A large tornado ripped through New Orleans on Tuesday, killing at least one person, destroying homes and knocking down power lines, media reported, in another setback for area that has yet to fully...

Rescue workers scoured a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball. No survivors...

The Dutch publisher of a discredited cold case investigation into the betrayal of teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank said Tuesday it was recalling the book following a critical report on its findings. ...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny urged his supporters to show their opposition to the Russian government after a court sentenced him to nine years in prison on Tuesday for fraud and contempt. ...

Even though only a small percentage of Walt Disney Co. workers participated in a walkout Tuesday, organizers felt they had won a moral victory with the company issuing a statement denouncing the anti-...

Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defence so dogged that it is stoking fears Russi...

In 1992, when the first exoplanet discovery was announced by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail, no one could have imagined that only 30 years later thousands of exoplanets would be known to humanity...

A knife-wielding man on Tuesday killed four people and seriously wounded two others in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba before he was shot dead by armed residents, police said.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 for her second time and will not accompany President Joe Biden to Europe for meetings on Russia's invasion ...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, in the first day of questioning from senators, forcefully defended herself from accusations from at least two Republicans that she handed out lenient ...

Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead as families struggle with funeral arrangements ami...

U.S. companies would be required to disclose the greenhouse gas emissions they produce and how climate risk affects their business under new rules proposed Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commis...

Associated Press video journalist Mstyslav Chernov and photographer Evgeniy Maloletka arrived in Mariupol, Ukraine, in the early hours of Feb. 24. An hour later, Russia's war on its neighbour started....

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people aboard crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, setting off a forest fire visible from space, in the country's worst air disaste...

Dozens of well-known leaders in Jamaica including professors and politicians are demanding an apology and slavery reparations as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare for a trip to the former Brit...

The creators of the popular online video game Fortnite have raised more than $36 million US in a single day, after promising to send all the money raised from sales of a new version of the game to sup...

Violent repression of the largely Muslim Rohingya population in Myanmar amounts to genocide, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, a declaration intended to both generate international p...

Hong Kong's leader says the city will lift flight bans on nine countries including Canada and the U.S. as of April 1 and reduce quarantine time for travellers arriving in the city as coronavirus infec...

Kanye West was told Friday that he is not allowed to perform at the Grammys this year, a representative for the musician has confirmed to The Associated Press.