Emergency services tents stand in front of the stage in Solingen city center, Germany, Saturday Aug. 24, 2024, after three people were killed and at least eight people were wounded in a knife attack Friday night at the festival. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP) SOLINGEN, Germany (AP) — Special...
Margaret Maughan, Britain's first Paralympic gold medalist, lights the Paralympic flame during the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Paralympics in London, on Aug. 29, 2012. The flame will be lit on Saturday Aug. 24, 2024 in Stoke Mandeville, a village northwest of London and will then travel to France...
A worker climbs aboard a locomotive at a CPKC rail yard Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) TORONTO (AP) — Both of Canada’s major freight railroads have come to a full stop because of a contract dispute with their workers, an impasse that could bring...
Relatives of the victims killed in a fire triggered by an explosion at the Escientia Advanced Sciences Private Ltd., a pharmaceutical company, sit outside the factory, in Atchutapuram, Andhra Pradesh state, India, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo) HYDERABAD, India (AP) — A big explosion...
CHICAGO (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris closes out the Democratic National Convention Thursday night when she accepts her party's historic presidential nomination and seizes one of her few remaining opportunities to appeal to an audience of millions. Harris will lay out her vision for the...
Courtesy of Botswana Government GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana says one of the largest diamonds ever found has been unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show on Thursday. The Botswana government believes the huge 2,492-carat stone is the second-biggest ever brought out of a...
TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman, became the world’s oldest living person at age 116, following the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Guinness World Records. This photo provided by the city of Ashiya shows Tomiko Itooka, being celebrated for her 116th birthday at...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former babysitter pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday for the 2019 death of a man she was accused of disabling as an infant 40 years ago and was sentenced to three years in prison, finally admitting that she hit him numerous times. Terry McKirchy, who pleaded...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreigners from Asia who use the country as a launching point to migrate to the United States and Canada, the justice ministry’s press office said Wednesday. FILE - The Integration border bridge connects Assis,...
MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow came under one of the largest attacks by Ukrainian drones since the start of fighting in 2022, Russian authorities reported Wednesday, saying they destroyed all of those headed toward the country's capital. Ukrainian serviceman of 148th separate artillery brigade of the Air...
PORTICELLO, Sicily (AP) — Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of five passengers Wednesday, leaving one still missing as questions intensified about why the vessel sank so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed. Scuba divers of the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R, Front) inspects Israeli troops in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on July 18, 2024. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout via Xinhua) JERUSALEM (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told hostage families on Tuesday that he is...
