A tense international stalemate in the world of chess could end with the first American world champion since Bobby Fischer in 1972. Fabiano Caruana, who was born in Miami and raised in Brooklyn, is taking on Magnus Carlsen of Norway…
Dr. Lieve Thienpont poses during an interview in Ghent, Belgium, on June 29, 2017. Maria Cheng / AP LONDON — Belgian officials are investigating whether doctors improperly euthanized a woman with autism, the first criminal investigation in a euthanasia case since…
Women leaders from around the world are gathering in Reykjavik, Iceland this week to discuss a range of issues including tech, finance and leadership. Conversations will happen throughout the day on Tuesday, November 27, and Wednesday, November 28. How will…
MOSCOW -- Russia's coast guard opened fire on and seized three of Ukraine's vessels Sunday, wounding two crew members, after a tense standoff in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula, the Ukrainian navy said. Russia blamed Ukraine for provoking…
British academic Matthew Hedges, who has been jailed for spying in the UAE, is seen in this undated photo supplied on November 23, 2018 by his wife Daniela Tejada. HANDOUT/REUTERS ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- The United Arab Emirates…
More than 100 people were taken to hospitals in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, after a suspected poison gas attack over the weekend. As President Bashar Assad's regime traded blame for the alleged attack with anti-government rebels, Russian warplanes backing Assad's…
A supplied image shows around 145 pilot whales that died in a mass stranding on a beach on Stewart Island, located south of New Zealand's South Island, Nov. 25, 2018. New Zealand Department of Conservation/Handout via Reuters WELLINGTON, New Zealand…
MOSCOW — Russia's coast guard opened fire on and seized three of Ukraine's vessels Sunday, wounding two crew members, after a tense standoff in the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula, the Ukrainian navy said. Russia blamed Ukraine for provoking…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, said Sunday that he was confident the Senate will pass a resolution to pull back any kind of U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, given the CIA's conclusion that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
It looks easy when Edmund de Waal does it, forming in the language of his fingers a kind of tactile poetry. "There's this lovely feeling for me of the sort of breathing vessel, which is changing all the time," he…
BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders on Sunday approved an agreement on Britain's departure next year — the first time a member country will have left the 28-nation bloc. It took leaders a matter of minutes at a summit in Brussels…
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The U.S. military said Saturday that a service member has been killed in Afghanistan, while in a separate incident two Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter failed to land properly. The brief U.S. military statement did not provide…
BRUSSELS -- The European Union removed the last major obstacle to sealing an agreement on Brexit after Spain said it had reached a deal Saturday with Britain over Gibraltar on the eve of a summit where EU leaders will sign off…
NEW DELHI -- Police said Saturday that they have mapped the area of a remote Indian island where tribespeople were seen burying the body of an American adventurer and Christian missionary after allegedly killing him with arrows this month. During…
Last Updated Nov 24, 2018 1:38 PM EST PARIS -- French police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris on Saturday as thousands gathered in the capital and staged road blockades across the nation to vent anger…
BEIRUT -- U.S. and British officials mourned the loss a Syrian anti-government activist and radio host seen as a "symbol" of the uprising who was shot dead along with his colleague by unidentified gunmen in a rebel-held area in the…
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is one of the most distinctive buildings in the world, but it's losing part of what made it famous. Engineers have been at work for about two decades to stop the famed Tuscan bell tower…
LONDON -- Like many a couple before them, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving to the suburbs ahead of the anticipated birth of their first child. Officials said Saturday that Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will…
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea said Saturday that the United Nations Security Council granted an exemption to sanctions that will allow surveys on North Korean railroad sections that would connect North and South Korea and revamp the North's failing…
The United States Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Saturday it had received "credible and specific" information regarding a possible terrorist threat against U.S. government facilities in country's capital city. The security alert from the U.S. Embassy in…
BERLIN -- A 95-year-old man has been charged with more than 36,000 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations that he served as a guard at the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp, Berlin prosecutors said Friday. Hans Werner H.,…
Last Updated Nov 23, 2018 3:37 PM EST NEW YORK -- Earth's climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities, according to a long-awaited report released Friday…
Saudi Arabia isn't a place that likes to share its secrets. The conservative Islamic kingdom is veiled, its government opaque – a difficult place to investigate the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who dared to criticize this…
Turkey's foreign minister has criticized President Trump, saying the U.S. leader appears to want to "turn a blind eye" to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. Mevlut Cavusoglu also described many…