PADANG, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for across the region. The latest figure came as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually as part of an agreement reached by its leaders, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday. Bessent said China will start by purchasing 12 million metric tons of soybeans from the U.S. between now...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesting the direction of the country under President Donald Trump, people will gather Saturday in the nation’s capital and communities across the U.S. for “ No Kings ” demonstrations — what the president 's Republican Party is calling “Hate America” rallies....
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on world leaders to show responsibility as he urged the international community to focus on the multitudes across the globe who face hunger, wars and misery. Addressing the World Food Day global ceremony that also marked the 80th anniversary of the U.N....
Scientists say four billion people, about half the world 's population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025. The extreme heat caused illness, death, crop losses, and strained energy and health care systems,...
HANDS ON These students learn the important job skill of creative thinking in their high school visual art classes (Photo Business Wire) What sets job candidates apart from one another or from artificial intelligence (AI) in the workforce? A report by the World Economic Forum noted that...
Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Chinese architect Liu Jiakun interacts with a scale model of the West Village project at his office in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan province on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Liu...
By RAF CASERT and VIRGINIA MAYO ENTHRONED MADONNA ADORNED BY SAINTS 222x160 inches, oil on canvas When an iconic painting is in need of restoration, it is usually taken to a studio to be worked on in seclusion. In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the...
A school girl with an umbrella rides on her bicycle to school during a monsoon rain as clouds hover over the sky on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, June 20, 2024 (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File) BENGALURU, India (AP) — For nearly four years, India's government pushed an initiative to get...
DAVID AND JONATHAN Rembrandt's painting of King David and Jonathan on display at the Hermitage Museum in Russia For the idea of love, biblical Hebrew has precious few synonyms. Yet the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation of love: the love of a man for a woman, the love of...
“We are living apocalyptically.” The philosopher Bruno Latour uttered those words in an interview discussing the 2018 California wildfires. His comments ring all the more true in 2025, as residents of the Los Angeles area grapple with the horror and despair of the deadly wildfires...
K-pop boy band GOT7 member Jackson Wang’s “Magic Man” has been named among the top 10 albums of 2022. The top 10 albums of 2022 were selected by AP’s entertainment journalists. Jackson Wang (Twitter) “With an incisive, cohesive sound that harks back to ’90s rock mixed with ’80s...
