This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows Venus taken from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction . But don't plan on seeing the linkup. The sight is extremely...
Ella Osama Abu Dagga, 25 days old, lies in a van after being pulled from the rubble following an Israeli army airstrike that killed her parents and brother in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga) KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — As rescuers dug through...
A woman enjoys a sunny and frosty day on the embankment of the South Harbour in Helsinki, Finland, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) HELSINKI (AP) — Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published...
People walk next to the Havis Amanda statue on the Market Square in the center of Helsinki, Finland, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) Finland was named the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published...
Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings traveling from Beit Hanoun to Jabaliya, a day after Israel's renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said Wednesday its troops retook part of a...
A Malaysian boy wipes his tears during a special prayer for the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at a church in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's government has given final approval for a...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks, during a joint press conference with Finland's President Alexander Stubb, at the Presidential Palace, in Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia agreed in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration's plan to require in-person identity checks for millions of new and existing recipients while simultaneously closing government offices has sparked a furor among lawmakers, advocacy groups and program recipients who are worried that the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House official, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that's been a longtime target of conservatives. Protestors gather...
Pope Francis (AP/File) ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said in a letter published Tuesday that his lengthy illness has helped make "more lucid" to him the absurdity of war, as his top deputy rejected any suggestion of resignation and Buckingham Palace announced plans for an upcoming audience with...
Elizabeth Salmon, the U.N. special rapporteur for North Korea's human rights, is seen in this file photo taken during her last visit to South Korea in September 2022. (Yonhap) By KWAK YEON-SOO Nearly 46 percent of North Koreans are undernourished, according to a recent U.N. report, as the...
Police will deploy about 14,000 riot police officers in Seoul on the day of President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment ruling by the Constitutional Court to respond to possible social unrest, police officials said Wednesday. Police officers conduct riot control training in this photo released by...
