Fifty-six-year-old Steve Sparkes and his rowing partner Mick Dawson are on an epic journey. They've been making their way across the Pacific for the past three months and are now battling powerful winds and waves from Lane, which weakened Friday…
DUBLIN -- Pope Francis arrived Saturday in Ireland, ground zero of the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis, with the institution under fire across the globe for its systemic failures to protect children from rapists or to punish bishops who hid the…
ROME -- Mount Etna in Sicily has roared back into spectacular volcanic action, sending up plumes of ash and spewing lava. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) says that the volcano, which initially "re-awoke" in late July, sprang…
ROME -- Mount Etna in Sicily has roared back into spectacular volcanic action, sending up plumes of ash and spewing lava. Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) says that the volcano, which initially "re-awoke" in late July, sprang…
WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration has decided to cut more than $200 million in bilateral aid to the Palestinians, following a review of the funding for projects in the West Bank and Gaza, the State Department said Friday. The department…
A picture taken on August 24, 2018 shows an empty street in Frohnsdorf, near Treuenbrietzen, northeastern Germany, after the village was evacuated. John Macdougall/AFP/Getty Images BERLIN -- Firefighters struggled Friday to tame a wildfire southwest of Berlin but had to…
CAIRO — Tour operator Thomas Cook is evacuating all of its customers from a hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada after two Britons died there this week under unclear circumstances. The move came after John and Susan Cooper,…
Escalating tensions between Turkey and the U.S. are impacting the economies of other countries, including South Africa. The U.S. imposed sanctions on Turkey because an American pastor was being detained for accusations of espionage and terrorism. Andrew Brunson has since…
FILE PHOTO: A Congolese health worker administers Ebola vaccine to a woman who had contact with an Ebola sufferer in the village of Mangina in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, August 18, 2018. REUTERS The Ebola…
A prison van transporting Malaysian national Khaw Kim-sun, 53, who is accused of murdering his wife and daughter, leaves the High Court in Hong Kong on August 23, 2018. Philip Fong / AFP/Getty Images HONG KONG -- An anesthesiologist is…
FILE PHOTO: Alex Salmond is pictured in Broomhouse on May 18, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Getty Images Alex Salmond, the former nationalist leader who took Scotland to the brink of independence in 2014, has denied accusations of sexual misconduct which were…
This 2017 photo released by the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) shows a "maloca," or long house, in Vale do Javari, Amazonas state, Brazil. FUNAI via AP In the sprawling greenery of the Brazilian Amazon, near the border with Peru, a…
Incoming Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is congratulated by his new deputy Josh Frydenberg after a party meeting in Canberra, Australia August 24, 2018. DAVID GRAY / REUTERS Australia's ruling party has chosen Treasurer Scott Morrison to become the next…
President Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, will attend a military parade commemorating Ukraine's Independence Day on Friday, one day after he met in Geneva for what were apparently tense talks with his Russian counterpart, Nikolai Patrushev. Bolton will…
DUBLIN — Missouri's attorney general launched a statewide investigation Thursday into sex crimes within the Catholic Church. The probe follows an investigation in Pennsylvania that determined more than 300 priests had abused more than 1,000 children. This weekend, Pope Francis is visiting…
A girl goes nose-to-nose with a Neanderthal statue at a museum in Germany. Ancient DNA research is increasingly revealing the genetic links between modern humans and our extinct ancestors, including Neanderthals and Denisovans. Neanderthal Museum (Mettmann, Germany) BERLIN -- Scientists…
ESCONDIDO, Calif. – A new report from the International Rhino Foundation found three of the world's five rhino species could be lost within our lifetime. Perhaps no species is closer to extinction than the northern white rhino. There are only…
ESCONDIDO, Calif. – A new report from the International Rhino Foundation found three of the world's five rhino species could be lost within our lifetime. Perhaps no species is closer to extinction than the northern white rhino. There are only…
Pope Francis will arrive in Ireland this weekend for an international Catholic gathering amid intensifying scrutiny over the church's handling of sexual abuse by priests. The scandal forced two U.S. cardinals to cancel their trips. The pope asked for prayers…
French police secure a street after a man killed two persons and injured an other in a knife attack in Trappes, near Paris, according to French authorities, France, August 23, 2018. REUTERS TRAPPES, France -- A man with severe psychiatric…
FILE PHOTO: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses a media conference at the end of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on July 27, 2018. Getty Images LONDON -- South Africa accused United States President Donald Trump of sowing division Thursday…
A still photo from video posted on a militant website July 5, 2014, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first…
NEW YORK — A new report from the UN's nuclear watchdog expresses "grave concern" that North Korea is continuing to develop its nuclear program, despite the regime's commitment to work towards denuclearization following June's summit in Singapore. The International Atomic…
FILE PHOTO: Author Kevin Kwan poses at the premiere for "Crazy Rich Asians" in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 7, 2018. REUTERS SINGAPORE -- Singapore's government says the author of the book that inspired the hit film "Crazy Rich Asians"…
