Longtime Associated Press journalist David Briscoe has died at 82.

New research shows that extreme floods in coastal areas are becoming more common as climate change causes sea levels to rise.

With the World Cup about to begin, heavily armed police and National Guard officers are patrolling the streets of Guadalajara.

Laurence Olivier, arguably Britain's greatest stage actor, has been honored with a plaque at his childhood home in London.

Dozens of motorcycle taxi drivers have joined an Ebola awareness caravan in eastern Congo.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block may take longer to open than anticipated.

In Brazil, home of soccer-mad fans and the five-time world champions, the only way to watch all 104 games of the World Cup will be through the streaming platform anchored by a digital influencer.

The U.N. atomic watchdog's board has demanding that Iran fully cooperate with the agency and provide complete information about its nuclear material.

Scientists have unearthed marine communities thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard.

A massive underground detector aimed at understanding the mysterious ghost particles in our universe has released its first major findings.

Keith Urban didn't set out to record a yacht rock covers album.

The U.S. has launched airstrikes against Iran, and President Donald Trump says more are coming, as Tehran fired back at countries in the region.

Pakistan's military says an army MI-17 helicopter has crashed because of a technical fault in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

The U.S. State Department says an American diplomat assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, the biggest city in Myanmar, has been found dead.

Amnesty International has accused Israel of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank.

A series of long-range Ukrainian attacks hit targets deep inside Russia, part of Kyiv’s efforts to raise the costs of the war for the Kremlin by striking energy facilities and military industries.

Taiwan's military has sent rockets in China's direction from “shoot and scoot” launchers in a demonstration of how it might defend itself against an attack.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated the Sagrada Familia Basilica as a masterpiece of “stones, colors and light.”.

Police have used water cannons on protesters in Northern Ireland after violence erupted a second night over a stabbing in Belfast.

Omar Artan, the soccer referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States for the World Cup tournament, has returned home to a hero's welcome by supporters and officials.

Hong Kong authorities have charged seven people and two companies with offenses including manslaughter and conspiracy to defraud over the city's deadliest fire in decades.

Mexico City welcomes the world with the opening ceremonies of the FIFA World Cup on Thursday, but social tensions are rising.

Aftershocks are rocking the southern Philippines days after a powerful earthquake that left at least 45 people dead and 17 others missing.

At least 12 people are dead and nine were more injured in a mass shooting in a Johannesburg suburb.

Another sell-off for artificial-intelligence stocks dragged the U.S. market sharply lower.

The unique grandeur of the Sagrada Familia means that even those who work and worship at Barcelona’s world famous basilica every day can still be surprised with some fresh wonder.

For decades, Israel has worked to expand the Jewish presence in annexed east Jerusalem.

The United States launched a second round of airstrikes on Iran and Iran has fired back at Gulf States after President Donald Trump warned that Tehran would “pay the price” for stalled negotiations.

Pakistan has launched new airstrikes on Afghanistan, ending a month of calm and escalating what Islamabad previously called “open war” between the neighbors.

Paraguayan fans are eager to see their national soccer team’s long-awaited return to the World Cup in the country they now call home.

A group of more than 130 people in Barcelona gave a unique welcome to Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday night by forming a human tower.

Colombia has enacted a law aimed at preventing cattle linked to deforestation from entering beef supply chains by connecting livestock traceability, land ownership and forest monitoring systems.

The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa.

Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba.

Pope Leo XIV is presiding over a youth rally in Barcelona.

Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella is urging prosecutors to investigate possible voter coercion by rebel groups in favor of governing party candidate Iván Cepeda.

A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May.

A certain dam-building rodent is taking center stage in a World Cup-themed contest in Toronto.

The gap between Peru's presidential candidates has narrowed to less than 20,000 votes with 96% of ballots counted after Sunday's runoff.

After nearly four years away from professional tennis, Serena Williams has made a winning return at Queen’s Club.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says a controversial luxury resort development linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will move forward despite growing protests.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon.

Christian religious leaders in the Lebanese city of Tyre have urged swift international and local action to prevent Israeli attacks on the Christian district.

Pope Leo XIV has stirred up cultural debates in Spain during his visit to Barcelona.

The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.

A violent crackdown by Afghan authorities on demonstrators in western Afghanistan has left at least three people injured, eyewitnesses say.

U.K. leaders have called for calm after the arrest of a Sudanese man accused of a stabbing in Belfast sparked anti-immigration protests.

The World Cup referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States after arriving in Miami and subsequently dropped from the tournament by FIFA had been set to make history for his country.

The World Cup is offering the 16 host cities a chance to take action against one of the biggest problems they face — homelessness.

The Iranian soccer federation claims FIFA has revoked its ticket allocation for fans at the team’s three World Cup games in the United States.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders at summit in Estonia amid tensions over Ukrainian drones straying into the region.

At least 100 people have died from Ebola less than a month after authorities declared an outbreak of the disease in eastern Congo.

Dubbed "Leonardo's Ferry," a cable-guided vessel offers commuters a peaceful five-minute ride across northern Italy's Adda River.

Survivors including health and aid workers recall their experiences and lessons during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

Pope Leo XIV will bridge 1,000 years of church history Wednesday when he visits a medieval monastery on a mountaintop that local Catholics consider sacred and then celebrates Mass at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia Basilica.

For more than two years, hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza and Lebanon have lived in dread of Avichay Adraee’s next social media post.

The U.S. military launched airstrikes and Iran retaliated following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.

Rescuers are searching ruined buildings in the southern Philippines to ensure no one was still trapped a day after the strongest earthquake to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced more than 32,000.

Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools from the next academic year as part of a broad reversal on the use of screens in classrooms.

Another sudden reversal for high-flying artificial-intelligence stocks sent Wall Street reeling.

China has reported that its exports picked up pace in May, rising 19.4% from a year earlier.

Ex-rugby league international Kane Evans has come out as gay, becoming the first high-level player in Australia to do so in decades.

The embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has been suspended from his duties after the court’s oversight body referred Karim Khan for disciplinary proceedings.

The Pentagon has added several prominent Chinese businesses to its list of Chinese military companies.

Somali referee Omar Artan won’t officiate in the World Cup after being denied entry into the United States.

The State Department will soon offer a “premium” expedited service for foreigners seeking business or tourist visas that will set applicants back $750 on top of the basic processing fee of $185.

War-weary Israelis fell back on familiar routines after Israel and Iran traded fire for the first time since a ceasefire was reached in April.

Peru's presidential runoff has left the country without a clear winner.

The Vatican says that Pope Leo XIV has met with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis.

A pop-up art show featuring contemporary works is set to open at the German president's official residency this week before renovations begin.

President Donald Trump, a longtime New York Knicks fan, has confirmed that he would attend the first NBA Finals game in New York since 1999.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino recently addressed U.S. city leaders, joking about soccer "conquering" America as the World Cup approaches.

Ukrainian forces have struck oil facilities in Russia and occupied Ukraine as part of their campaign to impose economic costs on Moscow.

Authorities have raced to slow the Ebola disease outbreak in Congo with strict measures, including by limiting public gatherings and enforcing social distancing.

Spain's lawmakers have given Pope Leo XIV a lengthy standing ovation after his historic address to parliament.

Tropical Storm Boris has formed and is expected to bring heavy rain to parts of southern Mexico's Pacific coast.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has claimed victory in a general election seen as a test of Russia’s influence.

Israel and Iran have exchanged fire, marking the first such incident since a ceasefire two months ago.