KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded deadly strikes overnight and on Saturday morning, killing 10 people and wounding several dozen more, officials on both sides said Saturday. The attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Istanbul for talks with Turkish...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran shooting down two American military jets marks an exceedingly rare assault for the U.S. that has not happened in more than 20 years and shows the Islamic Republic 's continued ability to hit back despite President Donald Trump asserting it has been "completely...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, carrying a tall, lit candle through a darkened and silent St. Peter 's Basilica, ushered in Christianity 's most joyous celebration with his first Easter vigil service as pontiff Saturday night, urging that Easter would bring harmony and peace to a...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran to open the crucial Strait of Hormuz by his Monday deadline and Tehran called his threat "unbalanced and foolish." The search for a missing U.S. military pilot continued Saturday in a remote part of the Islamic Republic. Trump has...
For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us? It 's a question that can produce some, well, uncomfortable answers if you happen to be an earthling. “If I were looking at Earth from...
An argument over their stores ' locations led a 57-year-old vendor to stab his fellow vendor with a box cutter in front of Tondo Church on Chacon Street in Tondo, Manila, on Friday, April 3. According to the Manila Police District (MPD), the suspect, identified as alias "Rey," and the...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced the arrest of a man caught stealing cables from a traffic light operated by the agency at the E. Rodriguez-Araneta intersection in Quezon City on Good Friday, April 3. Based on the police report, the suspect was caught by an MMDA site...
Several houses were razed in a fire that struck Del Pilar Street in Barangay 882, Santa Ana, Manila, on Saturday, April 4. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the blaze started at around 8:31 a.m. and was quickly raised to the second alarm at 8:34 a.m. Firefighters said most of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs. The sizable increase for the Pentagon, some...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon . NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century ....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran shot down two U.S. military planes in separate attacks Friday, with one service member rescued and at least one missing, in a dramatic escalation since the war began nearly five weeks ago. It was the first time U.S. aircraft have been downed in the conflict and came...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV carried a wooden cross for all of the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum on his first Good Friday as pontiff, marking the first time in decades that a pope carried the cross to every station. “I think it will be an important sign because of...
