In this Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the aftermath of a highway accident is seen in Lanzhou in northwestern China's Gansu province. Chen Bin/Xinhua via AP BEIJING -- Authorities in China said Saturday that…
SAYULA, Mexico -- Thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan through southern Mexico had their brief hopes of reaching the country's capital on Saturday dashed after the governor of Veracruz state pulled an offer of dozens of buses…
In food-obsessed Singapore, being a picky eater isn't a character flaw. It's a national pastime. Nowhere is that passion more on display than at the city's open-air food markets, called hawker centers, where vendors spend decades perfecting one or two…
TEHRAN, Iran — President Trump announced he is reimposing all sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the nuclear deal. Eight countries will be allowed to continue buying Iran's oil. But the new measures are expected to hit Iranians…
Nigerian soldiers surround the dead bodies of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria following violent clashes in Abuja, on Oct. 29, 2018. Demonstrators were protesting against the imprisonment of a Shiite cleric. Sodiq Adelakun / AFP/Getty Images The Nigerian…
ANKARA, Turkey — The order to kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi came from the highest level of the Saudi government, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, adding that the international community had the responsibility to "reveal the puppet masters"…
ISLAMABAD -- The release of a Christian woman in Pakistan, acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, was delayed Friday after authorities agreed to bar her from flying abroad following talks with radical Islamists who want her…
DONAJI, Mexico -- After three grueling weeks walking along highways and hitching rides in pickups and flatbed trucks, thousands of Central American migrants traveling in a caravan through southern Mexico learned Friday that they would soon be leapfrogging ahead to…
In this Sept. 27, 2018, photo Graham Morant leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane. Darren England / AP CANBERRA, Australia -- A self-styled preacher who wanted to claim his wife's life insurance was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in…
Last Updated Nov 2, 2018 3:11 PM EDT TEHRAN, Iran -- As a result of the United States pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, the Trump administration is announcing that all American sanctions on the country that had been lifted will…
ABS, Yemen -- Yahia Hussein has already lost a 5-month-old son who wasted away and died as they fled their village in northern Yemen. Now living in a camp for the displaced, he is running out of ways to feed…
Last Updated Nov 2, 2018 8:48 AM EDT BEIJING -- Police say a brawl between a passenger and a bus driver led to the bus plunging off a bridge in southwestern China Sunday. All 15 people on board are presumed…
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- New details about the crashed Lion Air jet's previous flight cast more doubt on the Indonesian airline's claim to have fixed technical problems, as hundreds of personnel searched the sea for a fifth day Friday for victims…
File photo: Indonesia President Joko Widodo talks to Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir at presidential palace in Bogor, Indonesia, October 22, 2018. REUTERS Jakarta has filed an official protest with Saudi Arabia after the oil-rich kingdom executed…
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia aims to remove all asylum seeker children from Nauru within two months as concerns escalate about their deteriorating health after languishing on the tiny Pacific atoll nation for up to five years. Cabinet ministers said Thursday,…
The Earth's oceans have absorbed more heat than previously believed, according to a study published this week in Nature, a scientific journal. Researchers found that the oceans absorbed 60 percent more each year between 1991 and 2016 than was thought. "Imagine…
JOHANNESBURG — As migration rises worldwide, so has its toll: The tens of thousands of people who die or simply disappear during their journeys. Barely counted in life, these migrants rarely register in death — almost as if they never lived…
Divers leave to make a dive at a search area for Lion Air flight in waters off Indonesia on October 31, 2018 EDGAR SU / REUTERS Last Updated Nov 1, 2018 2:48 AM EDT JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Divers on Thursday…
Last Updated Oct 31, 2018 3:13 PM EDT Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "strangled" as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and his body was then "cut into pieces" under a "premeditated plan," Turkey's chief prosecutor said in…
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A massive search effort has identified the possible seabed location of the crashed Lion Air jet, Indonesia's military chief said Wednesday, as Indonesian TV broadcast a smartphone video of passengers boarding Flight 610, its mundane details transformed…
KEVADIYA, India -- India's prime minister on Wednesday unveiled a towering bronze statue of Sardar Vallabbhai Patel, a key independence leader and the country's first home minister after British colonialists left in 1947. At 597 feet, it is reportedly the…
VATICAN CITY -- Lawyers for the family of a 15-year-old girl who went missing in 1983 say they are pressing Italian prosecutors and the Vatican for more details regarding human bones found near the Holy See's embassy in Rome. Laura…
Pakistani police officers stand guard outside nation's supreme court, in Islamabad, on October 31, 2018; the court acquitted a Christian woman who'd been on death row since 2010 for insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad; the court ordered authorities to free Asia…
Jo Morgan speaks with the media after surviving an avalanche on a New Zealand mountain. WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A well-known adventurer dug herself out of an avalanche on a New Zealand mountain Wednesday morning, while two guides climbing with…