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Pakistan's military says a roadside bomb has struck a security forces convoy in northwestern Pakistan, killing six soldiers.

Emergency services are responding to a suspected fatal shark attack off a beach in the Australian west coast city of Perth.

Iran says it has struck an oil tanker trying to transit the Strait of Hormuz.

Russians have begun three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election.

Authorities have called off the search for survivors after a ferry sank off Vanuatu, leaving 39 people presumed dead.

A deadly building collapse in Gaza has highlighted ongoing hardships for Palestinians nearly a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Malaysia’s king has granted former Prime Minister Najib Razak a rare royal clemency, allowing him to serve the rest of his prison term under house arrest.

Las Vegas' Jackie Young scored 22 points in the first quarter, and the Aces rolled to a 114-77 victory over the Storm on Thursday night.

The frictions in Russia’s wartime economy are growing, as massive military spending balloons the budget deficit.

As part of a lawsuit, the workers have asked a federal court to stop any plans to engrave the building with President Trump’s name.

President Donald Trump is using a controversial campaign ad from 1988 to criticize Democrats on crime.

In-person voting for this year’s midterm elections is beginning, ushering in the final six weeks for Americans to decide who they trust to lead Congress through a cost-of-living crisis, a prolonged war in Iran and other pressing issues.

In the days after Hurricane Lowell, official asked tourists to stay away from Kauai to let island residents recover and responders clean up.

A Customs and Border Protection agent at a Chicago airport was accused of assaulting and threatening four women, all of Chinese descent, at hotel rooms in 2022.

The State Department said Thursday that the Trump administration was moving forward with the sale of 48 advanced F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

Asian shares are mostly up, as markets get a lift after Wall Street rallies to its best day in six weeks.

Japan’s central bank has raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year-high.

A federal judge has struck down a 2025 order from the Trump administration that cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money.

Johannesburg is struggling with a deepening waste crisis marked by unreliable collections, rapidly shrinking landfill space and a rise in illegal dumping.

This is the second arrest linked to the fire, which authorities say was started by fireworks shot from a moving truck.

Indonesia is welcoming its first aircraft carrier, the former Italian Navy vessel ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi, marking a major step in President Prabowo Subianto’s military modernization drive.

Virginia’s attorney general says the Department of Homeland Security may have violated several state election laws following a whistleblower report.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, will dismantle the Large Hadron Collider, which helped discover the so-called God Particle, in order to build a more powerful particle accelerator.

Anthropic has announced that its AI model, Claude, is significantly aiding in the development of building its successor.

Never has Jaylen Thomas’ athleticism been more apparent than on Saturday when the WSU safety played so well he was named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week.

He also said there are "practical engineering problems" the industry can focus on to continue to improve and safeguard the technology.

The United Nations’ top official acknowledges the world is deeply divided and the U.N.’s most powerful body is paralyzed when it comes to ending conflicts.

MUAR, Malaysia (AP) — Goh Khuay Par has spent more than five decades making traditional Chinese coffins called Mei Hua in Malaysia, carrying on a family craft passed down through three generations.

Goh Khuay Par has spent more than five decades making traditional Chinese coffins by hand in Malaysia, carrying on a family craft passed down through three generations.

A Louisiana jury has convicted a woman of negligent homicide in the death of a television reporter who had been visiting New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl.

Prize-winning author Phil Klay has been named the new president of PEN America.

Seattle is where many life milestones have happened for Seahawks quarterback Drew Lock, but playing well in these few starts could mean moving if it goes well.

Mayor Katie Wilson would not say why she thought the city's emergency alert system was not used after the Bite of Seattle mass shooting, an event she said "absolutely" merited an alert.

A block of Ninth Avenue can’t reopen until the colorful design is gone.

The move was widely expected, with financial markets ascribing over 90% odds to an increase before the gathering.

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Amazon is partner of and investor in leading AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic.

The federal Education Freedom Tax Credit program will be available to taxpayers in states that opt in.

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Representative María Elvira Salazar won re-election by 20 percentage points in 2024.

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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warns that Russia is planning hybrid strikes with drones and rockets on European countries supporting Ukraine.

Tensions are mounting between the Pentagon and Congress over the flow of information to lawmakers about the U.S. military’s priorities.

Images captured through the windows of Air Force One showed President Trump reviewing a poster with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.”

The investigation into conduct within Bill Belichick's football program at North Carolina is complete and now includes his son's exit.

The Big Ten released its men’s basketball schedule and for the second straight season, the Huskies will need to survive a brutal stretch in January.

Washington's depleted wide receiver group will only be down one starter against Eastern Washington, as coach Jedd Fisch announced Rashid Williams is available Saturday.

A New Hampshire judge has dismissed Pamela Smart's latest petition for a new trial.